Putting the SEO Power of Google+ to Work by Mark Traphagen

PUTTING THE SEO

POWER OF

GOOGLE+

TO WORK

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Mark Traphagen

Virante

@MarkTraphagen

#SMX #21A

October 2, 2013

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Virante Web Marketing

Mark Traphagen - Director of Digital Outreach - #smx #21A

● 62,000 followers on

Google+

● Communities w/

combined membership

of 20,000+

● Top 500 US Google+

user (CircleCount.com)

Mark Traphagen | Virante.org | @marktraphagen - #smx #21A


Strikes against Author Rank as

present reality:

1. Low Authorship adoption



present reality:


2. Social signal parsing infancy



present reality:


2. Social signal parsing infancy

3. Mis-attribution


BUT...we want to have

subject authorities….


Hey, whazzup?


Secrets Revealed!


Profiles Have PageRank


Pages Have PageRank


Communities Have PageRank


Google+ Internal PR


Google+ External PR


Google+ Fitness &

Nutrition Community

4 Links on

High PR Blogs

Went from pg. 8 to

pg. 1 for

"fitness & nutrition"

(Stayed there 3 months!)


Google Authorship &

Author Rank Community

#1 for “google authorship and

author rank”

11,200 members (incl. many

high PR profiles)

320 external links/41 domains


www.prchecker.net


G+ PageRank

External Link Study

Thanks to Paul Shapiro for

data collection!

http://blog.paulnshapiro.co

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Profiles per PageRank Level


PR vs Majestic Citation Flow


PR vs Majestic Trust Flow


PR vs Citation & Trust Flow


Authorship vs. Non-Authorship PR


Authorship Is Link Building


G+ Posts Pass PR

Mark Traphagen | Virante.org | @marktraphagen

1 - My Google+ post

2 - Google+ page post

3 - Another Google+

post by me

4 - Share of Google+

post by friend

5 - Home page of site

6 - Inside page of site

7 - Another page of site

8 - Another page of site


Feb 6, 2012

bit.ly/gplusnetwork


Advantages of a strong

Google+ Network:

● More reshares

● More recommendations

● More personalization

influence

● Higher PageRank

authority in search

+1 Button on All Your Content


More +1 Magic



Google Authorship

link authority


Google+ Page Verification

Mark TraphagenDirector of Digital Outreach

Virante.org

Google.com/+MarkTraphagen

@MarkTraphagen

All My Google+ Guides:

bit.ly/GplusGuides

http://www.slideshare.net/SearchMarketingExpo

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