John Mueller from Google has said that you don't need to use third-party (backlink) tools and that Google Webmaster Tools (alone) is fine. It has now been 18 days since Penguin 2.0 rolled out on May 22, 2013.
Well, according to Google's Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts, which was shared by John Mueller, a Webmaster Trends Analyst at Google, webmasters should be tackling URLs for the disavow tool with a machete instead of a scalpel.
In fact, link building is still legal (the referenced post was +1'ed by Google's John Mueller), you just have to go about it the right way. Perhaps you have been doing guest posting for a while. Regardless of what you may have read about the next...
Google: Disavow Links Even If Removed As A Best Practice – Search Engine RoundtableSays Google's John Mueller: "While it's really important for the web-spam team when processing the reconsideration request to see significant effort put into...
SSL Web Sites Don't Get Ranking Boost In Google – Search Engine RoundtableThere are no ranking advantages or disadvantages of having HTTPs websites, says Google's John Mueller. Google's Matt Cutts and former ex-Googlers talk spam, rankings, and SEO...
The potential value of this type of signal was endorsed in June of 2011 by Google's John Mueller. It is well known that Google doesn't use PageRank as a direct determinant of link value, but it remains convenient and available as a metric, so it's...
Googler John Mueller revealed the fun Easter egg on Google+, noting “I remember making a version of this as a kid, trying to find self-sustaining elements, building 'gliders' that soared diagonally across the field, and generally just fascinated...
When John Mueller was asked during a Webmaster Hangout why rounding clicks was necessary, if there could ever be an advanced option showing actual numbers, and how many people would have to sign a petition for them to reconsider, he...
Google's John Mueller also says: Google is altering the appearance of a site's title as it appears in the SERPs. And SEOs are getting frustrated. Complaints about Google ignoring title tags have appeared on websites and in forums in recent days.
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