by mtraphagen | Feb 29, 2012 | Google+, Social Media
In a Google+ post, Google+ staffer +Pras Sarkar announced automatic Google+ comment spam filtering. Google will try to identify spammy comments on Google+ user posts. Potential spam is grayed out for the post creator and invisible to other readers, until the poster...
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+...
by mtraphagen | Feb 22, 2012 | Google, Google+, Social Media
Latest guest post at Windmill Networking by Virante Director of Social Media Marketing Mark Traphagen. Our moms and our kindergarten teachers told us again and again: “It’s nice to share!” But why? How does sharing make things better? Before long the smartest kids...
by mtraphagen | Feb 17, 2012 | Google, Google+, Social Media
Did you know you have a business card you hand out every day on Google+? Hover your mouse over any Google+ user’s name. You’ll see a popover box with their cover photo, profile image, their name, a link to add them to circles (or showing what circles you...
by mtraphagen | Feb 12, 2012 | Google, Google+, SEO, Social Media
I was reading social media news posts in an iPad app I’ve used every day for the past year, when it suddenly struck me. What I was doing at that moment just two years ago I would have been doing with a search engine. The app is Zite. It spiders out through my...
by mtraphagen | Feb 10, 2012 | Google+, Hive Digital, Social Media
Virante Director of Social Media Marketing +Mark Traphagen will be one of four panelists teaching over 30 Fortune 500 companies, major universities, and government entities about using Google+ for greater brand engagement and visibility in a webinar sponsored by...
by mtraphagen | Feb 6, 2012 | Google, Google+, Social Media
Update: This Google Plus Page Guide was updated 16 October 2013 to reflect changes to the Google+ interface. I miss my ’67 VW Bug. Armed with my grease-stained copy of the classic How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive: A Manual for the Compleat Idiot, I could fix...
by mtraphagen | Jan 31, 2012 | Google, Google+, SEO, Social Media, Twitter
Google may have the world’s largest search engine, but they can turn it on a dime! Earlier today Google’s new Search Plus Your World (SPYW) disappeared from my Chrome browser for several hours. It was back to what looked like “Google Classic.”...
by mtraphagen | Jan 24, 2012 | Google, Google+, Social Media
I have a guest post on Neal Shaffer’s Windmill Networking Blog, titled “The First 5 Things You Should Do with Your Google+ Business Page.” So you’ve followed the sage advice of savvy social media experts like Neal Schaffer, telling you why you need...
by mtraphagen | Jan 23, 2012 | Google+
Google Plus Guides UPDATED July 2013! By popular request, here are all our “how to” Google Plus guides for using Google+ effectively, whether for business or personal use, in one convenient listing. ALL our Google+-related posts Google Plus Guides...
by mtraphagen | Jan 18, 2012 | Google, Google+, Social Media
Google+ keeps rolling out the innovative (and often fun!) new features. Now you can start a conversation around any Google+ search stream. Here’s how it works on a breaking news item (about the Costa Concordia, a luxury liner that ran aground off Italy): Now at...
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