Author Rank: Facts and Fiction (Live Hangout with Mark Traphagen)
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...
View ArticleContent Marketing Ninjas
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...
View ArticleGoogle Plus Circle Subscriptions: How to Adjust the Volume
Recently Google+ changed the location and choices for Circle volume and subscription settings. Previously they were contained in an easy-to-see slider at the top of each circle’s view on the Google+...
View ArticleIs Google+ Still the Future of Google? The Commitment of Google and Larry Page
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...
View ArticleAre You in Danger of Anchor Text Over Optimization?
We’ve just added a free Anchor Text Over Optimization Tool to the site for our Remove’em bad backlink removal tool. This tool will quickly tell you if you have over-optimized links pointing at your...
View ArticleMatt Cutts SMX Advanced 2013 Question and Answer Session
Here are my on-the-spot notes taken down as Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Land interviewed Google Distinguished Engineer (and head of Google’s anti-web spam team) Matt Cutts with questions of his own...
View Articlerel=author or rel=publisher: Which Should I Use?
Among the most frequently-asked questions we get at the Google Authorship and Author Rank Community on Google+ are those concerning the usage of rel=authorship and rel=publisher connections. Or to put...
View ArticleHealthcare Online Marketing Seminar for North Carolina
The Future of Healthcare Marketing TICKETS WILL BE SOLD AT THE DOOR Give us one morning & you’ll grow your healthcare business In just one morning you can discover the array of opportunities Google...
View ArticleRemove’em: Google Penalty Recovery Success for One Full Year!
Happy Birthday, Remove’em! It’s just one year since we introduced Google penalty recovery tool Remove’em, and already it’s been used to remove over 1 million spammy back links from the web, and helped...
View ArticleMale Cancer Men’s Health Month Interview 21 June 2013
This Friday, June 21, Todd Hartley, CEO of WireBuzz will interview Martin (“Marty”) Smith and me about our experiences with cancer, as part of Google’s promotion of Men’s Health Month. The Live Google+...
View ArticleNew Google Maps: First Tour
There’s a new Google Maps coming. Google is rolling out a complete overhaul of the look and feel of its popular browser-based mapping program. Everything is designed to be more intuitive and one-click...
View ArticleGoogle Subject Authority Ranking: Lead or Get Out of the Way
Barry Schwartz at Search Engine Land recently wrote about a fascinating hint at Google Subject Authority Ranking from Google’s Matt Cutts in a recent Google Webmaster Help video (video will start at...
View ArticleVirante CEO Named Patriotic Employer by US Department of Defense
Employer Support for the Guard and Reserve (ESGR), a division of the United States Department of Defense, today named Virante Inc. CEO Malcolm Young as a “Patriotic Employer.” The award was presented...
View ArticleGoogle Authorship Update: Where Is Google Going with rel=author?
I should probably take a temporary suspension from my reputation as an Authorship expert for having missed this Google Authorship update video from Matt Cutts back in June. But it’s still valuable...
View ArticleGoogle In-Depth Article Search Results: How to Qualify Your Content
Google today announced that ”In-depth Articles” are to be featured in Search. The Official Google Webmaster Tools blog today announced that Google is beginning to roll out a new feature in Search (US...
View ArticleGoogle In-Depth Articles Search Results: First Look and Reactions
Finally seeing some examples of the new Google “In-depth articles” search results feature in my Google Search. Below is a screen capture from a search for “social media.” Also found such results for...
View ArticleWriting for the Semantic Web and Semantic Search
Below is a recent interview I did talking about how we should be writing content for the semantic web. I was the guest of Michael Ehline of the Circle of Legal Trust, a “Confederation of Online...
View ArticleHow to Create a Flipboard Magazine
A Flipboard Magazine Is Content Curation Made Beautiful When I was a kid I loved that my parents subscribed to lots of magazines. Life, Look, National Geographic…whenever a new one arrived I loved...
View ArticleWordPress In-Depth Article Markup Plugin
We’re pleased to announce the availability of our FREE WordPress In-Depth Article markup plugin! Our In-Depth Articles Generator plugin, once installed in your WordPress blog or site, will automate the...
View ArticleGoogle Answers Questions About Google Authorship
It’s been a long time since we’ve had any real information updates on Google Authorship and how it should be used from the horse’s mouth (that’s Google with the saddle on over there, by the way). That...
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