Pretty Awesome Indeed

Google has reintroduced the Author Stats into webmaster tools under the Labs section The Tool was removed by Google three months ago due to some bug. You can find it here http://goo.gl/yEH6y 

To enable authorship for your Google+ profile visit following page
https://plus.google.com/authorship

h/t +Rahul Roy for the OP

In Honor of Neil Armstrong
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Are you a Google+ X-Person?

See the Ripple expand over a short 48 period of time

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@Surfing With Whales | Ride Of The Week Ep 2

saying Hi... to all #surflovers   #plussers   #animatedgif     #googleplus       #mentor  
and

From a goobie, I would like to give my special thanks and respect to this great mentors in Google Plus World: 

+Guy Kawasaki 
+Jens Graikowski 
+Mark Traphagen 
+Matt Steiner 
+Miguel Ricardo 
+Onkar Singh Gujral 
+Rahul Roy 
+Ronnie Bincer 
+Sara McKinley 
+Shamil Weerakoon 

not forgetting 
+Rodney Pike 
+CircleCount 
+Google+ 

I`m learning everyday ☺

This SlideShare Deck was posted January 2012 ♦ 27,000 views later the term web 2.0 link wheel has morphed from links to shares ♦ the process is still OK but the deployment tactics have changed a lot in 16 months now that rel=author and http://bit.ly/RichSnippet is alive and well

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PageRank, Link Juice & SEO for Google+ Communities.
Can PageRank save G+ Communities becoming FB link farms?

① G+ Communities have PageRank, another Aha! Moment.
② Is PR in communities a good thing, or is it a bad thing?
③ Automated posts are the perfect recipe for ZERO PageRank.
④ Why didn't G make all links in Communities nofollow?
⑤ Are embedded links the scourge of G+ Communities?
⑥ Most of the best community posts are not embedded.
⑦ Pages get a +1 per every member of their community.
⑧ Google+ PageRank Hang Out Activity online coming Tues.
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Part 5, of my Google+ PageRank (G+PR) series.
If new to this series I suggest you read Part 1-4 at the bottom.
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If this series helps you please share it! As I explain why teaching your network about PR & Quality content helps improves yours.
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① G+ Communities have PR was another Aha! Moment.
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    Quality & engagement is something I covered previously as important to acquiring good PageRank. Nowhere is this more apparent & applicable than when we start talking about Communities.

    While analyzing some Google search results-a favorite pass time of mine, or a bad habit, I don't know which-I noticed a link I had shared of the PageRank Part 3, article that outranked my own post and realized that was only possible if the community had PageRank. In other words, if I share my own post (all other things be equal, which they would), my own share should not outrank the same post unless it is getting Google juice from somewhere. 

    Turns out that was exactly right. The community I shared it in, Google Authorship & AuthorRank had a PR3. Realizing this and the implications it could have on posting in communities was quite an, Aha! Moment. Well, why shouldn't they have it? Forums and many other public social groups have PR as well.

    You might wonder if they can give PR as well, or bleed it. Well sure, they would have to be able to, based on basic PR principles. If they can get PR, they also have to give it. Or else you'd just have communities collecting & collecting PR forever till they outrank everything. No, that wouldn't work.


② Is PR in communities a good thing, or is it a bad thing?
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The next question though, "is that a good thing, or a bad thing?"

Won't it just attract more spammers and link dumpers?
Doesn't that raise red flags to come raid communities for juice?
And what if G+ Communities turned into Facebook groups?

Now that would be just awful! I just pulled up an article that said there was 600 million FB groups back in 2010, there are probably billions now. No doubt producing many billions of automated spam posts that nobody reads.

I still have one of them with a few thousand people that a handful of users just dump automated posts into everyday with HootSuite, or some such nasty spam apps. :-D Ok!--Can somebody please, please, help me out here?! I need to understand exactly, what is the purpose of that???

"Hello? Anybody in there? Think, McFly! Think!"

    Granted, they're not all bad. I also have good Facebook groups that are regularly used for quality discussions, but in order to achieve that I had to be very proactive about removing spammers & usually just not letting them in, in the first place. I found that if it was a local group, pretty much anyone requesting to join from outside of that area, or anyone with a new, or blocked profile, or anyone with promotions posted all over their wall, were just requesting to link dump. "Thank you, but there are restrooms for that."

    I think PageRanking G+ Communities is pure GENIUS. Imagine, in one fell swoop, <click><PageRank Active> Google has solved the spam problems that could otherwise cost billions of dollars in man power & not to mention wasted bandwidth, hardware storage space & the list goes on...


③ Automated posts, perfect recipe for ZERO PageRank.
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    While we're talking about automated posts, let me emphasis this specific point for everyone's benefit. Of one thing you can be sure, from everything we know about Google+ and PageRank, it is quite clear that any kind of automated & uninvolved posting of embedded links would be the perfect recipe for draining your PR to below ZERO.

    Now I'm NOT referring to all unattended posting, for example it could be useful to schedule a post of something important if you're trying to get it out at that perfect time of day when most people are active on G+, but you're going to be in a meeting, or travelling in a different time zone, etc. But these should certainly be the exception & not the rule.

    There could even be people who are very active engaging in the social networks, but still use it and then later come back and answer all the replies. So I'm NOT talking about these people. I'm talking very specifically about the millions of people who use it, because they don't have time to social network & they think that will replace it.

    So do yourself a favor here!-Don't do it for me, don't do it for the Communities, don't do it for all the people you're annoying with them & don't do it to stop the epidemic level of social networks pollution.- Stop Using Automated Posts for your selfish self. ;-) <shh...pulling a little psychology here...he, he, he.>

    Truth is, "the king has no clothes" & you might be the last to see it, because everyone almost immediately recognizes the automated posts & few people, if any at all, will comment & discuss on them, because they quickly realize no one's home. FB is at least been clever enough to label them as being from Hootsuite, or whichever App. and that's become one of the clearest spam flags to date.


