Pat Marcello

If you’re thinking about disavowing links through Webmaster Tools, you may have worse issues. Here’s why you probably don’t want to mess with that: Read the rest here: http://www.semrush.com/blog/publications/linking-to-disavow-or-not-to-disavow-that-is-the-question/ Just because you have a tool doesn’t necessarily mean you need to use it, eh?

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I just submitted a wish to Intuit’s Small Business Growing Strong campaign. Vote for it at bit.ly/ZPX6ON #SupportSmallBiz PLEASE? — Pat Marcello (@PatMarcello) April 28, 2013

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During an SMX  West panel this week, Matt Cutts, head of Google’s web spam team, said that we’re going to have a “large Penguin update” in 2013.  Previously, we had one in May 2012 and one in October, and each targeted different aspects of what Google considers to be Web spam. One of the BIG [...]

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Have you been Google smacked? I’m guessing that lots of folks have, and maybe don’t even know it. Well, if you want to check, just hop on over to Sistrix, where they have all of the Google updates on one page: http://www.sistrix.com/google-updates/ This is a comprehensive list, going back to the very first update in [...]

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Thought this was important. For a while now, some of the well-known SEOs have been saying that when you redirect a page with a 301, or permanent redirect, that the page rank passed to the page at the other end is diluted. Untrue. Here’s Matt Cutts to explain why:   Another SEO myth busted. Redirect [...]

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This guest post is from my friend, Tom Jones of Make-a-Website.com. He’s got some cool insights to share from Larry Page: 4 Business Lessons From Google CEO Larry Page Larry page officially took over the reigns as Google CEO in April 2011 replacing then CEO Eric Schmidt. Most consider Schmidt as the caretaker CEO that [...]

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Those of us who look at metrics, day in – day out, have been complaining for years that Alexa is a so-so tool. It serves a purpose, but the data you get from Alexa is not always useful or relevant by the time you’re seeing it. But a group based in Tel Aviv — Similar [...]

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New Panda data refresh rolling out today: 1.2% of English queries affected. Background: goo.gl/8Zqy1 — A Googler (@google) January 22, 2013 The link leads to Amit Singhal’s “More Guidance on Building Quality Sites” on the Google Webmaster Central blog. If you haven’t read the article, do. It explains exactly what Google is looking for. If [...]

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Enterprise is often an intimidating term. Enterprise is normally assigned to big business, right? I mean, when you think of “Enterprise,” you think of brands that people recognize and large companies that often make it to page one in search. Is that you? Probably not. I know it’s not MagnaSites — yet. But we’re working [...]

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As you probably know, I’m a writer. I’ve been writing and being paid to do it for more than twenty years, and for the Web for about the last nine years. When I started writing for the Web, I was appalled by the way people butchered the English language. The punctuation was horrible, the spelling [...]

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