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Are you one of us? Once, we were few. And we were lonely. We had Google+ powers far beyond those of “normal” users. Some called us mutants. Eventually, our shared condition drove us together, and we became the X-Persons of Google+, sworn to use our powers for good and for awesome. What the heck am [...]
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 a rich snippet. Any other [...]
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. (Video is below text) For the first 20 minutes, Dan and Martin give us [...]
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. As they say, that an $5 will get you a [...]
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 easy to slip into jargon and forget [...]
In a new interview on Search Engine Journal we get some updated insights into the current state of the Google Authorship project from Google Director of Product for Search Sagar Kamdar, who has specific responsibilities with Google’s Author Verification project. Here’s the key quote: Q: Is Authorship used by Google as a ranking signal? (i.e., does [...]
Two days ago Google announced the roll out of it’s new Knowledge Graph search results. (See ” The Google Knowledge Graph“) Knowledge Graph is Google’s method of learning the connections between various data point on the Internet, no longer just by their hyperlinks, but in the same way that people understand connections (the Eiffel Tower is a building in [...]
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