④ Why didn't G make all links in Communities nofollow?
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    After seeing the disaster that was Facebook Groups, some people might reasonably wonder, "Why didn't Google just make all the links in Communities nofollow?"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow

    Well, they did even better than that. They very cleverly gave moderators a choice & that specific choice is, whether to allow embedded links.

    I believe PageRank in communities is an ingenious idea, that once realized will cause community moderators to prevent their communities from turning into worthless link farms & instead make them useful, quality, original content, discussion groups. Frankly from the standpoint of quality & discussions, PR in G+ Communities seems to be the best thing that could have ever been added to them.

     *I'll go even further than that & say, PR in Communities could well become the biggest single factor that will prevent G+ Communities from turning into automated Facebook Link Farms.*

    Remember, Google hates link farms! Nobody uses, or likes them, they plague the natural positive citation concept for which PageRank was invented, the waste volumes of Internet resources & more.


⑤ Are embedded links the scourge of G+ Communities?
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     *IMHO, embedded links have been the scourge of G+ Communities since they started.* From my personal observation, I'd guess about 70% of them are posted by users (we could almost call them bots) who do not even post an accompanying discussion, or introduction & seldom get involved in anyone else's discussions. "No, I wasn't talking about you." There are of course some really engaging quality content providers that do it & they use them right, but they are more the exception than the rule.

    I can see some people out there screaming while reading this. "How could our beloved +Joshua Berg spearhead a campaign to reduce posting of embedded links in Communities when they're the best thing that's ever happened to SEO in G+?" After all, SEOMOZ says that's the best way to SEO your posts to your blog, among others. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/tips-to-use-google-for-seo

   *Well, I'm not and certainly I would not mind them occasionally in my own communities, only by engaging users who regularly give back to it as well.* But for users who just embed the same links again & again in many different Communities, with no accompanying discussion, or engagement, well that's just littering. So let's get this clear here, OK? "Joshua" is talking about link littering, link dumping & some of the best ways to prevent it. While at the same time we know that, as moderators it can be quite difficult to enforce rules unevenly & sometimes we just have to make decisions across the board for the sake of simplicity. Those will be decisions they'll have to make.

    Of course let's not forget video, YouTube posts, etc. Those have to be embedded, or they won't work period. So embedding links absolutely has many positive aspects.

    Yes, embedded links are good for SEO, that's the whole idea. They provide you the one opportunity to use that precious PageRank juice you've been saving up & send it to your website. Of course everyone can still do it all they want in their own streams (own profile), but in my communities I'm gonna say I'd rather you not do it unless you've earned the privilege through quality engagement & contributions. Certainly not on your first post in!

    I know, some of you are asking, "What are embedded links? When you put a link (any URL) in a post, Google automatically formats (some use the term populates) it & then you see the image of that link and the title and sub-title from that link's Meta Tags, at the bottom of your post.

    There are other ways to make those posts. You can post a picture instead & use the link in your post, but not embedded. It will be nofollow.


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    Think of all the most useful & interesting posts that you've seen in Google+ and chances are, most of them were posted with a nice big eye catching picture & not an embedded link. With this series of PageRank articles for example I've posted all of them with pictures, except for the second part that just linked to the first article.

    And why? Well pictures in a post are far more attractive & attention getting and I don't doubt have a higher reader ratio, or what we might call CTR (Click Through Rate).

    What are G+ Communities for anyway? Well, they're for discussion. Am I right? At least that's what I thought. If people want to post embedded posts & their daily blog of animals, or their favorite business statistics, or daily interest rates, stock prices, etc, well they have their own streams they can do that in all day. Then everyone that just loves those kind of posts, can add them to their "BFF Circles".

    Do you think some people actually don't realize that 7 links over from the words Google+ is the word News, where I can instantly see 2,342 articles of the exact topic that's just been proudly announced?


⑦ Community link structures analyzed & PR speculating.
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    Of course this article would not be complete with out me doing a little analyzing & speculating. It's easy to see how Communities could give away their PR, but where do they get it from? That was a question I poured over quite a bit. Since we know that PageRank is a link based algorithm, the first place we have to start looking is the links.

    While looking at the link structure of the posts, I was surprised by some very interesting observations. I think this is another one of those eye opening moments, but maybe I'm just the last one to realize it. ;-)

    Ready? Dum-ta-da-dum... You don't post in the Community, you're posting in your own stream & there's a kind of link back specifically to the community category it was posted in. Sure we could say that a few different ways & that's not exactly accurate, but what I'm talking about here is the URL (link) structure & also the way the posts show up later in Google Search still addressed specifically to that poster's profile.

    So now we're going to analyze a post of mine posted in a specific community. This post was made to the Google Authorship & AuthorRank community,* which by the way has very good PR. Not just because it is well moderated and has lots of great engagement, but we can also deduce that it's because many high PR users post there. Hmm... Interesting! <eyes light up>

    As we're analyzing this from a search optimizing perspective, I'm starting with how all of the parts show up in Google Search. For example, when we search for the community, "Google Authorship...", the main community link shows up like below. When we search for a specific category, we get what is labeled in the URL as a "stream". When we search for that specific post that went in that community, it shows up as that specific poster's URL.


