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 | Jun 1, 2012 | Content Marketing, Google, Google+, Online marketing, SEO, Social Media
After nearly a year of extensive testing, I have absolutely no doubts about the power of a Google+ profile or page to influence Google search results. But I do sometimes have doubts about the quality of results that, well, result. I was fortunate enough to get invited...
by mtraphagen | May 30, 2012 | Google, Google+, Online marketing, SEO, Social Media
Starting today, Google+ users are seeing a new tab in the left sidebar: Local. Clicking Google+ Local takes the user to a special search page, with the user’s default location already filled in. Enter a search query and you get a screen of Google Places results...
by pbuckley | May 25, 2012 | Google, SEO
For the past few days I have been on a mission of mercy down at the epicenter of the fallout from latest Google update. The Penguin tsunami has left site owners dazed, confused, frustrated and grasping for answers. The main problem with many of the victims is that...
by mtraphagen | May 24, 2012 | Google, Google+, Online marketing, SEO, Social Media, Twitter
Following up on a delicious rant on Google+ about sloppy use of correlation studies in the SEO & Internet marketing worlds by my friend Corey Creed, Ronnie Bincer shared a “funny-because-it’s-all-too-true” PHD comic: The comic shows how (in the...
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 pbuckley | May 15, 2012 | Google, SEO
If your site was hit by Google’s dreaded Penguin update, there is hope, but it’s going to take a little bit of work to get back to your previous rankings. The first step is to look at your backlink profile to find those spammy links you built that Google...
by mzaffina | May 1, 2012 | Content Marketing, SEO, Social Media
Everyone in the SEO world says it: “content is king.” This has been the golden rule for those “in the know” in SEO for years now, but only in the past year or so has it started to get wider play. So will the job of Social Media Copywriter become a lucrative...
by mtraphagen | Apr 24, 2012 | Content Marketing, SEO
Already know what Zemanta is? Skip ahead to news about the new Enhanced Linking plugin. If you haven’t already heard, Zemanta is one of the most powerful WordPress plugins available both for enhancing your content and increasing its SEO value. The basic Zemanta...
by mtraphagen | Apr 18, 2012 | Authorship & Author Rank, Content Marketing, Facebook, Google, Google+, Presentations, SEO, Social Media, Twitter
My slides (with added annotations) from a presentation I did for the Duke University Webcomm Group. I cover the growing influence of social media on search engine results, why search engines are seeking “social signal,” and end with a focus on test...
by mtraphagen | Apr 17, 2012 | Google, Google+, SEO
Starting last December Google Webmaster Tools included a “labs” prototype feature that displayed rudimentary analytics for any indexed results on the web that were connected to your Google verified authorship (content tied to you Google+ profile using any...
