by mtraphagen | Feb 22, 2013 | Content Marketing, Google, Online marketing, SEO
Guest Posting? Yes! But Just for Links, NO! Based on what happened in the massive Interflora Google de-indexing this week, and the discovery that the probable cause was tons of paid “advertorials” on British newspaper sites, Gordon Campbell sounds an...
by mtraphagen | Feb 21, 2013 | Google, Google+, Hive Digital, Online marketing, Social Media
Virante’s Director of Digital Outreach Mark Traphagen (Google+ | Twitter) was interviewed by
by mtraphagen | Feb 11, 2013 | Online marketing, Social Media
Recently my friend and co-worker Phil Buckley posted on his personal blog “Graduating from Enthusiast to Professional.” In it he ponders where the line is between free advice and consulting that should be paid for. He didn’t try to give a final...
by mtraphagen | Feb 6, 2013 | Authorship & Author Rank, Content Marketing, Google, Google+, News, Online marketing, SEO, Social Media
Wherefore art thou, Google Author Rank? This past weekend The Wall Street Journal published excerpts from an upcoming book by Google Chairman Eric Schmidt. Among Schmidt’s seven predictions for what we can expect in the coming years of the digital age was this...
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 pbuckley | Jan 16, 2013 | Content Marketing, Google, Online marketing, SEO
I’ve been doing SEO for a while, not since the stone-age of SEO, but as far back to remember when you could so easily game the system. That is now a lost world. In the not so distant past SEO’s could offer their clients a the equivalent of a diet pill. No...
by mtraphagen | Jan 15, 2013 | Facebook, Online marketing, Social Media
Facebook’s new Graph Search feature promises to revolutionize our searches by tying together the social graph of our friends and Liked pages. At first glance, the ability of the new search to bring together different bits of information as an answer to a natural...
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 31, 2012 | Content Marketing, News, Online marketing, SEO, Social Media
There is simply no better source on the web for discovering the best inbound marketing content than Inbound.org. Members contribute links to articles they find useful, and the community upvotes the best to the front “Hottest” page. Most of the best and...
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 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...