First there is a single Community Link that looks like this:
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https://plus.google.com/communities/104474428845467390263
Header: [Google Authorship & Author Rank - Google+]


Then there are Category Links that are called streams:
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https://plus.google.com/communities/104474428845467390263/stream/f6a897a4-219f-46a8-ac7c-fa6b1189a343
Header: [Google Authorship & Author Rank - Authorship How Tos - Google+]

Notice how when the category appears in Google Search, it is titled with the communities name first - then the category title - then Google+. This means the name of each category also has very big implications for the SEO of your community & their topics.

Do you see how in the example here, several words appear repeatedly, at some point you could also be overdoing that. You probably wouldn't want to name a community, Overused Keyword & then it's category Overused Keyword & then your post, Overused Keyword. So you can see how community category names could be quite keyword important, but you also don't want to end up stuffing.

This is also relevant because the default community category starts as General Discussion: Now imagine how many billions of posts with the irrelevant words General Discussion there probably are, or going to be.

Hmm. I predict we're mysteriously going to see a lot of renaming in Communities after this. Not that I've started any other fads that have been going around lately. LOL.

I also speculate that categories appear to have their own PR by the way they rank differently, which they would. Every post, like every page on the wider Web, also has it's own PR. It's just that the PR Toolbar blanks them out in PR Toolbar so far & only shows PR by the Profile, Page, or Community.

Then there are the community's Posts:
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https://plus.google.com/110133760398936676625/posts/fbcBNk49w26
Header: [Google Authorship & Author Rank - General Discussion - Google+]

Each post is URL identified by the poster, not the community, but contains a kind of back link to the individual stream:
https://plus.google.com/communities/104474428845467390263/stream/0e81855a-8f47-4378-883f-da0df90f65d6

*Note: These URL's however are not labeled the same as all other links.

This is where I speculate the Community gets it's PR (or Google juice) from. So every time a user puts up a post in a community, they're giving a little of their own PR to that community. This is how the whole principle of PR works, given & received.

However (this is me speculating again), when a user posts an embedded link with that post in that category's stream, they may be giving away some of the PR from that stream (in other words community) & presumably from their own profile as well. Because in PR links proportionality divide the PR of any page they're posted in. So they'd be spreading the PR of that post between 3, instead of 2.

In conclusion: Those are just theories and some interested SEO guys will probably want to get more into that, analyzing the link structure & the way PR is passed between them. I think it's safe to say though, those are certainly some of the ingredients in the pudding.


⑦ Pages get a +1 per every member of their community.
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    While we're analyzing Communities, here's some other interesting details.

    When a business page is made owner of a community, the business page receives a new +1 per every member added to that specific community. But what else could they get? Can they receive Google juice?

    Frankly, we don't know, but I have not seen any perceivable ranking benefit, though it's certainly a great promotion for the business page to appear at the top of a community where everyone can see it.


⑧ Google+ PageRank Hang Out Activity online for this.
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Stay tuned for cool stuff in Part 6 coming soon... While writing this I had so much additional interesting stuff, that I decided to start putting it into another post instead. So Part 6 of this G+ PageRank series is on the way.

People have been asking about a HOA on this where everyone can get a visual of us discussing these things. So Ronnie Bincer has invited Mark Traphagen and I, to do a live event this coming Tues.

The event details are here: https://plus.google.com/events/cfd9087kp7ottm13g87q0h8fhq4


★★★★★ Lastly & importantly, please SHARE this post!
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There's just too much good stuff here to keep to yourself.

Those that share this series, will also be added to my top circle that I fondly call, My Favorite Sharers & Engagers. From time to time I'll be sharing & promoting this circle of my favorite engaging users as well.


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Pt 1: Is Google+ Page Rank the culprit behind the current ... http://goo.gl/R4TZM

Pt 2: How PageRank in Google+ is Earned. G+ Link Myths...
http://goo.gl/0YcDp

Pt 3: Why PR in G+ Matters To You & Your Connections.
http://goo.gl/zHKhx

Pt 4: PR in G+ - PageRank is Still Guts of Google Search.
http://goo.gl/uMcuo
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My disclaimers...
Some things I write (ie. PR) are facts well known among SEO experts, others are just ideas & opposing theories are all welcome below.
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#pagerank #googlepagerank   #communities   #gpluscommunties   #communityseo   #Gplusseo   #seotips   #googleplusseo more marketing tips at +HousesFast

What are the many moving parts of Social SEO

http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/6655097/Social_SEO

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Excellent find + share +Mike Arnesen on my way to the command center 

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Google+ sharing just got real! Check out this post on Interactive Posts and download +SwellPath's Command Center tool to publish them on the fly.

Being able to add Google+ Comments to any website opens the door for a lot more social signals to emanate from your G+ Snippet in the form of Comments

The ratio of +1 signals to Comments on any given G+ post must be 10 to 1 or more (at least on my Stream)

h/t to one of the best G+ Hounds +Eli Fennell for the OP

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More ► http://factsnmyths.com/

Scoop.it via WordPress @ SoLoVo

this is a mini content synd showing how simple it is to curate to Scoop and synd to WP.com in a couple clicks of the mouse

#cmtip  

1st time I've seen this do not share outside of Google RED alert on YT

the best guy I know when it comes to YT video expertise is +Ronnie Bincer and if you know what triggers this do not share alert Ronnie • do tell?

Prelim Tests on this Initial Set of Interactive Images look Promising

Hover Rate 55%
CTR 10%

See more http://bit.ly/W7eI6S 

#cmtip  

An Oscar winning article on Why Attorneys Must Embrace Social Media

like +Anthony Castelli said • if you want to survive in the space you need to get social • I would argue the G+ profile and the http://bit.ly/RichSnippet linked to the rel=author credentials who generate 25,000 social signals between now and 6 months from now ♠ will have a much better chance of influencing the SERPS than those with less social signals + social shares

The 1st Affair
A married man was having an affair
with his secretary.

