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Re: Google Tests AI Overviews In Incognito Mode (Not Signed In)

Mark Traphagen — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 10:55:43 -0000

Yes, I am now seeing AIOs in incognito, and at seoClarity we are now able to show many thousands more AIO results for our clients than we were a few days ago.

Re: Jumping to a Specific Slide in a Course via the URL

Mark Traphagen — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 11:46:42 -0000

Hey, Matthew, hoping you're still monitoring this. I tried it in Storyline 360 but it's not picking up the query value from the URL. I'm jumping to a scene so I call the query string scene instead of slide, but should work as it's the same number of characters. So the URL in my link to my Story ends with ?scene=3. But if I include a text box on my first slide to show the JumpToScene variable it shows as "NaN". Any idea of how I need to adjust?

Re: Google: Making Quality Links Is Against Google's Webmaster Guidelines

Mark Traphagen — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 11:46:37 -0000

SO important, especially with Mueller. He very often is answering the precise question asked, not making a general pronouncement.

Re: Google Does Not Use rel=me Microformats

Mark Traphagen — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 09:18:22 -0000

Interesting that Facebook has picked up on a form of Authorship. I have been prompted by Facebook several times that a publication has named me as an author of an article, asking me to verify my authorship so they can show more of what I write to people who show an interest.

Re: Voice Search Optimization in 2018 – SEO Way to Google`s Heart

Mark Traphagen — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 13:20:52 -0000

Hi, thanks for citing our Stone Temple Consulting study (with two of our images) on how people use voice on mobile. but your readers might appreciate having a link to see our results for themselves. Seeing as you linked to other outside resources you used, I'm a bit perplexed why you didn't link to ours. The study link so you can add it is https://www.stonetemple.com... Thanks!

Re: Google: Featured Snippets Are Not Losing Their Appeal

Mark Traphagen — Fri, 01 Dec 2017 17:25:01 -0000

He's definitely responding to the joke question of whether he's responsible. No question. Danny probably doesn't even know the answer to the first question, and as someone pointed out, his answer is singular. Danny's good enough at English not to respond with a singular pronoun to refer to a plural subject.

Re: How to Engineer B2B Content for Bots & AI

Mark Traphagen — Wed, 29 Nov 2017 07:15:00 -0000

Thanks for citing our older study on rich snippets in search (showing they show in 19% of queries), but we've done a more recent sampling that shows over 30% of queries with the feature. See it at https://www.stonetemple.com...

Re: Google Date Bylines In Search Results Snippets Penalty

Mark Traphagen — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 08:27:05 -0000

What? This post has been up for three minutes and no one has commented yet, "I've known this for years, and it's not news"? ;-)

Re: Google Suggests They Use Off-Site Sentiment Analysis For Ranking

Mark Traphagen — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 14:25:56 -0000

I was in the same conversation as Kenichi, and also talked with Gary on my own, and I think Kenichi oversimplified Gary's qualification. Gary said was reluctant to call it "sentiment analysis, but confirmed that if there are a lot of mentions of a brand, positive or negative, they COULD (not necessarily will, but could) affect how much Google trusts that brand for SERP ranking. I think part of the problem might be that Gary didn't fully understand what we meant by "sentiment," because when I put it more simply and said, "so a brand getting a lot of negative mentions could be less trusted for ranking, and one getting a lot of positive mentions could be more trusted," he said yes, that was correct.

Re: Google Suggests They Use Off-Site Sentiment Analysis For Ranking

Mark Traphagen — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 10:06:40 -0000

I’m somewhat amused by all the commenters here claiming to “know” something that clearly they could not know. What they meant to say is they strongly believed the thing (which is fine and more honest). There, I fixed it ;-)

Re: Post Less, Boost Top Posts, and More: 14 Ways to Increase Your Facebook Page Engagement

Mark Traphagen — Fri, 22 Sep 2017 10:07:31 -0000

Great post, Alfred! One point though on which I would differ is about worrying about time of posting on Facebook. That's more relevant to a network like Twitter where most posts are only seen in real time, so it matters a great deal who is on at the time you post. But Facebook's timeline is more algorithmically driven, and actually most people in your target audience will not see your post right away when you post it. Facebook will typically show it first to people whom it thinks would be most likely to be interested in it. If they seem to like it, then it will grow its reach over the next day or two, which means FB will wait to show it to others in the audience as they come online.

Probably the best posting strategy for Facebook is to post your important posts early in the morning just before your main audience starts to come online so it can build some early momentum and the be shown more throughout the day as others come online.

Re: Google’s Featured Snippets Algorithm Is Smart Enough To Detect Third Party Image Manipulation and Act Quickly [Case Study]

Mark Traphagen — Thu, 15 Jun 2017 16:37:43 -0000

Of course this has happened in Google News for years (image from source other than the linked article). I wonder if they do this to give the user more choices.

Re: Mobile Milestones 2016

Mark Traphagen — Thu, 25 May 2017 09:58:00 -0000

MarketingCharts, you might be interested in our study asking these smart speaker devices 5000 questions each to see which answered the most and which was the "smartest" https://www.stonetemple.com...

Re: Google Publicly Calls Out Company For Selling Links

Mark Traphagen — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 08:19:54 -0000

I doubt they are actually "active" on Twitter. All those "thanks for following" tweets are almost certainly automated.

Re: Introducing The Trello Add-In For Outlook

Mark Traphagen — Thu, 09 Feb 2017 16:07:20 -0000

Actually, I discovered after posting here that your instructions are NOT for Trello but for Outlook. In other words, you do all this in the Outlook settings, not Trello's settings. You should make that clear in the post. Thanks for the response, Leah.

