Google’s MayDay Algorithm Update F*d Up Some Long Tail Optimizers

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Google’s MayDay Algorithm Update F*d Up Some Long Tail Optimizers

Google’s MayDay algorithm change made longtail keyword phrase optimized sites see a decline in traffic. Learn more about it in this video and the accompanying post.

Facebook Changes Set Google Employees to Deactivate Accounts

By Pat Marcello on Monday, April 26th, 2010 | View Comments

Who cares what a bunch of Google people do online? Apparently a lot of folks. The brown stuff is flying all over Tech Crunch and Search Engine Land over the past couple of days. Matt Cutts and a bunch of other Google employees have quite publicly deactivated their Facebook accounts because of the new social [...]

SEO: Do .pdf Files Pass Page Rank?

By Pat Marcello on Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010 | View Comments

I just finished reading an interview with Matt Cutts at Stone Temple Consulting’s RSS feed (You can read the whole thing at: http://feeds.feedburner.com/STC-Articles .) , where he talks about lots of different SEO topics like page rank sculpting (Google doesn’t like it.) to using iframes, javascript, and so on. It’s a good interview, if you [...]

Does the PageRank of Twitter profiles matter?

By Pat Marcello on Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 | View Comments

Here’s what Matt Cutts (the Google Spokesperson) has to say about that: LinkedTube So, does your page rank matter? No, as I mentioned in an earlier post, the links on your page are all “no follow,” so it doesn’t help a hoot to be on someone’s page with a PR10. That’s too bad. Twitter could [...]

Google Search Engine: How are Backlinks Ranked?

By Pat Marcello on Monday, January 18th, 2010 | View Comments

OK, apparently Matt Cutts is making a whole new series of videos for webmasters about SEO. Sweet! In this video he discusses how Google search engine looks at links pointing back to your site from social sites, and here’s what he says are the criteria: #1 How reputable are the links? If they’re from Facebook [...]

Google, Caffeine and What It Means for Webmasters

By Pat Marcello on Monday, November 23rd, 2009 | View Comments

Anyone in search has heard about Google’s new technology that is supposed to put Google’s indexing into hyperdrive. It’s like taking Google to Starbucks for a double espresso, and it will make this very fast search engine even faster. Who wants to complain about that? Well… you might, depending on how quickly your pages load. [...]

Posts Tagged ‘Matt Cutts’