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 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 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 | Aug 21, 2013 | Authorship & Author Rank, Content Marketing, Google, Google+, News, Online marketing, SEO, Social Media
It’s been a long time since we’ve had any real information updates on Google Authorship and how it should be used from the horse’s mouth (that’s Google with the saddle on over there, by the way). That changed today with the posting of...
by mtraphagen | Aug 7, 2013 | Authorship & Author Rank, Content Marketing, Google, News, Online marketing, SEO, Social Media
UPDATE: Some Hope for Small Publishers 11 August 2013 We have seen before where a new feature like this only works for big guys in the beginning but eventually rolls out for anyone. Authorship would be a case in point. I set it up when it first came out, but waited...
by mtraphagen | Aug 6, 2013 | Authorship & Author Rank, Content Marketing, Google, News, Online marketing, SEO, Social Media
Google today announced that “In-depth Articles” are to be featured in Search. The Official Google Webmaster Tools blog today announced that Google is beginning to roll out a new feature in Search (US first) that will highlight “in-depth...
by mtraphagen | Jul 8, 2013 | Google, Google+, News, SEO
There’s a new Google Maps coming. Google is rolling out a complete overhaul of the look and feel of its popular browser-based mapping program. Everything is designed to be more intuitive and one-click away. I applied to preview the new Google Maps interface...
by mtraphagen | Jun 20, 2013 | Google, Google+, News, Presentations, Social Media
This Friday, June 21, Todd Hartley, CEO of WireBuzz will interview Martin (“Marty”) Smith and me about our experiences with cancer, as part of Google’s promotion of Men’s Health Month. The Live Google+ Hangout On Air event will be co-sponsored...
