by bgassett | Dec 19, 2013 | Google+, Social Media
Google Plus & Pinterest = Marketing Dynamo! The ultimate goal of any social media strategy is to get more visitors to your website. It is a long process, but worth it because you have to take the time to grow your followers and build a strong bond with them....
by seanmurray | May 2, 2013 | Google, Google+, SEO, Social Media
or Leaving Google+ In Order to Enhance Google+ In the last week, diehard Google fans discovered that a new commenting feature added to the Blogger platform had a stunning loophole: the feature could be applied to other platforms. Whether an unsecure API call was left...
by mtraphagen | Jan 8, 2013 | Content Marketing, Google, Google+, News, Online marketing, SEO, Social Media
According to Dan Petrovic of Dejan SEO, as of 5 January 2012 Google stopped following (for link juice purposes) links placed in posts on Google+. The primary link is still followed. This is the first link you put into a post on Google+ if you allow G+ to turn it into...
by mtraphagen | Dec 21, 2012 | Google, Google+, Infographics, News, Social Media
Google+ celebrated nearing the end of its first full calendar year as a social network by publishing this infographic displaying highlights about the network achieved in 2012: The infographic covers the following highlights and achievements of Google Plus in 2012: The...
by mtraphagen | Dec 5, 2012 | Authorship & Author Rank, Google, Google+, Social Media
If you read me regularly or follow me on Google+, it’s no secret to you that I think Google Authorship is the hottest thing since meme images of velociraptors. Authorship is connecting your content from across the web to your Google+ profile. When you do so, you...
by mtraphagen | Nov 13, 2012 | Google, Google+, News, Online marketing, Social Media
According to Google+ Chief Architect Yonatan Zunger, Google+ will now send you notifications for new comments in large comment threads, but only when a new algorithm determines it is likely you’d want to see such notifications Google+ used to stop notifying you...
by mtraphagen | Oct 1, 2012 | Google+, Social Media
I’ve been waiting to unveil this one for a couple of weeks now! My friend +Neal Schaffer of Windmill Networking has compiled a Q& A about Google+ with top industry experts. This panel has a difference: each and every one of them is an active and avid user of...
by mtraphagen | Sep 15, 2012 | Content Marketing, Google+, Online marketing, Social Media
Smart email marketers know that one of the reasons that channel can be so powerful is the ability to target content at segments of your brands’ following who are inherently receptive to that content. Your audience can opt in to a variety of newsletters centered...
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 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 | 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 | 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...