One day they went to her place
and made love all afternoon.

Exhausted, they fell asleep
and woke up at 8 PM.

The man hurriedly dressed
and told his lover to take his shoes
outside and rub them in the grass and dirt.

He put on his shoes and drove home.

'Where have you been?' his wife demanded.

'I can't lie to you,' he replied,

'I'm having an affair with my secretary.
We had sex all afternoon.'

She looked down at his shoes and said:

'You lying  *^*% !!!
You've been playing golf!'



The 2nd Affair

A middle-aged couple had two beautiful daughters but always talked about having a son.

They decided to try one last time
for the son they always wanted

The wife got pregnant
and delivered a healthy baby boy.

The joyful father rushed to the nursery to see his new son.

He was horrified at the ugliest child
he had ever seen.

He told his wife: 'There's no way I can be the father of this baby.
Look at the two beautiful daughters I fathered!
Have you been fooling around behind my back?'

The wife smiled sweetly and replied:
'No, not this time!'


The 3rd Affair

A mortician was working late one night.

He examined the body of Mr. Schwartz,
about to be cremated,
and made a startling discovery.
Schwartz had the largest private part
he had ever seen!

'I'm sorry Mr. Schwartz,' the mortician commented, 'I can't allow you to be cremated with such an impressive private part.
It must be saved for posterity.'

So, he removed it,
stuffed it into his briefcase,
and took it home.

'I have something to show
you won't believe,' he said to his wife, opening his briefcase.

'My God!' the wife exclaimed,
'Schwartz is dead!'


The 4th Affair

A woman was in bed with her lover
when she heard her husband
opening the front door.

'Hurry,' she said, 'stand in the corner.'

She rubbed baby oil all over him,
then dusted him with talcum powder.

'Don't move until I tell you,'
she said. 'Pretend you're a statue.'

'What's this?' the husband inquired
as he entered the room.

'Oh it's a statue,' she replied.
'The Smiths bought one and I liked it
so I got one for us, too.'

No more was said,
not even when they went to bed.

Around 2 AM the husband got up,
went to the kitchen and returned
with a sandwich and a beer.

'Here,' he said to the statue, 'have this.
I stood like that for two days at the Smiths
and nobody offered me a damned thing.'


The 5th Affair

A man walked into a cafe,
went to the bar and ordered a beer.

'Certainly, Sir, that'll be one cent.'

'One Cent?' the man exclaimed.

He glanced at the menu and asked:
'How much for a nice juicy steak
and a bottle of wine?'

'A nickel,' the barman replied.

'A nickel?' exclaimed the man.
'Where's the guy who owns this place?'

The bartender replied:
'Upstairs, with my wife.'

The man asked: 'What's he doing upstairs
with your wife?'

The bartender replied:
'The same thing I'm doing
to his business down here.'


The 6th & Best Affair

Jake was dying. His wife sat at the bedside.

He looked up and said weakly:
'I have something I must confess.'

'There's no need to, 'his wife replied.

'No,' he insisted,
'I want to die in peace.
I slept with your sister, your best friend,
her best friend, and your mother!'

'I know,' she replied.
'Now just rest and let the poison work.'

Thanks to +Stephan Hovnanian post on Google Header Cheat Sheet I can see a little more clearly now how and why Google Ripples can be used to ID other Plussers who should be added to a Circle on G+

Thought Leaders are easy to ID + engage using conventional social tactics

Those who have a less popular status are not so easy to ID and engage unless you can find a common thread and this is one of them

Southern Cops do have a way with words

These are actual comments made by South Carolina Troopers that were taken off their car videos

1. "You know, stop lights don't come any redder than the one you just went through."

2. "Relax, the handcuffs are tight because they're new. They'll stretch after you wear them a while."

3. "If you take your hands off the car, I'll make your birth certificate a worthless document." (My Favorite)

4. "If you run, you'll only go to jail tired."

5. "Can you run faster than 1200 feet per second? Because that's the speed of the bullet that'll be chasing you." (LOVE IT)

6. "You don't know how fast you were going? I guess that means I can write anything I want to on the ticket, huh?"

7. "Yes, sir, you can talk to the shift supervisor, but I don't think it will help. Oh, did I mention that I'm the shift supervisor?"

8. "Warning! You want a warning? O.K, I'm warning you not to do that again or I'll give you another ticket."

9. "The answer to this last question will determine whether you are drunk or not. Was Mickey Mouse a cat or a dog?"

10. "Fair? You want me to be fair? Listen, fair is a place where you go to ride on rides, eat cotton candy and corn dogs and step in monkey poop."

11. "Yeah, we have a quota. Two more tickets and my wife gets a toaster oven."

12. "In God we trust; all others we run through NCIC." ( National Crime Information Center)

13. "Just how big were those 'two beers' you say you had?"

14. "No sir, we don't have quotas anymore. We used to, but now we're allowed to write as many tickets as we can."

15. "I'm glad to hear that the Chief (of Police) is a personal friend of yours. So you know someone who can post your bail."

AND THE WINNER IS

16. "You didn't think we give pretty women tickets? You're right, we don't. Sign here.

There are 1,515 Personal Injury Attorneys on Plus 
My Page 1 Feed to Date

+David Slepkow 
+William Bill Hurst 
+Anthony Castelli 
+Jonathan Rosenfeld 
+Ron Miller 
+Christopher Zachar 

5 Web Design Trends using Visibli which is now SharedBy

http://jnferree.sharedby.co/share/PP4JEH

the sharedby social toolbar travels with your top social icons connected and   when you shares your custom URL on Plus • the meta can be customized which adds a nice layer to your Authorship

#cmtip  

source: +Jason Resnick 

I have just started to use this amazing service. Give it a try!

