by mtraphagen | Mar 28, 2012 | Analytics, Google, Social Media
What did you do on Google last month? Now you can have a record. Google has made steady moves in recent times toward opening up more data to its regular (non-commercial) users. For example, the Google Dashboard displays basic information about all the Google products...
by mtraphagen | Mar 26, 2012 | Analytics, Facebook, Google, Google+, News, Online marketing, Paid Search, SEO, Social Media, Twitter
A weekly roundup of the most interesting and useful posts and articles on search / inbound marketing from the past week. Social Media & Content Marketing Facebook Adds News Feed Noise Reducer Facebook now auto-suggests adding “friends” with whom you...
by mtraphagen | Mar 26, 2012 | Google, Google+, Social Media
As search and social become more and more intertwined, it is more important than ever that you establish your personal brand online. A personal brand on the web means deciding what you want to be “about,” what you want to be known for or be a recognized...
by mtraphagen | Mar 21, 2012 | Google, SEO, Social Media
Google pretty much invented the algorithmic search engine result, the idea that the crowd intelligence of the web itself could do a better job of selecting the best content for any given search query, over human-curated indexes. This infographic helps you trace...
by mtraphagen | Mar 21, 2012 | Authorship & Author Rank, Google, Google+, Online marketing, Social Media
UPDATE: The beginning of this post talks about a Google search feature which no longer exists: the “People and Pages on Google+” box. For a period of time Google displayed this box for certain search queries, showing the top-ranked people or brand Pages...
by mtraphagen | Mar 19, 2012 | Analytics, Facebook, Google, Google+, News, Online marketing, Paid Search, SEO, Social Media, Twitter
A weekly roundup of the most interesting and useful posts and articles on search / inbound marketing from the past week. Social Media & Content Marketing Using Facebook Interest Lists to Improve EdgeRank Facebook recently introduced Interest Lists, which allow...
by mtraphagen | Mar 14, 2012 | Google, Google+, Social Media
By far the #1 question I get from people who have read my “How to Verify Your Google+ Brand Page with Google” post is “So will this get me that check mark next to my brand’s name?” Until now I had to answer…probably...
by mtraphagen | Mar 7, 2012 | Authorship & Author Rank, Google, Google+, Online marketing, SEO, Social Media
Or “How I Outranked Mari Smith for Her Own Post” I’ve been writing a lot lately about my new-found ability to high rank almost anything I post on Google+ on the first page of incognito Google search for long tail keywords that have search volume....
by mtraphagen | Mar 5, 2012 | Analytics, Facebook, Google, Google+, News, Online marketing, Paid Search, SEO, Social Media
A weekly roundup of the most interesting and useful posts and articles on search / inbound marketing from the past week. Social Media & Content Marketing What Women Want: 6 Lessons for Pinterest from 100K Visitors Through extensive testing, expert viral marketer...
by mtraphagen | Mar 1, 2012 | Google, SEO
A great infographic from Search Engine Land that explains the history and effects of the Google Panda update, a major change in some of the factors Google uses to determine search rankings. Used by permission of Search Engine Land. You may repost to your own site, as...
by mtraphagen | Feb 29, 2012 | Analytics, Google, Google+, SEO, Social Media
Yesterday I posted a dramatic example of how an influential Google+ profile combined with Google author verification linked to high-traffic web posts can result in a huge Google SEO power boost for Google+ posts in regular Google search, even for non-logged-in...
by mtraphagen | Feb 28, 2012 | Authorship & Author Rank, Google, Google+, SEO, Social Media
UPDATE 7 October 2013: I no longer believe that the ranking result I show below is the result of either Google Authorship or Author Rank. See “Google Authorship Not a Ranking Factor (Yet).” I now attribute it to the PageRank authority of my Google+...
