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Mark Traphagen
Role: Director of Social Media
Dept: Social Media
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Latest Articles by Mark Traphagen
My New Social Web Flow: Buzz to Twitter to Facebook
I’ve been an enthusiastic early adopter of Google Buzz since it appeared in my Gmail inbox the day after its unveiling. As a one-time huge ...
How to Use Facebook as Your News Reader
UPDATED 2/23/2010 because of changes to Facebook’s user interface. Most everyone agrees that automatic feed systems such as RSS (Wikipedia) were a great leap forward ...
New Facebook Share Via a Boon for Marketers
I’ve written before about several areas where Facebook’s Pages feature falls short of its potential value to marketers because of missing or limited features. Among ...
Is Your Ad Split Testing Valid?
Among the most rudimentary, yet important, regular optimization tasks you should be doing for your pay-per-click advertising account is ad split testing. It is a ...
Why Do Paid Search Advertising?
If you’re a beginner at Internet advertising, or just someone who knows “I ought to be promoting my site…”, Search Engine Land offers Five Most ...
Top 5 Tips for Getting Started with Adwords
For those of us who have been immersed in the highly-complex world of Google’s AdWords for some time, it may be difficult to remember how ...
KGen Firefox Extension Shows Pages’ Potential Keywords
KGen is an extension for Firefox web browsers that displays the strongest keywords on a particular web page. Words on the page repeated more than ...
AdWords Quality Score: Don’t Just Look at the Number
If you’ve got some experience managing cost-per-click (Google’s term for pay-per-click) advertising using Google AdWords, you surely by now realize the high importance of optimizing ...
New Facebook Home Page: News Feed vs. Live Feed
Starting today (October 23) you should be seeing some important changes to your FB home page. You can now select between News Feed and Live ...
Marketers: Get Ready for Google Social Search
On October 21 Google announced at Web 2.0 Expo the coming-soon implementation of real-time Social Search incorporated into the regular search results page. Results will ...
Tip: Use News Feed Groups to Filter Your Feed
Overwhelmed by your News Feed? Too much to read? Facebook allows you to create groups of your friends so you can temporarily just see who ...
Classic Misuse of Dynamic Keyword Insertion
From a search on Google for the keyword “ball cancer” (in the Sponsored Results column): Next time I’m looking to buy cancer balls, I’ll know ...
TrueTwit Pre-Validate’s Your Twitter Followers
If you’re trying to do marketing on Twitter the “hard but right” way (i.e., actively engaging with and listening to followers instead of just link ...
New Facebook feature a help to spreading your message…sort of
I wrote a couple of months ago about some elements of fail in Facebook’s Pages feature from a marketing standpoint. A recent new feature at ...
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