Best of Class WP Plugins (Newly acquired)

◘ Digg-Digg
◘ Hello Bar
◘ The Slide
◘ Social Metrics

Too much self serving promo is not the way to go • not exactly a big secret but its still done way too much by some • make sure your name is not on the list

We discussed how Pi guys are well suited for using SlideShare vs. Pinterest for putting together a SS preso (argument) and syndicating it to your top socials • in this case I grabbed (curated) the embed code on this SS preso from +Ann Smarty on Author Rank (rel=publisher) and dropped it into my WP.com feeder blog that auto-posts to LI, T and FB

44 slides < 3 minutes to review 

http://jnferree.wordpress.com/2013/02/22/google-author-rank-is-more-important-today-than-is-was-yesterday/

#cmtip  

I Think You're The Father of One of My Kids

A guy goes to the supermarket and notices a very attractive woman waving at him.

She says, 'Hello.'

He's rather taken aback because he can't place where he knows her from. So he asks, 'Do you know me?'

To which she replies, 'I think you're the father of one of my kids.'

Now his mind travels back to the only time he has ever been unfaithful to his wife.

So he asks, 'Are you the stripper from the bachelor party that I made love to on the pool table, with all my buddies watching, while your partner whipped my butt with wet celery?'

She looks into his eyes and says calmly, No, I'm your son's teacher

Circle Management using CircleCentric Marketing

#cmtip  

The tool that creates an RSS called MyGplusFeed can be used by the Chrome extension so you can easily inventory + share your G+ posts

If you click the drop down • you can see your H1 Titles of your last 10 posts on Plus which may or may not give you insight into why some posts attract social sigs + shares and some don't

Does this help +Neal Schaffer 

Breaking News will sometimes trigger your timely content to show up in the organic SERPs faster than before and your G+ stream is def in play on this

#cmtip  

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New Google Header Cheat Sheet

Strong work +Stephan Hovnanian 

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Tips for switching so the important stuff doesn't get covered up!

Obviously with the huge amount of real estate we have in this latest Google+ update, business pages and personal brands have the opportunity to really put together an awesome message and story.

So, I took the morning off after finally getting the new profile, and "sketched" out a style guide. Here you go!

Hopefully I'll turn this into a more official blog post, but I figured I'd save everybody the headache. You should be able to download this photo, load it into Photoshop, and then create your own based off the color blocks. Any questions I'll do my best to help!

#googleplusupdate   #gplusupdate   #Profile  

How Search Works according to Google and this Interactive Map

http://www.google.com/insidesearch/howsearchworks/thestory/

Scroll to see the Story

#cmtip   #socialmedia  

Its a little soon to put much equity into driving traffic from a direct G+ search (but) a Year from now You'll wish you started today adding contextual content to your G+ content bucket and the social shares that come with it

https://plus.google.com/u/0/s/%23socialmedia/people

searching G+ for the hashtag #socialmedia  shows the top Plussers who are recognized and add social media content to the stream

#authorship  

Should I be angry or flattered this fellow from the UK copied my article A to Z and posted it to his Blogger site as if it were his own?

I seeded the longtail Social Shares is the New SEO back on February 2012 via the article social shares is becoming the new seo the on-page optimization seo using [tags, title, description, meta] and now 14 months later • 7 of the 10 SERP's for this longtail are "in-house"

http://www.ferreemoney.com/blog/social-shares-is-becoming-the-new-seo/

h/t to all things social seo

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What it's like to climb the Great Pyramids.

It's illegal to climb Egypt's Great Pyramids, a crime punishable by up to three years in prison.

But some Russian guys did it anyway, and took some amazing pictures.

http://raskalov-vit.livejournal.com/131308.html#cutid1

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An excellent Hashtag Dos + Don'ts on G+ by +Ronnie Bincer 

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What's a Google+ #Hashtag - And Why Should I Care?

Hashtags: What are they used for? - Organization / Finding Stuff
Hashtags: How can I use them? - In Google+ Search
Hashtags: How can I make them? Use the # symbol with a 'word'
Hashtags: How can I find just my stuff with them? - Filter Your Search
Hashtags: Where they do NOT work! - They don't work in comments [edit... they DO work in comments NOW!]
Hashtags: How can I find just my Friend's stuff with them? - Filter Search using Hashtags and Circles

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Hashtags: What are they used for?
Hashtags are useful inside Google Plus because they help you Find Posts that use them. They help you Organize Posts that use them.

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Hashtags: How can I use them?
Use the Google Plus Search box up top and type a particular hashtag into the search box, then search (press the blue magnifying glass button). Or you can simply Click on a hashtag in the post and it will load that into Google+ Search and start the search for you.

If you follow me, you may see at the end of most of my posts the following type of stuff: O #hastags #googleplustips O

That is my way of helping You and Me find my posts later. Or find other people's posts that happened to use that same hashtag you searched for.

If I write a lot of posts, and I add hashtags to them, then I can easily find them later by searching for my hashtag. For example, I could search for #googleplustips or #youtubetips . These are common ones I use because I post a lot on those topics.

Try it, Search for #youtubetips or #googleplustips and you will see loads of posts that focus on those topics... written by Anyone that happened to use that particular #hashtag in their post. (just click on the blue link)

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Hashtags: How can I make them?
Making a hashtag is simple, it requires you to follow 2 rules:
1) Start your hashtag with the # symbol
2) End your hashtag with the space or tab key

Your hashtag can be anything you want it to be. It just has to start with the # symbol and it can not contain any spaces (or some other special characters like the + or the - character are also not allowed). You will know it worked when after you finish typing it, it changes to a Blue Colored text thingy surrounded by a grey box. You did it, you made a hashtag!

