by mtraphagen | Mar 19, 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 Using Facebook Interest Lists to Improve EdgeRank Facebook recently introduced Interest Lists, which allow...
by mtraphagen | Mar 13, 2012 | Analytics, 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. (Apologies for the late post this week. The editor was out sick yesterday.) Social Media & Content Marketing 10 Must Have WordPress Plugins...
by mtraphagen | Mar 7, 2012 | Authorship & Author Rank, Google, Google+, Online marketing, SEO, Social Media
Or “How I Outranked Mari Smith for Her Own Post” I’ve been writing a lot lately about my new-found ability to high rank almost anything I post on Google+ on the first page of incognito Google search for long tail keywords that have search volume....
by mtraphagen | Mar 5, 2012 | Analytics, Facebook, 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 What Women Want: 6 Lessons for Pinterest from 100K Visitors Through extensive testing, expert viral marketer...
by mtraphagen | Mar 1, 2012 | Google, SEO
A great infographic from Search Engine Land that explains the history and effects of the Google Panda update, a major change in some of the factors Google uses to determine search rankings. Used by permission of Search Engine Land. You may repost to your own site, as...
by mtraphagen | Feb 29, 2012 | Analytics, Google, Google+, SEO, Social Media
Yesterday I posted a dramatic example of how an influential Google+ profile combined with Google author verification linked to high-traffic web posts can result in a huge Google SEO power boost for Google+ posts in regular Google search, even for non-logged-in...
by mtraphagen | Feb 28, 2012 | Authorship & Author Rank, Google, Google+, SEO, Social Media
UPDATE 7 October 2013: I no longer believe that the ranking result I show below is the result of either Google Authorship or Author Rank. See “Google Authorship Not a Ranking Factor (Yet).” I now attribute it to the PageRank authority of my Google+...
by mtraphagen | Feb 27, 2012 | Analytics, 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 LinkedIn Launches Company Follow Button – Here’s why you should have it and how to get it for your...
by mtraphagen | Feb 20, 2012 | Analytics, 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 Will Teens be Turning to Google+ Instead of Facebook? Remembering Peter Lynch’s classic advice to...
by mtraphagen | Feb 12, 2012 | Google, Google+, SEO, Social Media
I was reading social media news posts in an iPad app I’ve used every day for the past year, when it suddenly struck me. What I was doing at that moment just two years ago I would have been doing with a search engine. The app is Zite. It spiders out through my...
by mtraphagen | Feb 11, 2012 | Online marketing, SEO, Social Media
It’s like Reddit for inbound marketing. Inbound.org is the brainchild of Rand Fishkin of SEOMoz and Dharmesh Shah of Hubspot. It’s objective is to present the best and most current online content on all aspects of inbound marketing. Inbound.org is...
by mtraphagen | Jan 31, 2012 | Google, Google+, SEO, Social Media, Twitter
Google may have the world’s largest search engine, but they can turn it on a dime! Earlier today Google’s new Search Plus Your World (SPYW) disappeared from my Chrome browser for several hours. It was back to what looked like “Google Classic.”...
