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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 there intentionally by Google for us to find is up [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Virante’s Director of Digital Outreach Mark Traphagen (Google+ | Twitter) was interviewed by Brandon Hassler of digital marketing agency 97th Floor. Brandon asked Mark questions about the following: Q. When many in the industry think about Google+ they can’t help but think of Mark Traphagen. What is it about Google+ that got you hooked? Q. Google+ officially [...]
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 post has sparked some pushback from some very thoughtful readers. [...]
Over the past few days I’ve had an interesting exchange with a young man who had sent me several unsolicited commercial messages via Google+ notifications. I had responded once before with a brief message informing him this was spam and that I was going to report it as such to Google+. Later that day I [...]
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 [...]
Somebody at Google likes me. I swear, I’m not paying them anything! Back in June of 2012 I first posted about what I saw as a flaw in the way Google indexes Google+ posts that are re-shares of other users’ posts. Since at least the spring of that year I’d found that I could very, [...]
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