by pbuckley | Jan 16, 2013 | Content Marketing, Google, Online marketing, SEO
I’ve been doing SEO for a while, not since the stone-age of SEO, but as far back to remember when you could so easily game the system. That is now a lost world. In the not so distant past SEO’s could offer their clients a the equivalent of a diet pill. No...
by mtraphagen | Jan 10, 2013 | Authorship & Author Rank, Google, Google+, Social Media
Somebody at Google likes me. I swear, I’m not paying them anything! Back in June of 2012 I first posted about what I saw as a flaw in the way Google indexes Google+ posts that are re-shares of other users’ posts. Since at least the spring of that year...
by mtraphagen | Jan 8, 2013 | Content Marketing, Google, Google+, News, Online marketing, SEO, Social Media
According to Dan Petrovic of Dejan SEO, as of 5 January 2012 Google stopped following (for link juice purposes) links placed in posts on Google+. The primary link is still followed. This is the first link you put into a post on Google+ if you allow G+ to turn it into...
by mtraphagen | Dec 28, 2012 | Content Marketing, Google, Google+, News, Online marketing, Social Media
Beginning yesterday (27 December 2012), it appears that Google+ has been rolling out to brand Pages the ability to comment on, +1, and re-share posts from personal profiles of people who have not circled them. This is news because until now brand Pages had no ability...
by mtraphagen | Dec 21, 2012 | Google, Google+, Infographics, News, Social Media
Google+ celebrated nearing the end of its first full calendar year as a social network by publishing this infographic displaying highlights about the network achieved in 2012: The infographic covers the following highlights and achievements of Google Plus in 2012: The...
by mtraphagen | Dec 18, 2012 | Facebook, Google, Google+, News, Online marketing, Paid Search, Social Media
UPDATE 20 December 2012: The advertising option previewed in this post is now active and available to selected US Google+ brand pages in the US, according to this post by Google staffer Christen Oestlien. Google+ user Michelle Marie noticed the following tiny...
by pbuckley | Dec 12, 2012 | Google, SEO
There are a lot of SEO’s that think having a technical background makes you a better all-around SEO, and I’m one of them. With that said, Google took a step forward today in making one small fragment of technical SEO a little bit easier for the...
by mtraphagen | Dec 5, 2012 | Authorship & Author Rank, Google, Google+, Social Media
If you read me regularly or follow me on Google+, it’s no secret to you that I think Google Authorship is the hottest thing since meme images of velociraptors. Authorship is connecting your content from across the web to your Google+ profile. When you do so, you...
by mtraphagen | Nov 13, 2012 | Google, Google+, News, Online marketing, Social Media
According to Google+ Chief Architect Yonatan Zunger, Google+ will now send you notifications for new comments in large comment threads, but only when a new algorithm determines it is likely you’d want to see such notifications Google+ used to stop notifying you...
by mtraphagen | Nov 8, 2012 | Google, Internet Summit, SEO, Social Media
Search Engine Optimization in a “Post-SEO” World Melanie Phung – Director of New Media, PBS Search engines are in a constant battle against spam.] Shift from just keywords and links to many signals. New SEOs must be sophisticated digital strategists,...
by mtraphagen | Oct 26, 2012 | Google
Having problems with the wrong information in a Google Local Places Listing… We’ve haven’t done all the research, but wanted to post some thoughts just in case it helps someone out! You say “almost all data on the web” matches the...
by mtraphagen | Oct 25, 2012 | Authorship & Author Rank, Content Marketing, Google, Google+, Social Media
If you have attempted to set up Google Authorship for your online content (here’s how), you may have received a “Welcome to Google Authorship” email from Google that looks something like this: Google has been sending these out kind of randomly for a...
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