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Mark Traphagen
Role: Director of Social Media
Dept: Social Media
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Latest Articles by Mark Traphagen
Authorshipocalypse! The Great Google Authorship Purge Has Begun
December 2013: Authorship in Search Results Gets Restricted UPDATE 21 January 2013: I have now published results of my study detailing who lost Google Authorship ...
Google Penguin Hunting: An Interview with Russ Jones, CTO of Virante
At Pubcon this October, John Rampton of Search Engine Journal interviewed Russ Jones, CTO of Virante, about how to Penguin-proof a website. The Google Penguin ...
Google Plus Update Event: 18 Major Upgrades to Google+
My live tweets from today’s Google Plus Update live event. Google’s Vic Gundotra announced 18 major upgrades to Google+, centerend around Hangouts, photos, and videos. ...
Google Author Rank: On? Not Yet? Why I Don’t Care
Google Author Rank: The Sasquatch of SEO When it comes to the topic of Google Author Rank and whether it is a reality today, the ...
Matt Cutts at Pubcon 2013: Authorship, Authority and the Future of Search
After reading several live blog notes (here and even better here) on the keynote address by Google’s Matt Cutts at Pubcon 2013 yesterday, I was seeing ...
Hey Pubcon: Here’s All My Google Authorship Content!
I’m hearing from a lot of my spies at Pubcon 2013 in Las Vegas that I’ve been getting shoutouts from a number of speakers, recommending ...
How to Be Social Without Stepping on Legal Landmines – Glen Gilmore
Presentation on Social Media Law by Glen Gilmore (@GlenGilmore) at ConvergeSouth 2013, Greensboro, North Carolina, 11 October 2013 Glen Gilmore is a social media strategist ...
Google Plus Page Verification Is Now Harder to Get, But Still Possible
Recently I posted on Google+ that we had discovered that the Google Plus Page Verification application page is now closed. In other words, they are ...
Penguin Penalty Checker: Introducing Penguin Analysis
New Penguin Penalty Checker Site Assess Your Google Penalty Risk Penguin Analysis is a new site that can help you assess how at risk your ...
Google Authorship Not a Ranking Factor (Yet): John Mueller
UPDATE 7 October 2013: At SMX East last week, in the Google Authorship session, Google Webmaster Trends Analyst Pierre Farr also confirmed that Google Authorship ...
Google Plus Posts in Search Results: What Causes Ranking?
How and why do certain Google+ Plus posts in search results do better than others? That’s been a question at the front of my attention ...
Powerful Personal Branding via Content, Social Networking, & SEO
Personal Brand Authority Is Key to Customer Connection Recently I was asked to give a workshop for entrepreneurs and startup business people at the Ewing ...
Google 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 ...
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