by ekoppel | Jan 26, 2012 | Analytics, Google, SEO
Google announced, via its Webmaster Central Blog, that it was making an update to the “Top Search Queries” data. Beginning today, Google Webmaster Tools Top Search Query report will take the average of a site’s top URL rankings for a query versus an...
by Russ Jones | Jan 25, 2012 | Free SEO Tools, Google, SEO
We recommend that all of our clients adopt a multi-site strategy for rankings, as it increases the number of sites they can have ranking for any particular target keyword phrase. This multi-site strategy also helps mitigate some of the risks of search engine...
by mtraphagen | Jan 13, 2012 | Google, Google+, SEO, Social Media
There’s a great deal of hooplah online right now about the new Google “Search plus Your World” implementation that adds personalized search (with Google+ content front-and-center) as the default view for most searcher’s SERPs. Almost all of the...
by mtraphagen | Jan 11, 2012 | Google, Google+, Paid Search, SEO, Social Media
On January 10, 2012, Google began to roll out its new “Search plus Your World,* which subdivides your search results into personalized results and non-personalized results. The personalized results side now shows a ramped-up “social search,” pulling...
by mtraphagen | Jan 11, 2012 | Google, Google+, SEO, Social Media
The web has changed the world in so many ways, but few are more awesome than the fact that now anyone can be a “published” author. Search engines like Google made it possible that people might actually find your content. Then social media came along,...
by mtraphagen | Jan 10, 2012 | Authorship & Author Rank, Content Marketing, Google, Google+, SEO, Social Media
Today Google announced a change to the way it presents its search engine results that evoked breathless proclamations from the technorati like these: “Google+ could change the entire way we use the Web — and drive millions of Web sites who depend on Google...
by mtraphagen | Jan 8, 2012 | Authorship & Author Rank, Content Marketing, Google, Google+, SEO, Social Media
Could there be anything more cheering to an online author (especially one with a healthy ego like Yours Truly) than seeing this little gift from Google? Such “author rich snippet search results” are one of the benefits of connecting your online, original...
by mtraphagen | Nov 17, 2011 | Analytics, SEO, Social Media
Social sharing facilitator ShareThis today announced a new service to be fully unveiled early in 2012: Social Quality Index (SQI). According to the company blog, ShareThis SQI will provide a quantifiable index of the social effectiveness of individual content pieces...
by mtraphagen | Nov 15, 2011 | Content Marketing, Google, Google+, SEO, Social Media
Anyone building a brand or business page on Google+ quickly comes to a rather unsettling realization: at no point in the process does Google do anything to check that you have any real connection to the brand name on your page. Anyone can create a Google+ Page with...
by mtraphagen | Nov 11, 2011 | Free SEO Tools, Hive Digital, Presentations, SEO
Yesterday Virante’s CTO Russ Jones (Twitter: @rjonesx) spoke at PubCon in Las Vegas on the topic “Low Risk, High Reward Link Development.” Virante Director of Customer Relations Jacob Bobhall (Twitter: @jakebohall) live tweeted the talk. The...
by Jacob Bohall | Oct 21, 2011 | Analytics, Paid Search, Presentations, SEO, Social Media
I had the pleasure of being invited (again!) to a Transportation Marketing and Sales Association event. I met some wonderful people, and hopefully imparted some wisdom regarding the importance of search engine marketing, popular search engine marketing strategies,...
by ekoppel | Oct 19, 2011 | Analytics, Google, SEO
Google officially announced that over the next few weeks, it will begin encrypting search queries and results for signed-in users. This change will increase privacy and security for all signed-in users. However, for us web analysts (and Google Analytics users), this...
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