Mark Traphagen

Ello is an “ad free and always will be” social network. Although it’s been around for a few months, its existence went viral during the final weeks of September 2014. This post will serve as a frequently-updated guide to the features of Ello and how to use them. You can download the latest version in PDF […]

What if you could almost guarantee a first-page search results to a highly targeted audience? With Google+, you can! I’ve collected hundreds of examples over the past two years of how Google+ content can show up in search, but the most powerful examples are always in personalized search. Since early 2012 Google has had as […]

Few things human are more fascinating than identical twins. Think about how many creative works, from classical literature to pop culture, are about twins: The Prince & the Pauper, the myth of Castor & Pollux, the 1960s Patty Duke TV Show, The Parent Trap–the list goes on and on. When it comes to content on […]

Introducing Episode 1 of our new video series: Hardcore SEO! In this episode Perficient Digital Senior Marketing Consultant Brian Weiss shares how to evaluate a sudden traffic loss on your website. The Hardcore SEO series will bring you insights like this from Perficient Digital’s team of seasoned SEO veterans. To make sure you never miss […]

Carter Elkin-Paris, our Content Marketing Manager, got to pondering one night recently. He wondered if it was typical for social media network users to follow the official account of the network they had joined. It certainly seemed like it might be a common behavior. If you had enough interest to join a network, wouldn’t it follow […]

How do you build a winning social media strategy? Eric Enge interviewed Carrie Kerpen, CEO of Likeable Media, for the Digital Marketing Excellence Show on that topic. Watch the complete video of the interview at the bottom of this post, or watch it on YouTube. The following is our summary of that interview. A Perfect […]

Testing Google+ +Post ads in the Wild Two weeks ago Google+ finally moved its +Post ads product out of beta and made it available to any Google+ brand page with at least 1000 followers. Perficient Digital immediately launched a series of test ads to see how +Post ads would perform for us. This article will […]

Local Search: What used to be fairly simple has become complicated. On a recent Digital Marketing Excellence Show, Eric Enge interviewed Dave Rodecker, owner of Local Splash. Local Splash is “a business information management and publishing service that provides PR like technology in syndicating rich, structured content to social networks, online local destinations and powering the […]

Google+ Hangouts is a disruptive technology. As David Amerland says in his new book, Google+ Hangouts for Business: How to use Google+ Hangouts to Improve Brand Impact, Build Business and Communicate in Real-Time, only Google could have done it. We are hardwired to connect with those we trust, and and this hardwiring has led to a […]

UPDATE November 25, 2015: In mid November 2015 Google+ started rolling out a beta of a completely revamped Google+ interface. There are many changes. Among them is the disappearance of view counts from profiles and pages. (View counts still show in the “classic” desktop interface.) Google has told us that some things that dropped out in […]

Recently Neal Schaffer was our guest on our Digital Marketing Excellence Show. Neal has been a Forbes Magazine Top 50 Social Media Influencer for two years running, is an internationally-known keynote speaker on social media strategies, and is the author of several popular social media marketing books, including his most recent Maximize Your Social: A One-Stop […]

UPDATED 20 May 2014: See the “Matt Cutts: Author Rank Comes Into Play” section below for a new statement from a Google representative. *   *   *   *   * Danny Sullivan: You say you are not using anything like an AuthorRank now. Why not use “AuthorRank” in the future? Would it not […]