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...
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 pbuckley | Apr 15, 2012 | SEO
If you’re like most smartphone users, you’re killing time by browsing while you wait for… well, anything. The death of free time has resulted in a new optimization problem opportunity. When I’m waiting I usually pull up Zite. It’s my go...
by mtraphagen | Apr 2, 2012 | Authorship & Author Rank, Content Marketing, Google, Google+, Presentations, SEO, Social Media
This Wednesday at 2:pm EST / 11:00am PST, Who CARES? will conduct a Live Google+ Hangout On Air with +AJ Kohn of +Blind Five Year Old, and +Mark Traphagen of +Virante Search Marketing. We will talk about Google AuthorRank, and what this means for your business and to...
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 31, 2012 | Content Marketing, Google, Online marketing, Presentations, SEO, Social Media
From the presentation by Rand Fishkin of SEOMoz titled “F%S#! Link Building. Content Marketing FTW” on SlideShare. Rand Fishkin says content marketing has better ROI and far less risk than link building. Here are his top 10 tips to brilliant content...
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...
by mtraphagen | Mar 21, 2012 | Google, SEO, Social Media
Google pretty much invented the algorithmic search engine result, the idea that the crowd intelligence of the web itself could do a better job of selecting the best content for any given search query, over human-curated indexes. This infographic helps you trace...
