by mtraphagen | Nov 6, 2012 | Hive Digital, News, Online marketing, Presentations, SEO, Social Media
We apologize that due to reduced wifi capabilities at the conference, our live blogs will be delayed A crew from Virante will be live blogging most of the public sessions at this year’s Internet Summit in Raleigh NC, November 7 and 8, 2012. Posts will be in...
by Russ Jones | Oct 18, 2012 | Content Marketing, Free SEO Tools, Google, Online marketing, SEO
Today Virante, Inc. launched nTopic, a content relevancy scoring API for Search Engine Optimization. Because there is nothing quite like it available in the world of SEO, we thought it would be appropriate to spend a little bit of time explaining what nTopic is and...
by pbuckley | Oct 17, 2012 | Google, Link Removal, News, SEO
Yesterday Matt Cutts announced the release of Google’s new link disavow tool at PubCon 2012 out in Las Vegas. The announcement was greeted with happiness, but it really doesn’t change too much of the equation. This tool is for site owners to use as a last...
by mtraphagen | Oct 16, 2012 | Google, News, Online marketing, SEO
Big announcement moments ago by +Matt Cutts at #Pubcon Las Vegas : Google is today introducing a backlink disavowal tool in Webmaster Tools to allow sites hit by manual ranking penalties to disavow bad backlinks they have been unable to remove. Matt Shared some tips...
by mtraphagen | Sep 13, 2012 | Authorship & Author Rank, Content Marketing, Google, Google+, SEO, Social Media
Join Virante’s +Mark Traphagen with co-guest panelists +AJ Kohn and +Bill Slawski for a Google+ Hangout On Air discussion of Rich Snippet search results and Google Authorship / Author Rank. The show was hosted by +Dan Petrovic and +Martin Reed of DejanSEO....
by mtraphagen | Sep 7, 2012 | Content Marketing, Google, Google+, Online marketing, SEO, Social Media
Recently the Virante Search Marketing Google+ Page was given “verified name” status by Google+. The only visible change this makes is that now a checkmark appears next to our name on our profile, as well as any appearances of our name in Google+ search. As...
by mtraphagen | Aug 30, 2012 | Authorship & Author Rank, Content Marketing, Google, Google+, SEO, Social Media
If you follow my writing here, on various other blogs, and on Google+, you know that I am a big fan of Google’s Authorship project, and that I do a great deal of thinking and research about it. But when you’ve got your nose deep into something, it’s...
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 21, 2012 | Authorship & Author Rank, Content Marketing, Google, Google+, Online marketing, Presentations, SEO, Social Media
Watch this live Google+ Hangout on Air webinar (at bottom of this post) I did host by the charming +Yifat Cohen. In it, I discuss what we know or can guess about how using Google Plus and Google Authorship (connecting all your web content to your Google+ profile)...
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 | Aug 15, 2012 | Content Marketing, Google, Google+, Online marketing, SEO, Social Media, Twitter
Virante’s Mark Traphagen joined John Blossom (Shore Communications), Mark Thomas (SlingshotSEO), Su Ann Lim (TekPersona), Steve Faktor (IdeaFaktory), and Patrick Healy (Phacient) in a live Google+ Hangout On Air broadcast hosted by Shaker Cherukuri of...
by pbuckley | Aug 6, 2012 | Google, Online marketing, SEO
When you run a brick and mortar business one of the places you would like to be listed at is your local Chamber of Commerce. The links that come from your Chamber of Commerce site offer two real values. First is a local citation that is a trusted organization that is...
