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Category: General

How Can I Get Examples Of Bad Links To My Site?

Matt Cutts answers this question: “Client got unnatural links warning in Sept’12 without any example links, 90% links removed, asked for examples in every RR but no reply, shouldnt it be better to have live/cached “list” of bad links or penalties in GWT? Think about genuine businesses.”

Should I Use ccTLDs For Sites Not Targeted To Those Countries?

In this Matt Cutts video, he answers the question, “As memorable .COM domains become more expensive, more developers are choosing alternate new domains like .IO and .IM – which Google geotargets to small areas. Do you discourage this activity?”

If I Have 20 Domains, Should I Link Them All Together?

In this video hosted by Matt Cutts, he answers the question, “Should a customer with 20 domain names link it all together or not, and if he links it should he add nofollow to the links not to pass PageRank?”

Why Are Some Google Services Not Yet Available In Albania?

In this video by Matt Cutts, a user asks the following question: “Why does Google not support Albania at all? No Places, google.al not advanced, Albanian – is not a supported language in AdSense, not a single Albanian website is on Google News, etc. Does Google hate Albania? 🙂” Dardan Hasku, Kosovo

Matt Cutts and Danny Sullivan Talk At SMX Advanced

The other night at SMX Advanced, Matt Cutts, the head of search spam at Google, went to the stage and answered question about Google search, as well as webmaster topics with Danny Sullivan.  The session was covered in a live blog format.  Several key points of the session were pulled out and put on the live blog. For […]

Followerwonk And Buffer Partner Up To Optimize Tweet Scheduling

About a week ago, news came to us from Moz.com about the partnership between Followerwonk and Buffer to help optimize your tweeting. The question behind this coupling is, why partner up to begin with? Here is the answer. Tweets have a half-life of only 18 minutes. Once this time has lapsed, the tweets ability to […]

How To Use Google Analytics To Prioritize 404 Fixes

Let’s say you’re working on optimizing a client’s website, and during the process, you decide to run Xenu or Screaming Frog on the site, only to discover hundreds upon hundreds of broken internal links.  This means that each of these broken links are giving a visitor a “404 – Page Not Found” message instead of […]

How To Build An Email List To Market Your Business

In this video, Friday 15, Google’s series of tips for small businesses, they help you get your small business better marketing with email. How to build an email list *Start with the email addresses you have, even if it’s a small list *Allow people to sign up for your email list when they interact with […]

Instagram: A New Way For Brands To Market

What is Instagram?  Similar to Foursquare, it is an app that gives users a place to share, like, and comment on photos.  The app’s community grew to over a million users just within the first three months of being released.  Now, Instagram boasts 100 million monthly active users.  Because of this, brands have begun to […]

Linking My Two Sites Together: Does It Violate Quality Guidelines?

In this video, Matt Cutts responds to a question that asks if you have two sites that are similar to each other, can you link from one site to another without violating Google’s guidelines?