by mtraphagen | Oct 28, 2013 | Authorship & Author Rank, Content Marketing, Google, Google+, Online marketing, SEO, Social Media
Google Author Rank: The Sasquatch of SEO When it comes to the topic of Google Author Rank and whether it is a reality today, the True Believers are only slightly less fanatical than people convinced that the following are real: Sasquatch (Big Foot) UFO abductions The...
by mtraphagen | Sep 29, 2013 | Authorship & Author Rank, Content Marketing, Google, Google+, News, Online marketing, SEO, Social Media
UPDATE 7 October 2013: At SMX East last week, in the Google Authorship session, Google Webmaster Trends Analyst Pierre Farr also confirmed that Google Authorship is not a factor in ranking search results at the present time. Original Post: “We don’t use...
by mtraphagen | Feb 2, 2013 | Google, Google+, Online marketing, SEO, Social Media
This past week I published what has become my most widely read and re-shared post ever, and in many ways I think my most important post ever: “Your Google Plus Network Is More Powerful Than You Know.” One paragraph of that social media influence...
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 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 5, 2012 | Authorship & Author Rank, Content Marketing, Google, Google+, Online marketing, Presentations, Social Media
Watch this recording of a live Google+ Hangout On Air chat featuring Virante Director of Social Media Marketing Mark Traphagen and social SEO expert AJ Kohn. The Hangout was hosted by Tim Moore of CrushIQ. AJ and Mark discuss what Google is doing with what has come to...
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 | 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...