by Russ Jones | Dec 20, 2013 | Content Marketing, Google, Online marketing, SEO
Admit it – you and me and most everyone you know outsources some of their “SEO” content. It is the textual content that needs to be on pages to make sure there is enough context to a page otherwise filled with a product picture and a buy now button....
by mtraphagen | Dec 19, 2013 | Authorship & Author Rank, Content Marketing, Google, Google+, News, Online marketing, SEO
December 2013: Authorship in Search Results Gets Restricted UPDATE 21 January 2013: I have now published results of my study detailing who lost Google Authorship and why. UPDATE: While composing this post, Barry Schwartz of Search Engine Land reported that Google...
by mtraphagen | Nov 12, 2013 | Content Marketing, Google, Hive Digital, News, Online marketing, Presentations, SEO
At Pubcon this October, John Rampton of Search Engine Journal interviewed Russ Jones, CTO of Virante, about how to Penguin-proof a website. The Google Penguin algorithm update, which has now had several updates and refreshings, primarily goes after sites that have...
by mtraphagen | Nov 6, 2013 | Google, Hive Digital, News, Online marketing, Presentations, SEO, YouTube & Video
By Mark Traphagen At Pubcon in Las Vegas last month, Search Engine Journal conducted a video interview with Jacob Bohall, Vice President for Marketing for Virante Inc, on the topics of negative seo and link removals for Penguin penalty recovery. Here’s the video...
by mtraphagen | Oct 29, 2013 | Google, Google+, News, Social Media, YouTube & Video
My live tweets from today’s Google Plus Update live event. Google’s Vic Gundotra announced 18 major upgrades to Google+, centerend around Hangouts, photos, and videos. (Go to bottom of page for a Pinterest pinnable image of these tweets!) Hungry for more...
by mtraphagen | Oct 28, 2013 | Authorship & Author Rank, Content Marketing, Google, Google+, Online marketing, SEO, Social Media
Google Author Rank: The Sasquatch of SEO When it comes to the topic of Google Author Rank and whether it is a reality today, the True Believers are only slightly less fanatical than people convinced that the following are real: Sasquatch (Big Foot) UFO abductions The...
by mtraphagen | Oct 24, 2013 | Authorship & Author Rank, Content Marketing, Google, Google+, News, Online marketing, Presentations, SEO, Social Media, Twitter
After reading several live blog notes (here and even better here) on the keynote address by Google’s Matt Cutts at Pubcon 2013 yesterday, I was seeing intriguing hints that he had spoken about some topics near and dear to me. But since these were live...
by mtraphagen | Oct 9, 2013 | Content Marketing, Google, Google+, News, Online marketing, SEO, Social Media
Recently I posted on Google+ that we had discovered that the Google Plus Page Verification application page is now closed. In other words, they are no longer allowing Google+ Pages to apply for verification. Here’s how the page where you used to apply for Page...
by mtraphagen | Oct 9, 2013 | Google, Hive Digital, News, Online marketing, SEO
New Penguin Penalty Checker Site Assess Your Google Penalty Risk Penguin Analysis is a new site that can help you assess how at risk your site might be for a Google Penguin penalty. It’s the latest innovation from our awesome link removal experts at...
by Russ Jones | Sep 30, 2013 | Analytics, Free SEO Tools, Google, SEO
So, what are you doing right now. Link building? Stop it. Link removing? Stop it. Stop writing content, stop reading content, stop eating, sleeping, pooping, whatever it is you are doing and do this right now. As of writing this post, it is now September 30, 2013 and...
by mtraphagen | Sep 29, 2013 | Authorship & Author Rank, Content Marketing, Google, Google+, News, Online marketing, SEO, Social Media
UPDATE 7 October 2013: At SMX East last week, in the Google Authorship session, Google Webmaster Trends Analyst Pierre Farr also confirmed that Google Authorship is not a factor in ranking search results at the present time. Original Post: “We don’t use...
by mtraphagen | Sep 18, 2013 | Authorship & Author Rank, Google, Google+, Online marketing, SEO, Social Media
How and why do certain Google+ Plus posts in search results do better than others? That’s been a question at the front of my attention for almost two years now. Google obviuosly treats public Google+ posts differently from other social network posts. You may...
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