Google Says that URL Shorteners Don’t Hurt SEO

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Google Says that URL Shorteners Don’t Hurt SEO

By Pat Marcello on Monday, April 18th, 2011 | No Comments

Everyone wonders about those nifty URL shorteners like Bit.ly, BudURL and TinyURL to name just a few. I know that they might stop your email from getting through because some mail carriers see them as “spammy,” but when it comes to using a short URL on a web page, you’re probably OK. Here’s Matt Cutts [...]

Google Weighs Links

By Pat Marcello on Thursday, February 3rd, 2011 | 5 Comments

For a very long time, page rank had a hallowed place in the Google algorithm. That meant webmasters obsessed over it. And guess what? Even though the algo now has 200 different aspects of a web page that it reviews, we’re still going around worrying about page rank. So, yeah… I’d love to have a [...]

Google Rumor Could Make Your Title Tag Even More Important

By Pat Marcello on Friday, January 7th, 2011 | 2 Comments

Image via Wikipedia I was over at ZDNet today, reading an article by Stephen Chapman, where he said, “…Google is rumored to be considering placing more emphasis on the title tag of a page containing outbound links than on the anchor text used for those links.” (“My Favorite Rumored SEO Prospect of 2010,” January 7, [...]

Common SEO Mistakes

By Pat Marcello on Wednesday, December 15th, 2010 | 4 Comments

I found a really great post over at Search Engine Land, called “25 Super Common Mistakes .” It’s from back in October, and I’m not sure how I missed it. There are some issues that you may not be thinking about when it comes to SEO. For example: Image via CrunchBase Using broad match when [...]

SEO Link Vine Works Like Magic

By Pat Marcello on Wednesday, August 18th, 2010 | 8 Comments

Remember back in April when I reviewed Brad Callen's SEO Link Vine? The title was "SEO Link Vine Looks Good!" and in the post, I explained how it worked and why I thought it would be an amazing way to get first page rankings with Google. I was right. Over the past month, I have [...]

Twitter and Google: How Does Google Rank Your Tweets?

By Pat Marcello on Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 | No Comments

Knowing what Google thinks is what SEOs spend most of their time trying to figure out. And it’s an inexact science at best. But sometimes… just sometimes, Google TELLS us what it’s thinking, which is good. Knowing what to expect always makes things better, eh? So, a little while back, Google started adding Twitter Tweets [...]

SEO: Some Neato Keyword Tools

By Pat Marcello on Thursday, October 1st, 2009 | No Comments

Keyword discovery is the most important activity you can do for your business, and you really should start before you set up your site. A lot of new business owners overlook this, but it’s vital! I mean, you can go back and change things later on, but why not start right? You really only need [...]

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