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...
by mtraphagen | Aug 23, 2012 | Google, Google+, News, Social Media
U In an update that began rolling out to new users on August 22, 2012, Google+ made huge changes to the way notifications about posts are created and received. The initial announcement caused a lot of confusion among active users, and some of the changes to the...
by mtraphagen | Aug 21, 2012 | Google, Google+, News, Online marketing, SEO, Social Media
If you run a local business and have a Google Places account, there’s a pretty good chance you’re aware of what a mess it can be for many. Inability to verify, wrong information that you can’t seem to get changed, duplicate accounts–these are...
by mtraphagen | Jul 26, 2012 | Analytics, Free SEO Tools, Google, News, Online marketing, SEO, Social Media
My notes from the presentation “A Secret Algo Project Launch” at MozCon 2012 by Dr. Peter J. Meyers, Rogue Scientist for SEOmoz (@dr_pete). Be sure to read until the end for an amazing announcement from SEOmoz! Background: http://mz.cm/algo-history SEOmoz...
by mtraphagen | Jul 9, 2012 | Content Marketing, Google, Google+, News, Social Media
Two weeks ago Google announced to the Google+ Platform Preview Group that they were beginning to test an upgrade to the Google +1 button. The update, until now only visible to members of that group, adds content recommendations to the +1 button when a...
by pbuckley | Jun 6, 2012 | Google, Link Removal, News, SEO
For the past six weeks I have been trying to help site owners in the Google’s Webmaster Central. Many of the sites were sailing along fine for the last few years building so-so links from so-so sites. Then Panda and Penguin showed up and spoiled everything....
by mtraphagen | May 21, 2012 | Analytics, Apps, Content Marketing, Facebook, Google, Google+, Hive Digital, News, Online marketing, Paid Search, SEO, Social Media
A weekly roundup of the most interesting and useful posts and articles on search / inbound marketing from the past week. Social Media & Content Marketing Google+ Live Hangouts on Air Now Available to All – Tech pundits disagree sharply on whether or not...
by mtraphagen | May 18, 2012 | Google, Google+, News, Online marketing, SEO, Social Media
Two days ago Google announced the roll out of it’s new Knowledge Graph search results. (See ” The Google Knowledge Graph”) Knowledge Graph is Google’s method of learning the connections between various data point on the Internet, no longer just...
by mtraphagen | May 16, 2012 | Google, News
We’re in the early phases of moving from being an information engine to becoming a knowledge engine. – Johanna Wright, Google Product Management Director Google is stepping up its knowledge graph and semantic search program, a feature which will begin...
by mtraphagen | Apr 16, 2012 | Analytics, Content Marketing, Google, Google+, News, Online marketing, Paid Search, SEO, Social Media
A weekly roundup of the most interesting and useful posts and articles on search / inbound marketing from the past week. Social Media & Content Marketing Writing for the Web The average web reader spends just 3 seconds on a page before he or she decides whether...
by mtraphagen | Apr 2, 2012 | Analytics, Content Marketing, Google, Google+, News, Online marketing, Paid Search, SEO, Social Media
A weekly roundup of the most interesting and useful posts and articles on search / inbound marketing from the past week. Social Media & Content Marketing Rand Fishkin’s Top 10 Tips for Content Marketing The head of SEOMoz says content marketing provides...
by mtraphagen | Mar 26, 2012 | Analytics, Facebook, Google, Google+, News, Online marketing, Paid Search, SEO, Social Media, Twitter
A weekly roundup of the most interesting and useful posts and articles on search / inbound marketing from the past week. Social Media & Content Marketing Facebook Adds News Feed Noise Reducer Facebook now auto-suggests adding “friends” with whom you...
