by mtraphagen | Mar 31, 2012 | Content Marketing, Google, Online marketing, Presentations, SEO, Social Media
From the presentation by Rand Fishkin of SEOMoz titled “F%S#! Link Building. Content Marketing FTW” on SlideShare. Rand Fishkin says content marketing has better ROI and far less risk than link building. Here are his top 10 tips to brilliant content...
by mtraphagen | Jan 10, 2012 | Authorship & Author Rank, Content Marketing, Google, Google+, SEO, Social Media
Today Google announced a change to the way it presents its search engine results that evoked breathless proclamations from the technorati like these: “Google+ could change the entire way we use the Web — and drive millions of Web sites who depend on Google...
by mtraphagen | Jan 8, 2012 | Authorship & Author Rank, Content Marketing, Google, Google+, SEO, Social Media
Could there be anything more cheering to an online author (especially one with a healthy ego like Yours Truly) than seeing this little gift from Google? Such “author rich snippet search results” are one of the benefits of connecting your online, original...
by mtraphagen | Nov 15, 2011 | Content Marketing, Google, Google+, SEO, Social Media
Anyone building a brand or business page on Google+ quickly comes to a rather unsettling realization: at no point in the process does Google do anything to check that you have any real connection to the brand name on your page. Anyone can create a Google+ Page with...
by mtraphagen | Aug 13, 2010 | Content Marketing
Apture is a free* plugin for your blog or site that lets you build links to external sources with one click. More importantly, it allows visitors to view the content of those links without leaving your page, increasing reader time-on-site and enhancing visitor...
by mtraphagen | Aug 10, 2010 | Content Marketing
It’s a no-brainer that including media brings life to any campaign. This is especially true in the hyperactive world of social media, where a constant barrage of posts vies for the attention of potential fans and followers. Of course, when it comes to...
by mtraphagen | May 1, 2009 | Content Marketing, SEO
From thekeywordacademy.com: Before we can talk about how to optimize the body text of the page you’re working on, we should probably define what body text is. To put it simply, body text is the text that you can see on a web page. Everything you can see on this post...