Make unique ones Just for you or make more common ones for other people to find your stuff as well. Upper or lower case doesn't seem to matter, so I usually will use only lowercase unless I'm trying to get cute, like when I use this one to represent the Integration of Google + YouTube + Google Plus with this hashtag: #GooTubePlus (I wanted to use the + symbol but it would not work consistently as the + is not always allowed as part of a hash tag, it tends to mess up in edits).

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Hashtags: How can I find just my stuff with them?
If I only want to see my own posts (that use a particular hashtag) here's how I can do that:
After I do a Google+ Search for a particular hashtag I can then refine my search results more by filtering those search results. I do this by choosing the 'From You' drop-down choice - after a search has been performed.

This limits (or refines/filters) my search results to show only those that I have posted (From You) and that contain the particular hashtag I searched for initially.

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Hashtags: Where they do NOT work!
         [edit: they DO work as a marker in Comments now... ]
They do not seem to work when you add them into comments you make on yours or other people's posts. That is a bummer, because I or someone else may make a profound comment about a #newongoogleplus thing and might want to get back to that comment later via a hashtag search - sorry it won't work! [Glad to say they now work in comments as a 'marker']

Tip: It does work if you go back and Edit Your Post. You can add them later (like you may want to now on some of your prior posts) via the Edit option and once you save the edit, the new hashtag instantly is available for search.

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Hashtags: How can I find just my Friend's stuff with them?
This is more of an advanced use of Google+ Hashtags... You can even save your work here and keep the hashtag search for later as a Saved Search.

Just like we talked about earlier, you can Refine a Hashtag Search by choosing options after the search was performed. This time instead of using the Filter/Refinement choice we used above of 'From You'... we will choose to use the option named 'From Your Circles'.

As an example: If you have me in a circle of helpful Video SEO people or YouTube people, and you search for the hashtag #youtubetips , you can further refine that search by adding the drop-down choice of From your circles. If you find that Refined Search to be helpful and you may want to return to it often, you can Save This Search with the Red Button named that way. Then using the Explore option or other ways of finding your saved searches you can easily call upon that particular search at any time in the future.

Please realize that if someone from outside your circles Shared a hash-tagged post made by someone who is in your circles then you may see their shared post because what they shared originated from within your circles... not a bad way of discovering others that share your 'friend's stuff' maybe they are a good candidate to add to your circles too!

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Summary
Google+ can be a big place. There is a lot of helpful information being passed about, so using hashtags in your own posts or finding posts that others have kindly added hashtags in will help you 'find that post' from that other guy/gal/place more easily in the future.

I hope that this post on using Google+ Hashtags has inspired you to search for them and add them to your own future postings. Maybe you now understand the value of them such that you will go back to some of your more important posts you wrote earlier and edit/add some hashtags to them now, before you forget you wrote them!

Whew - you made it this far... obviously you are interested... here is a link to a valuable update - Google+ Hashtags and Your Privacy... some good news here: https://plus.google.com/108210288375340023376/posts/C3sdr2cVVHi

Please share this post with those you think may benefit from it and Add Your Comments below if you think this post will be helpful to you. Also feel free to add a comment as to how you use or plan to use hashtags in the future.

If you like what I wrote here, and you want more... 1) Add me to your Circles, 2) Click on my most common hashtags: #googleplustips & #youtubetips 3) Sort the G+ Search Results by 'From your circles', 4) Enjoy!

Enjoy Google+ and the Power of The Hashtag!

O #googleplustips #hashtags #hashtagtips O

Google Plus perspective from +Jaana Nyström by way of Scoop.it and the breadcrumb • Scoop Reaction WordPress.com to Plus for the #cmtip  

http://jnferree.wordpress.com/2013/03/05/brands-need-a-wake-up-call-on-google-plus/

Personal Injury Lawsuit Flowchart

#personalinjury   #cmtip  

Get a DoFollow Link on Plus by using the "Add Link" icon vs. Body only → although both is probably better

#cmtip  

We already knew its a good idea to use well placed #hashtags in our posts • and with the new Google+ UI • they auto suggest hastags you might consider adding to your Post

The Impact Author Rank will have on Social Shares + Social Signals + SEO
Bit.ly Bundle of these Author Articles ◘ http://bitly.com/bundles/ferreemoney/h

Some SEO guys know How to Get Ranked on Page 1 of Google for a long tail keyword phrase and some don't • Some SEO guy think this is a good idea • some don't • I do

Content Marketing and Google+ are Social SEO in Motion

#cmtip  

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Using GIMP to create GIF files

Not all of us have Adobe Photoshop, but GIMP(gimp.org) is a free software that comes pretty close to matching most of it's abilities. I couldn't find a tutorial for how to use it to make GIF files (the first step to making Cinemagraphs), so here's what I learned tonight. 

I wanted to start simple, so I grabbed 4 images that I wanted to turn into the GIF. 
1. Open GIMP
2. Open the Window for Histogram (Which shows layers)
3. Add an image
4. Create a second layer, and paste your 2nd image and then use the Anchor the floating layer option.
5. Repeat for the remaining layers
6. (I name the layers frame 1-10 but I DON'T know if that's neccesary)
7. Preview the GIF by going to Filters, Animation, Playback. 
8. File, Export, Choose GIF format
9. Check off As Animated
10. Check Loop forever
11. Choose delay between frames to speed up or slow down the speed between frames.
12. Export.

Google+ has an immediate impact on SEO results

When it comes to Google Search, You are becoming more important than your domain name. When I say You, I mean the way that Google views You. If you have established yourself as a valued contributor to Google+, the content that you share on Google+ has a better chance of ranking highly in Google Search results, immediately

You are the Brand so you want your http://bit.ly/RichSnippet set-up Right

Social SEO done right is your Sustainable SEO model

How to Turn Off Community Notifications

having joined ½ dozen communities • my little red notifications box kicked into over-drive with a bunch of thx for the invite so I wanted to halt the community alerts but not my plus stream alerts • maybe you want to also?

