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 28, 2013 | Authorship & Author Rank, Content Marketing, Google, Google+, Online marketing, SEO, Social Media
Google Author Rank: The Sasquatch of SEO When it comes to the topic of Google Author Rank and whether it is a reality today, the True Believers are only slightly less fanatical than people convinced that the following are real: Sasquatch (Big Foot) UFO abductions The...
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 23, 2013 | Authorship & Author Rank, Google+, Online marketing, Social Media
I’m hearing from a lot of my spies at Pubcon 2013 in Las Vegas that I’ve been getting shoutouts from a number of speakers, recommending they read this blog to get the best content about Google Authorship and Google+. Thanks! Let me help you get straight to...
by bgassett | Oct 23, 2013 | Content Marketing, Facebook, Google+, Online marketing, Social Media, Twitter
Social Media For Real Estate As a Realtor, you will do whatever it takes to sell a home as fast as possible. After all, who doesn’t love satisfied clients and a quicker commission? But if you haven’t integrated social media into your home selling strategy, you are...
by mtraphagen | Oct 11, 2013 | Content Marketing, Online marketing, Social Media
Presentation on Social Media Law by Glen Gilmore (@GlenGilmore) at ConvergeSouth 2013, Greensboro, North Carolina, 11 October 2013 Glen Gilmore is a social media strategist who has provided customized social media marketing training to members of the Fortune 500,...
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 | Sep 18, 2013 | Authorship & Author Rank, Google, Google+, Online marketing, SEO, Social Media
How and why do certain Google+ Plus posts in search results do better than others? That’s been a question at the front of my attention for almost two years now. Google obviuosly treats public Google+ posts differently from other social network posts. You may...
by mtraphagen | Sep 16, 2013 | Authorship & Author Rank, Content Marketing, Google, Google+, Online marketing, Presentations, SEO, Social Media
Personal Brand Authority Is Key to Customer Connection Recently I was asked to give a workshop for entrepreneurs and startup business people at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City. Since the Foundation was taking the trouble of flying me all the way...
by seanmurray | Aug 23, 2013 | Content Marketing, Free SEO Tools, Google, Online marketing, SEO, Social Media
Just when you thought you were ahead of the game by implementing Authorship and/or Publishership, Google shook things up…again. In-Depth Articles are now a regular part of the search results for broad keywords and their visibility is so prominent, it’s...