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Re: Is Your Exact Match Domain Going Down?

PatMarcello — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 09:36:02 -0000

It depends, Ashish. If you're just promoting affiliate pages, nowhere. But if you write a blog about your affiliate niche with good content and offers, you might do well. It's all about good quality content these days. But even placing that around the Web and sending people to an affiliate, squeeze or sales page won't fare very well, I don't think.

Pat

Re: Is Your Exact Match Domain Going Down?

Ashish Pratap Singh — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 00:15:46 -0000

So now where's the space for small players, affiliates

Re: Is Your Exact Match Domain Going Down?

PatMarcello — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 10:58:40 -0000

Yeah... I'm thinking it will affect one-page sites, squeeze pages, sales letters, and such. If you have a site with tons of content, I don't think it will hurt much.

Thanks for your comment!

Pat

Re: Is Your Exact Match Domain Going Down?

Ashish Pratap Singh — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 02:37:52 -0000

Most of the webmasters was not able to see it's impact as they may relate it to week end drop. But it will affect lot's of niches. It will be a killer for affiliate sites minor sites.

Re: SEO Quake: What You Should Know

PatMarcello — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 16:09:32 -0000

huh... I have. Not banned from search, but shut down for a short period. "Too many requests" was the error. So, I'd just wait awhile and it was good. But if you have SEO Quake turned on all the time and search a ton of pages and let it grab all the PR, backlinks, and indexed pages for every site on the search page... I think you'll get at least the captcha. (Which may be new because that never happened to me.)

Thanks for your input, Fabio!

Pat

Re: SEO Quake: What You Should Know

Fabio Basile — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 14:21:59 -0000

Hi, in a recent experience i have compiled a list of about a thousand local businesses from a government database.

For about a week i have Google'd relentlessly every single business to find out their websiite and contact email address so that i could pin-point with a certain accuracy which business to contact that might have a reasonable need for a web designer.I would say in a day i'd Google about 100+ businesses and on average i would start having to type a captcha every 10-15 searches, but i have never been banned, even while having SEOquake on at all times on Chrome OS.I don't think you can be "banned" from searching, however you can be locked out by a number of services due to potentially being suspected of being a robot. Google is the most lenient, only requiring to type in a captcha, however the Whois database is the real tough guy. There is a limit of a certain number of Whois look-ups (no matter what service you use, the database is the same), and once you are over that limit you will be locked out until the next day.The Pagerank service is another one that might occasionally lock you out from checking too many page ranks, but usually it's not that bad as long as you don't use the same IP. I'm on a dynamic IP at my office so i don't worry about it, but i have Comcast at home so i'd have to switch my box off and on every now and then, thou it never came to that.

Re: MozCast Reports on the Google “Weather”

PatMarcello — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 14:52:46 -0000

Thanks, Dr. Peter! I'll be watching how things go, as the concept is quite interesting. Appreciate your input.

Pat

Re: MozCast Reports on the Google “Weather”

Dr. Pete — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 13:24:07 -0000

Unfortunately, prediction may be a long way off, if it's even possible. One of our first major tracked events on MozCast was Penguin (1.0), and it came and went in a day. It hit hard and fast, without warning. A Google update isn't preceded by a low pressure area or winds from the east, unfortunately. In other cases (like Panda 3.7) there are multi-day patterns, which may lend to some predictability. For now, though, our goal is to learn what we can, even if it's after the fact.

Re: Why I Love Raven Internet Marketing Tools

PatMarcello — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 12:21:38 -0000

Thanks for your message, Courtney. Just callin' it like I sees it. :) You guys do a great job.

Pat

Re: Why I Love Raven Internet Marketing Tools

Courtney Seiter — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 11:50:08 -0000

Pat, thanks so much for this great review and testimonial! I'm so glad Raven is making your life easier and hope we continue to do so--we have some new stuff on the horizon I think you'll like. :) Please let me know if there's ever anything I can do to help make your Raven experience even better!

Re: Life After AdWords – How to Get Traffic Without PPC

PatMarcello — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 18:50:26 -0000

You got it! And for now, yes. Google will still list you on page one, if you don't buy AdWords, but who knows? That could change.

They won't give you all of your keyword data now, if you don't buy AdWords. Lucky for us, we can at least show where the folks we're not getting keywords for landed with a special hack filter, but the actual keywords that searchers, who aren't logged into Google, typed in? Nope. They're "not provided."

Plus, Google expects us to use Google+, and if we don't participate, that's going to affect our search ranking, so that's why I say "for now."

Tomorrow, Google could turn around and hint that if you aren't advertising, you can't rank. Could happen. I wouldn't be surprised, either.