If you peel back a layer or 2 of +Martin W. Smith Scoop.it presence → you'll see his Top 6 Topics have 3,000+ views each since he creates and curates and syndicates excellent content on a consistent basic (aka) the perfect storm.

What I especially like about this piece is the revelation on how Story Telling is the New SEO and that Martin uses 2 of my favorite tools (aka) Scoop.it and SlideShare Web 2 properties (and) while I've only had 1 SlideShare preso make the featured deck of the day once → when you get it right and land on the trending roster → good sh^t happens!

#cmtip  

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Probably applicable in all 50 states and pretty funny + clever too boot!

h/t +Ron Miller for the timely share 

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Dating goes mobile - literally! #Pittsburgh   #Singlemoms   #Singledads  

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Must READ Out-Loud

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Where does Google Rank your G+ Profile on Plus?

[test case for]

♦ social shares
♦ social signals
♦ social media marketing

this is an unscientific social SEO test to see who is the top Plussers for a hat trick set of the 3 search phrase above

there are a variations of these results • these are people and pages but you can alter the feed and select other options • my interest was to find out where my profile showed up via incognito for these three search terms

#getranked  

Setting up a Twylah page is pretty straight forward like +Anthony Castelli did on his http://www.twylah.com/castellilaw Twylah page ♦ What I found to be an effective technique is to enable the Power Tweet bookmarklet which lets you to populate your page with fresh + engaging content beyond the topics you code into your Twylah page

Take it a step further and sync up your Power Tweet to the BufferApp so you can schedule your Tweets ♦ once you've scanned your Twitter account using SocialBro http://www.socialbro.com/best-time-tweet to discover your best time to tweet as well as

A Social Bro scan will provide you with metrics on;

• Best Time to Tweet
• Followers Online by HOUR
• Followers Online Day of the Week
• Exposure by Hour
• Exposure by Day of the Week
• ReTweet by Hour
• ReTweet by Day of the Week
• Reach by Hour
• Reach by Day of the Week

I worked up this Social SEO http://bit.ly/SocialSharesMindMap that speaks to all of the above and a few other semi-automated social media routines as it relates to generating social shares + social signals

I might live in So California → but it wouldn't matter if I lived in Timbuktu 

A small $50 donation → You helped pay for the favorite part of the Prom... walking down the Red Carpet to the cheering paparazzi! We present you with a Thank You card and pictures highlighting the awesomeness of our Honored Guests and Hosts.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/honoring-students-with-special-needs/contributions/new

h/t +Guy Kawasaki and +Anthony Castelli and +Chris Brogan 

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Amazing + Awesomeness All in One

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what do you think?  smart car design for someone in a wheelchair

The size of the font of a word in a wordcloud indicates that word is more prominent in the article than the smaller font size words → guess what this blog post article is about?

http://timc.idv.tw/wordcloud/en/#html:http://www.ferreemoney.com

Not your every day walk in closet • Daughter #3 put the final touches on what she calls The Lair and where she suits up for her Ford Modeling gigs in SoCal Not too shabby for an 18 y.o. girl who drives 100 miles a day in LA to suit up + show up for her hi-end cat walk castings

http://private.fordmodels.com/portfolios/39080/45a7?division=24

Amanda Riley #FordModels  

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Not all Twitter layouts are created equal
Wouldn't you agree +Sarah Lee 

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Jan `13 Google Plussers by Alphabet ♦ h/t +Mark Traphagen for the Tip

+AJ Kohn 
+Ronnie Bincer 
+Anthony Castelli 
+Denis Labelle 
+Michael Ehline 
+Rand Fishkin 
+Gabriel Vasile 
+Sarah Hill 
+Ivan Dimitrijević 
+Jim Connolly 
+Guy Kawasaki 
+Lee Smallwood 
+Mark Traphagen 
+Neal Schaffer 
+Jeremiah Owyang 
+Jorgen Poulsen 
+Sean Quinn 
+Al Remetch 
+Brendan Schneider 
+Mark Traphagen 
+Robin Uram 
+Gabriel Vasile 
+Andre van Wyk 
+Xaser Nixeus 
+Lynette Young 
+Yonatan Zunger 

How to Build a DiY Content Marketing System to Increase your Social SEO Appeal

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If we can't monetize longtail KW search on Google anymore → the next best thing is to curate + syndicate + connect on top socials + go direct #jnferree   #cmtip  

Scoop.it synced to Commun.it synced up with your WP content + categories let's you tap into the right social dialogue so you can get a social social signal that matures into a social share that leads to a social engagement that finally turns into an OK to "talk shop" at some level • be it advocate, market influencer, prospective client, associate, vendor, virtual assistant or whatever detail you're scribed the many online personas you have in your social circles.

Followers + Circles + Fans start the Process

The majority of your social connections will come from;

♦ Facebook
♦Twitter
♦ Google+
♦ YouTube 
♦ LinkedIn
♦ Pinterest (maybe)
♦ Quora (likely)

There are ½ dozen more tier 1 socials you should be using in addition to what's in this DiY CM System workflow diagram.

I use http://bit.ly/JNFvCita to schedule phone consultations 

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You would think Google would have their act together so as to prevent their algo from posting up a nothing found result on such a common search term?

#googleplusgeosearch #seo #nothingfound

PUT SIMPLY:

IF YOUR CONTENT ISN’T GOOD ENOUGH TO ATTRACT GOOD, NATURAL LINKS, IT DOESN’T MATTER HOW “OPTIMIZED” THAT CONTENT IS.

