SEO: Google’s New Linking Patent

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SEO: Google’s New Linking Patent

By Pat Marcello on Wednesday, September 1st, 2010 | 5 Comments

Is Google up to something? A new patent, "Determining Quality of Linked Documents," was granted on August 24, though I'm guessing that Google has been employing this tactic right along. They filed for the patent way back in 2004, and it clearly illustrates that your backlinks are important, but more important is where they're coming [...]

Rel="NoFollow" No Longer Works?

By Pat Marcello on Thursday, June 18th, 2009 | No Comments

I was over at SEO Book, reading Aaron Wall’s post from June 16, entitled “Expert SEO Testing: Usually Worthless,” and was surprised to learn that rel=”nofollow” no longer works. Matt Cutts, Google’s spokesperson, admitted that was true at the recent SMX Conference. So, Wall linked to Danny Sullivan’s post “Google Loses “Backwards Compatibility” On Paid [...]

SEO: PR0 Again!

By Pat Marcello on Tuesday, June 9th, 2009 | 3 Comments

The other day, I was over at SmartPageRank.com checking on this blog because I heard that Google had updated PR rankings again, and was curious. I had recovered from the paid links drop to PR0 back up to PR3 again, and was hoping maybe I could see a PR4 (where the blog was before the [...]

SEO: Search Status for Firefox

By Pat Marcello on Monday, June 8th, 2009 | 3 Comments

I have a few cool plugins for Firefox, but one of my favorites is “Search Status.” Here are some things it does: It provides not just Google Page Rank, like the Google Toolbar does, but Alexa ranking of any page you land on as well. And these ranks sit in your lower toolbar and you [...]

SEO: Site Analysis

By Pat Marcello on Thursday, March 26th, 2009 | 30 Comments

Have you ever sat back and wondered how your site was faring in several of the Google Data Centers? Or what about how many links you have coming back to your site from outside? What about mod rewrites… any good at creating those? META tags? And on and on… There are metrics that we all [...]

Best Linking Practice

By Pat Marcello on Monday, December 29th, 2008 | 9 Comments

I hope everyone is in the midst of a wonderful holiday week. Though today was “back to work” for me, I was actually anxious to get back to it. I can’t take more than 5 days away from the action! So, what did I do? I spent the entire day after Christmas listening to SEO [...]

Web 2.0 Niche Marketing: Come to My Fun Place

By Pat Marcello on Friday, December 12th, 2008 | 6 Comments

No, it’s not in my mind. Really. I have happy places all over cyberspace. So, OK, you already know that I’m into the SEO, blogging, and IM thing, but did you know that I’m a total cat person? Yep. If I could have a kitty ranch and be a kitty wrangler for the rest of [...]

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