Social Media
How to Filter Conversations on Google+ with Shared Circles and Hashtags
From blog editor Mark Traphagen: Once you get a large number of active Google+ users in your circles, your stream can start to get noisy. …
Facebook Adds News Feed Noise Reducer: Acquaintance List Suggestions
You actually might want to know what bar your closest Facebook friends hung out at last night (without you?!?). But that guy down the dorm ...
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Google Algorithm Changes: An Infographic History
Google pretty much invented the algorithmic search engine result, the idea that the crowd intelligence of the web itself could do a better job ...
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How to Rank for a Keyword in Google+ Search
UPDATE: The beginning of this post talks about a Google search feature which no longer exists: the “People and Pages on Google+” box. For a period ...
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Monday Morning Quarterback #5
A weekly roundup of the most interesting and useful posts and articles on search / inbound marketing from the past week. Social Media & Content ...
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Google+ Page Verification Now Open to More Pages
By far the #1 question I get from people who have read my “How to Verify Your Google+ Brand Page with Google” post is “So ...
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Monday Morning Quarterback #4
A weekly roundup of the most interesting and useful posts and articles on search / inbound marketing from the past week. (Apologies for the late ...
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Facebook Interest Lists Copy Google+ Shared Circles
Facebook is rolling out a new feature called Interest Lists. Facebook users can create and share lists of people and fan pages centered around a topic. ...
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Is AuthorRank Most Important for High Ranking Google+ Posts?
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 ...
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Monday Morning Quarterback #3
A weekly roundup of the most interesting and useful posts and articles on search / inbound marketing from the past week. Social Media & Content ...
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What Is Pinterest? (Infographic)
Pinterest is the hottest new social network that’s not really new. It’s been around since 2010, but it really took off late in 2011 and ...
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Google+ Adds Comment Spam Filtering
In a Google+ post, Google+ staffer +Pras Sarkar announced automatic Google+ comment spam filtering. Google will try to identify spammy comments on Google+ user posts. Potential ...
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Does Engagement Trump Recency in High Ranking Google+ Posts?
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 ...
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The SEO Power of Google+ Plus Google Author Rank
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 ...
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