by mtraphagen | Feb 2, 2013 | Google, Google+, Online marketing, SEO, Social Media
This past week I published what has become my most widely read and re-shared post ever, and in many ways I think my most important post ever: “Your Google Plus Network Is More Powerful Than You Know.” One paragraph of that social media influence...
by mtraphagen | Jan 28, 2013 | Google+, Online marketing, Social Media
Over the past few days I’ve had an interesting exchange with a young man who had sent me several unsolicited commercial messages via Google+ notifications. I had responded once before with a brief message informing him this was spam and that I was going to...
by mtraphagen | Jan 26, 2013 | Google+, Social Media, Twitter, YouTube & Video
Vine was the latest app craze, creating tons of buzz across social media this week. What is Vine? Vine is an iOS (iPhone & iPad) app created by Vine Labs and recently bought by Twitter. The tl;dr of the app is it’s Instagram for videos. Vine lets you quickly...
by mtraphagen | Jan 17, 2013 | Content Marketing, Google, Google+, SEO, Social Media
Are you one of us? Once, we were few. And we were lonely. We had Google+ powers far beyond those of “normal” users. Some called us mutants. Eventually, our shared condition drove us together, and we became the X-Persons of Google+, sworn to use our powers...
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+
When Google+ enthusiasts brag about their favorite social network, one of their top talking points is “no ads!” This has been fueled by a persistent belief among G+ users that Google+ leadership has promised to never have ads on the social network. But has...
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 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 20, 2012 | Content Marketing, Facebook, Google+, Infographics, Online marketing, Presentations, SEO, Social Media
Once upon a time there were SEOs and Social Media Managers. SEOs lived on a solid planet called Data and lived by a code called Measurable Results. Social Media Managers lived in a cloud world called Engagement. Though the two could see each other from afar, they had...
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