Is Google+ Still the Future of Google? The Commitment of Google and Larry Page

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I love the way Elisa Gabbert put it over on the WordStream Blog: The Future According to Larry Page: Outlook Lazy. But I really don’t agree with her leap to a conclusion that Page thinks “the future…will not be social, as Page might have had us believe in the past.” She’s referring to the 2013 1st Quarter earnings call [...]

Fitness and Nutrition Community on Google Plus: A Case Study

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Fitness and Nutrition Community Case Study I’m relatively new to social media and willingly confess that its value to me personally and to my work was always suspect. For those of you in the business, no doubt you would find my excuses for devaluing social media were not far removed from what you hear every [...]

The Real Value from Content Marketing

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Content marketing is all the hype these days and understandably so. A well thought-out and researched, content marketing strategy is an effective way to target and reach new audiences, build brands, and increase online visibility and traffic. Like other online marketing initiatives, this approach can be as effective or as non-effective as the time we [...]

Content Marketing Ninjas

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A live blog of the presentations of three incredible content marketing ninjas at the Raleigh SEO Meetup, 26 March 2013. Casie Gillette @casieg KoMarketing Associates Amy Lewis @commsninja Cisco Marty Smith @scenttrail AtlanticBT Casie Gillette: Content is for Search, Branding & Authorship Needed to find ways to help clients take advantage of universal search as [...]

Author Rank: Facts and Fiction (Live Hangout with Mark Traphagen)

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Virante’s Mark Traphagen was the guest of +Max Minzer for his Max Impact Hangout On Air show, discussing the topic: “Author Rank: Facts and Fiction.” Mark shared his views on the distinction between Authorship and Author Rank, whether or not Author Rank is a major ranking factor for search yet, and how content creators and brands should [...]

Link Building Tips from Link Building Clinic at SMX West 2013

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Ari Nahmani live diagnosed the link profiles of a number of sites during this session at SMX West 2013, along with Search Engine Land’s Elisabeth Osmeloski and Kaila Strong. If you are distributing an embedded widget or free plugin, make the anchor text all brand name on the link back. Rotating the anchor text might work [...]

Content Isn’t Just King: It’s Also Queen and Ace (SMX West 2013)

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The Veg-O-Matic Approach to Smart SEO Writing – Heather Lloyd Heather Lloyd-Martin is a 20-year marketing veteran and recognized author. She is President and CEO of SuccessWorks, a marketing firm providing search engine optimized copywriting Once upon a time it was all about your website. The pressure now to constantly create and share content is [...]

From Authorship to Authority: Claiming Your Identity Online And Why You Should

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What is Google Authorship? What is Author Rank? Why should you use Authorship? From SMX West, 12 March 2013. Panelists: Mike Arnesen, SwellPath (@mike_arnesen) AJ Kohn, Blind Five Year Old (@ajkohn) (There was another panelist, but I decided to just blog those directly talking about Google Authorship)

Matt Cutts & Duane Forrester’s Excellent Adventure: The Search Police at SMX West

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Google’s Matt Cutts and Bing’s Duane Forrester at SMX West, March 11 2013 Matt Cutts: Examples of Totally Bogus Spam Matt started off by showing some examples of glaringly obvious spam sites. He asked us not to blog about them to protect privacy. But he let us know that Google’s new “How Search Works” site [...]

Link Building Fundamentals: SMX West

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Presented by Debra Mastaler, President, Alliance-Link (@debramastaler). A live blog of an SEO Boot Camp session at SMX West in San Jose, CA, March 11, 2013.  Part One: Concept of Link Popularity There are five major engines, but Google is by far #1. The other four don’t even amount to half of Google’s combined. All [...]