by mtraphagen | Sep 13, 2012 | Hive Digital, News, Social Media
Virante Search Marketing, a full-service Internet marketing agency located in Morrisville, NC, was pleased to be a chief patron of the recent 24-Hour Telethon fundraiser for the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina, located in nearby Raleigh NC. The...
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 9, 2012 | Google, Google+, Social Media
If you’re a Lord of the Rings fan, you know the terrible torture that the Eye of Sauron imposed on poor Frodo. It made the ring he bore a heavy burden. Day and night he could feel the Eye calling out to him to surrender himself to the inevitable. If you’re...
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 check mark appears next to our name on our profile, as well as any appearances of our name in Google+ search....
by mtraphagen | Sep 6, 2012 | Apps, Content Marketing, Facebook, Online marketing, Social Media
UPDATE: Facebook has now introduced an update for all mobile apps that includes a share button for posts from others in your news feed. Late to the game, but the problem described below is no longer a problem Imagine that your team is in the Big Game. It’s all...
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 29, 2012 | Google+, Infographics, Social Media
CircleCount (a Google+ user stats site) created this stunning info-map showing the locations of active Google+ users across the globe. Heres’ how they describe its creation: We visualised the profiles in our index with a publicly shown location (more than 4...
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 25, 2012 | Google+, Online marketing, Presentations, Social Media
The latest in +John Rakestraw’s “Platform Live” Google Plus Hangout On Air conversations with +David Amerland and myself (and now with the very welcomed addition of +Susanne Ramharter) is on the subject of cloud computing. After an initial discussion...
by mtraphagen | Aug 24, 2012 | Content Marketing, Google, Google+, Online marketing, Social Media
Watch this recorded Google+ Hangout on Air panel discussion hosted by +Ronnie Bincer, and featuring +Fraser Cain (of Universe Today) and +Stephanie Wanamaker, with Virante’s own +Mark Traphagen. Click the video image at the bottom of this post to watch. Our...
by mtraphagen | Aug 23, 2012 | Google, Google+, News, Social Media
U In an update that began rolling out to new users on August 22, 2012, Google+ made huge changes to the way notifications about posts are created and received. The initial announcement caused a lot of confusion among active users, and some of the changes to the...
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, hosted 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)...
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