The Culture of Trust in Social Media Networks
A Google+ Hangout On Air video discussion. Participants: John Rakestraw, Life Coach and Author (moderator) David Amerland, Author and Speaker Mark Traphagen, Director of Digital Marketing, Virante …
Is Marketing Dead? A Live Hangout on Air Video Discussion
Virante’s Mark Traphagen joined John Blossom (Shore Communications), Mark Thomas (SlingshotSEO), Su Ann Lim (TekPersona), Steve Faktor (IdeaFaktory), and Patrick Healy (Phacient) in a live Google+ Hangout ...
Quora Views: Quora Gets Even More Social
Quora, Google’s community question-answering service, has become even more social and interactive with the introduction of Quora Views. Quora describes Views as “a way to ...
Google Authorship: Does It Affect Search Rankings? Google Official Speaks Out
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 ...
Google +1 Button Content Recommendations Now Public
Two weeks ago Google announced to the Google+ Platform Preview Group that they were beginning to test an upgrade to the Google +1 button. The ...
Google+ Events vs. Facebook Events: King of Virtual & King of IRL
My first thought about the new Google+ Events was that no matter how slick and cool it is, this is one feature that could be hurt ...
Google Testing +1 Button with Site Content Recommendations
In an email to the Google+ Platform Preview group today, Google announced that the following +1 button test, is now visible on the web to ...
Small businesses devastated in the wake of Penguin tsunami
For the past few days I have been on a mission of mercy down at the epicenter of the fallout from latest Google update. The ...
SEO Correlation Studies and the Dangers of the SEO News Cycle
Following up on a delicious rant on Google+ about sloppy use of correlation studies in the SEO & Internet marketing worlds by my friend Corey ...
Monday Morning Quarterback #9 (Inbound Marketing News)
A weekly roundup of the most interesting and useful posts and articles on search / inbound marketing from the past week. Social Media & Content ...
Google+ Posts in Google Knowledge Graph Results
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 ...
How Google Will Replace Wikipedia: The Google Knowledge Graph
We’re in the early phases of moving from being an information engine to becoming a knowledge engine. – Johanna Wright, Google Product Management Director Google ...
Google+ Live Hangouts On Air Now Available to All
One of Google+‘s premier features, Hangouts (live video chat for up to 9 participants) got a major upgrade a few months ago with the introduction ...
The Impact of Social Media on SEO (Slideshow)
My slides (with added annotations) from a presentation I did for the Duke University Webcomm Group. I cover the growing influence of social media on ...