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Wealth Inequality in America

#viralvideo  

Webmaster Tools
• Labs
• Author Stats

Author information in search results
Google is piloting the display of author information in search results to help users discover great content

https://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1408986

I can see when the spike in impressions and clicks occurred but not why?

AR + Authorship + Author Rank is not an Exact Science • Not Yet Anyway

A few weeks ago I was doing some recon for a client to ID his top socials. I did an "exact match" for both his full name and business name to see what Google results would come back in the SERP's and all was as it should be.

Out of curiosity I did the same search on my full name and business name and discovered that Google had replaced the http://bit.ly/RichSnippet on my Vimeo profile with that of Joost from Yoast (see image 1)

I asked the master of AR (aka) +Mark Traphagen how this molestation could occur and I'm not sure the reply was 100% on the mark (no pun intended)

A couple minutes ago (2-10-13) I ran the same search (see image 2) my point is as good as Google is • they're not 100% accurate every time when it comes to connecting ones rel=author to ones content one creates

This Poll seems a bit skewed since the 1st submission is obviously the best one and the others are pretty weak ♦ If this were buried down the page ♦ I wonder if it would be the most popular "slogan"?

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It's cool to be social but not too cool unless your SMM plan delivers the goods

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A great analysis by +Andrew Jenkins 

Google Authorship expertise • It doesn't really matter where you search for those in the know about Google Authorship +Mark Traphagen is always listed in the pole position • in this case • LinkedIn 471 in the search results

How to Track your Engaging Posts in Google Analytics

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Social Shares SEO

under normal circumstances you wouldn't think a legal site would rank on page 1 of Google (above the fold) for the search term social shares seo unless the guy at the helm who directs the content that finds it way to the site had a firm grip on how and why social shares is becoming the new seo and will eclipse links as the key ranking factor for Google

#cmtip   #socialmedia  

Creating a Social Media Marketing Plan

There are two ways to do social media marketing: 

1) do it yourself
2) let the experts do for you

As you guessed, I suggest letting the experts handle it.  Experts, as we all know, by etymological definition, have the experience and know-how necessary to produce the best results. 

In any case, you or they will need to do the following:

The 4 Steps to Effective Social Media Marketing

1) Set goals.  Define the purpose of your company’s social media presence.

2) Set up the accounts.  Which social networks should we start with?  Each one has a different audience, character, and medium.  Find your niches and create the accounts.

3) Posting and interaction.  Create a plan on what you will post and when.  Post once or twice a day.  Hint: pictures are the most viral content, but change it up (link, picture, video, text, etc.).  Emotive posts get more responses than indicatives.  And don’t forget to engage fans: think of yourself as a celebrity shaking hands, kissing babies, and signing autographs.  Note: be careful what you post: 52% of consumers have stopped following a company after becoming annoyed with excessive posts.

4) Track your results.  Measure your progress by keeping track of website traffic via Google Analytics, SEO rankings, and – to the best of your ability – where your inbound leads are coming from.  You’ll get a real thrill when your first social media lead walks through the door.

Content Idea Generator

Portent is billing this page as a content idea generator whereas I would position this as an H1 maker upper and having run a couple of tests thru its engine • it might fit the bill for helping trigger those elements in an H1 that gets noticed

Give it a shot fellas;

+Matthew Dolman +Jonathan Rosenfeld +Steven Sweat 
+Jonathan Ginsberg +Jim Intihar 

Google Ranking Factors ♦ Bing Search Results

http://www.bing.com/search?q=how+to+get+ranked+on+page+1+of+google

a seo nerdery on author rank + google plus and seo

This is good news and I suspect my Web Dev Wizard +Andre van Wyk will find this code EZ PZ to add to my new site that's coming down pike!

Another awesome article on Author Rank by +Al Remetch 

Link Density + Link Diversity

Best Time to Post to Plus

http://timing.minimali.se/

just found this so not sure as to its accuracy • will test it 100x times to see if the number of comments +1's + reshares are more Tues + Thurs + Sat

#bestimetopost2plus  

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There was a flurry of posts in the stream after the G+ header specs propagated and i took a screen cap of +Stephane Rossard handy Google header cheat sheet Ripple to visualize this Authorship question?

Fast forward 6-10 months from now • will Google use the Bubbles metrics in the left panel or the right column metrics feed to assign an AR value to each vetted profile in this social sharing Ripple or is it too soon to tell?

If you guys aren't slammed with speaking and travel engagements • it would be great to get your $.02 from +Mark Traphagen and +AJ Kohn on this one?

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Thanks to +Stephan Hovnanian post on Google Header Cheat Sheet I can see a little more clearly now how and why Google Ripples can be used to ID other Plussers who could and should be added to a Circle on G+

Thought Leaders are easy to ID + engage using conventional social tactics

Those who have a less popular status are not so easy to ID and engage unless you can find a common thread and this is one of them

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The Real Angry Birds!

Content is King is an overly used cliche and still the rule of the day if your goal is to get your message found + seen + read + shared on the Net

https://www.google.com/search?q=DiY+Content+Marketing

Content Marketing with Authorship in place and Rich Snippets showing up in the SERP's when and where they need to along with a DIY Content Marketing system in place is the Perfect Storm

#cmtip   #jnferree  

Webstats

Your Top 12 pages in < 12 seconds

Enter your domain keyword then run the scan

http://www.webstatsdomain.com/keywords/social+shares/

Notice how social rich this site is too! 

the more times you're on page 1 like this for your contextual the better

#cmtip  

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Add this video http://youtu.be/NAeha727ZWI to this edition for an ideal combo

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