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...
by Russ Jones | Oct 18, 2012 | Content Marketing, Free SEO Tools, Google, Online marketing, SEO
Today Virante, Inc. launched nTopic, a content relevancy scoring API for Search Engine Optimization. Because there is nothing quite like it available in the world of SEO, we thought it would be appropriate to spend a little bit of time explaining what nTopic is and...
by pbuckley | Oct 17, 2012 | Google, Link Removal, News, SEO
Yesterday Matt Cutts announced the release of Google’s new link disavow tool at PubCon 2012 out in Las Vegas. The announcement was greeted with happiness, but it really doesn’t change too much of the equation. This tool is for site owners to use as a last...
by mtraphagen | Oct 16, 2012 | Google, News, Online marketing, SEO
Big announcement moments ago by +Matt Cutts at #Pubcon Las Vegas : Google is today introducing a backlink disavowal tool in Webmaster Tools to allow sites hit by manual ranking penalties to disavow bad backlinks they have been unable to remove. Matt Shared some tips...
by mtraphagen | Sep 13, 2012 | Authorship & Author Rank, Content Marketing, Google, Google+, SEO, Social Media
Join Virante’s +Mark Traphagen with co-guest panelists +AJ Kohn and +Bill Slawski for a Google+ Hangout On Air discussion of Rich Snippet search results and Google Authorship / Author Rank. The show was hosted by +Dan Petrovic and +Martin Reed of DejanSEO....
by mtraphagen | Sep 9, 2012 | Google, Google+, Social Media
If you’re a Lord of the Rings fan, you know the terrible torture that the Eye of Sauron imposed on poor Frodo. It made the ring he bore a heavy burden. Day and night he could feel the Eye calling out to him to surrender himself to the inevitable. If you’re...
by mtraphagen | Sep 7, 2012 | Content Marketing, Google, Google+, Online marketing, SEO, Social Media
Recently the Virante Search Marketing Google+ Page was given “verified name” status by Google+. The only visible change this makes is that now a check mark appears next to our name on our profile, as well as any appearances of our name in Google+ search....
by mtraphagen | Aug 30, 2012 | Authorship & Author Rank, Content Marketing, Google, Google+, SEO, Social Media
If you follow my writing here, on various other blogs, and on Google+, you know that I am a big fan of Google’s Authorship project, and that I do a great deal of thinking and research about it. But when you’ve got your nose deep into something, it’s...
by mtraphagen | Aug 28, 2012 | Authorship & Author Rank, Content Marketing, Google, Google+, News, Online marketing, SEO, Social Media, YouTube & Video
My friend and YouTube SEO Wizard +Ronnie Bincer alerted me to an option that Google has been offering on YouTube for a while now, but few know about: the ability to change your YouTube channel name to your Google+ profile name, and thereby connect the two more...
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