But for now, we're still good to go. I just find that I'm not going to concentrate or depend on traffic from Google ever. Traffic comes in many ways, and from other search engines, too.

Thanks for asking!

Pat

Re: Life After AdWords – How to Get Traffic Without PPC

Vvego — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 18:16:35 -0000

Hey Pat,

Thanks for taking the time to give me some custom "schooling" It's not often a writer gives someone (me) such personal attention to a question.

I'm grateful.

Is there any chance that Google would penalize someone for not using Adwords even though the rest of their site was very well constructed and optimized? Can a site be on page 1 for search without paying Google in some form or fashion.

Regards,

Robert
Vvego International

Re: Google Is Squeezing Your Small Business Right O-U-T

PatMarcello — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 19:10:10 -0000

Awesome! Spread the word. :)

Pat

Re: Mind Mapping Serves Many Purposes

PatMarcello — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 19:09:17 -0000

Oh, nice. Thanks for the recommendation, Carl. I'll check that out.

Pat

Re: Mind Mapping Serves Many Purposes

Carl — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 16:28:35 -0000

Hi Pat - I've recently returned to mindmapping as a tool. Just read Tony Buzan's Mindmapping for Business. My favourite mindmapping software is Inspiration (I've got version 8) and I'm about to put quite a few mindmaps on my blog I've created using Inspiration - you can get it on ebay for under £20.

Re: Google Is Squeezing Your Small Business Right O-U-T

Vvego — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 11:59:48 -0000

Pat,

Thanks for the prompt response. Businesses like ours (e- commerce operations) depend on expertise from people like you.

From this side of the aisle, it can be hard to distinguish between SEO "experts"...they seem to be legion.

I'll be back to visit your site.

Robert
Vvego.

Re: Google Is Squeezing Your Small Business Right O-U-T

PatMarcello — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 11:44:08 -0000

Hi Robert,

Just keep doing those "white hat" things you know and love. Like, make sure your pages have meta data, use keywords that apply to your business, and get great backlinks from amazing content and having a social presence on the Web.

The good thing is that those tactics are approved by all the search engines. So, for now, they still work with Google, but Bing and Yahoo pull in traffic, too. Bing is getting better and bigger every day. I've already switched my default search engine to Bing. I encourage people to do the same.

Pat

Re: Google Is Squeezing Your Small Business Right O-U-T

Vvego — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 10:28:13 -0000

Hey Pat,

I'm reading your article while listening to a newscast mentioning Google's solicitation of FB. Supposedly FB favors Bing for search?

As a small business owner who relies on e-commerce as a main source for transactions, what do I do (along with the thousands of others) to combat being pushed out of search?

Your latest follower,

Robert
Vvego International

Re: Google Plus Button Might Bring More Page Views

Deborah — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 17:57:14 -0000

This is great information. Thank you. I am looking for more page views. Very helpful tips here.

Re: Cutts: “NoFollow Links Are a Small Percentage of Links on the Web”

Kuladip Roy — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 08:44:00 -0000

Yes Matt I agree with you, the no follow links are very small percentage of link in the web. Using no follow we tell the spider that don't crawl the web site, it is sometimes treated as spam. Thanks for shearing this topic.

Re: Google Penguin Hits Spam Sites Hard

PatMarcello — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 11:58:58 -0000

Yes! That's what I've been telling folks, too. I'm tired of being worried about what Google does and doesn't want. Bing is coming on strong. Google only wants the big brands in its results How is that "helping" the Internet?

Re: Google Penguin Hits Spam Sites Hard

Seriously Spain — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 05:19:01 -0000

Best way is just to avoid Google completely and concentrate on Bing and Yahoo as, no matter what you do, Google is going to keep hitting the smaller sites. Why? They make hardly any money of us but boatloads from the massive sites - that's why Google search is now useless. It brings up either tons of spam sites that are obviously making millions for Google with AdSense OR huge news sites and little else. I never use it anymore. Bing and Yahoo all the way :)

I'm also ditching Google AdSense from all my sites and going with a different ad network. Google is an EVIL monopoly and the more people that realize it, the better.

Re: SEO for Yandex: Some Things to Know

PatMarcello — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 11:06:52 -0000

It is, and if you use SEOQuake, you can do the same thing with Google. :)

Re: SEO for Yandex: Some Things to Know

web design company russia — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 05:32:26 -0000

Very useful article! Speaking about Yandex's usability you can add that it has numbers on the search results pages! Indeed helpful!

Re: Google Updates for May 2012: Linking, Anchor Text & Freshenss

PatMarcello — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 09:54:31 -0000

How so?