Re: Introducing The Trello Add-In For Outlook

Mark Traphagen — Thu, 09 Feb 2017 13:04:15 -0000

Not expecting much as it appears Trello doesn't answer comments here. I'm on Mac OSX using Trello in Chrome browser. I don't see any gear icon at upper right, nor can I find "Manage Integrations" anywhere in settings.

Re: What Counts As a Video View on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Snapchat? The Buffer Guide to Video Metrics

Mark Traphagen — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 10:57:12 -0000

Upon further investigation, it appears you are correct, and Facebook still counts 3 seconds as a view. I was confused because in Insights they also report the number of viewers who watched for at least 10 seconds, and I also remember a lot of chatter about controversy over how Facebook calculated views for charging for video paid ads. But yes, 3 seconds continues to be their "view" baseline.

Re: What Counts As a Video View on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Snapchat? The Buffer Guide to Video Metrics

Mark Traphagen — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 10:45:46 -0000

Didn't Facebook shift from a 3-second to a 10-second view minimum after criticism about its metric last year?

Re: Facebook Slideshow – Create Quick Videos from Images

Mark Traphagen — Sat, 14 Jan 2017 21:05:08 -0000

Thanks! That's what I thought, but was hoping I'd missed something.

Re: Facebook Slideshow – Create Quick Videos from Images

Mark Traphagen — Sat, 14 Jan 2017 17:14:56 -0000

When talking about captions, you said, "If you are taking in your video..." can you add a narration? I didn't see that in your instructions. Thanks!

Re: downdetector.com/status/linkedin

Mark Traphagen — Thu, 29 Dec 2016 13:26:59 -0000

When I hit publish in LinkedIn Publisher on Chrome on a Macboook, it freezes until it times out and has the tab has to be killed.

Re: Why Just Building Links Doesn’t Work Anymore, & 8 Types of Content to Create that Will Grow Your Online Presence

Mark Traphagen — Mon, 28 Nov 2016 20:53:46 -0000

Does buying links, creating micro-sites that only exist for linking, etc. still work in some cases. Sure. But it's something my agency, Stone Temple (mentioned very kindly by the author in her reply here) would ever do. Not for ourselves; not for our clients. But then, we're trusted by many of the largest brands and sites on the web. They know we're with them for their long term benefit, and we would never risk that for a short term gain.

Re: How to Write a Robots.txt File…It’s an Art

Mark Traphagen — Fri, 04 Nov 2016 10:57:30 -0000

Yeah, I just found it (the one word "test). I couldn't see it until I hovered my mouse over that word. I'm more likely to click on the "footnote" which is more obviously a link (and leads to a third party mention of our study that does not link to us).

But I much appreciate that you took the time to hunt down our original study and link to it. Especially when it comes to data studies, it's important for readers to be able to see the actual data and methodology so they can judge the validity for themselves. Thanks for caring about that!

Re: How to Write a Robots.txt File…It’s an Art

Mark Traphagen — Fri, 04 Nov 2016 10:29:51 -0000

Thanks, Dan, for mentioning our Stone Temple Consulting study about whether Google pays attention to robots.txt. Your readers might benefit from being able to see our actual study, if you care to add a link: https://www.stonetemple.com... Thanks!

Re: Dwell Time: Is it really a ranking factor? (And if so, should you care?)

Mark Traphagen — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 16:55:40 -0000

Actually, we DO know some things about RankBrain: what Google has told us, which is what I listed in my previous comments. There is NOTHING in RankBrain that is about "understanding previous user behavior in interactions with a page." Nothing. Never even brought up as anything RankBrain does. People are crediting all sorts of things to RankBrain which no one at Google has ever said it does, and many that Googlers have outright said have nothing to do with it.

Disqus - Latest Comments for trappermark

Re: Google Tests AI Overviews In Incognito Mode (Not Signed In)

Re: Jumping to a Specific Slide in a Course via the URL

Re: Google: Making Quality Links Is Against Google's Webmaster Guidelines

Re: Google Does Not Use rel=me Microformats

Re: Voice Search Optimization in 2018 – SEO Way to Google`s Heart

Re: Google: Featured Snippets Are Not Losing Their Appeal

Re: How to Engineer B2B Content for Bots & AI

Re: Google Date Bylines In Search Results Snippets Penalty

Re: Google Suggests They Use Off-Site Sentiment Analysis For Ranking

Re: Google Suggests They Use Off-Site Sentiment Analysis For Ranking

Re: Post Less, Boost Top Posts, and More: 14 Ways to Increase Your Facebook Page Engagement

Re: Google’s Featured Snippets Algorithm Is Smart Enough To Detect Third Party Image Manipulation and Act Quickly [Case Study]

Re: Mobile Milestones 2016

Re: Google Publicly Calls Out Company For Selling Links

Re: Introducing The Trello Add-In For Outlook

Re: Introducing The Trello Add-In For Outlook

Re: What Counts As a Video View on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Snapchat? The Buffer Guide to Video Metrics

Re: What Counts As a Video View on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Snapchat? The Buffer Guide to Video Metrics

Re: Facebook Slideshow – Create Quick Videos from Images

Re: Facebook Slideshow – Create Quick Videos from Images

Re: downdetector.com/status/linkedin

Re: Why Just Building Links Doesn’t Work Anymore, & 8 Types of Content to Create that Will Grow Your Online Presence ​

Re: How to Write a Robots.txt File…It’s an Art

Re: How to Write a Robots.txt File…It’s an Art

Re: Dwell Time: Is it really a ranking factor? (And if so, should you care?)

Re: Why Just Building Links Doesn’t Work Anymore, & 8 Types of Content to Create that Will Grow Your Online Presence