Avoiding Penalties From Google’s Penguin Update: Interview With Russ Jones by...
As part of our SEJ interview series, Russ Jones of Virante discusses how to avoid penalties from Google’s Penguin algorithm update. After Penguin 2.1 came out, Russ’s company Virante came out with...
View ArticleGoogle Tells Webmaster: You’ll Have To Earn Our Trust Again
A Google Webmaster Help thread has a story of a site that is trying to disavow and remove all the bad links pointing to his site. The interesting part is that even when he does, will it help with his...
View ArticleDaily Search Forum Recap: November 29, 2013
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Search Engine Roundtable Stories: Video Recap of Weekly...
View ArticleRemoving Backlinks That Lead To Negative SEO: Interview With Jacob Bohall by...
As part of our SEJ interview series, Jacob Bohall of Virante discusses removing harmful backlinks that can lead to negative SEO. Jacob starts with an observation that the SEO industry is currently...
View ArticleGoogle’s Matt Cutts: Link Spamming Google For A Specific Time Period? Then...
In a recent video released by Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, Matt answered the question, “How can a site recover from a period of spamming links?” The example given was when Interflora was...
View ArticleSearchCap: The Day In Search, December 9, 2013
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google’s Matt Cutts: Link Spamming Google For A Specific Time...
View ArticleGoogle’s Matt Cutts: Disavow Links Aggressively
Google’s Matt Cutts released another video this one tries to answer how to remove a penalty for bad link building over a period of time. Specifically, if you know you hired a bad SEO who built bad...
View ArticleDaily Search Forum Recap: December 10, 2013
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Search Engine Roundtable Stories: Google’s Matt Cutts:...
View ArticleVideo Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: December 13, 2013
This week in search, we had Google go after yet another link network, this one named Anglo Rank. Yandex announced they are not going to use link data in their algorithm for commercial queries in...
View ArticleWhen You Have Bad Links Impacting Your Google Rankings, Which Do You Remove?
I see this all the time, a forum thread, where a webmaster knows his rankings are suffering in Google because he was hit by Penguin because he has a lot of really bad, manipulative links. A...
View ArticleShould Venture Backed Startups Engage in Spammy SEO?
Here’s a recent video of the founders of RapGenius talking at TechCrunch disrupt. embedded content Oops, wrong video. Here’s the right one. Same difference. embedded content Recently a thread on Hacker...
View Article3 Steps to Take When You Suspect an Algorithmic Penalty From Google by...
The dreaded Google penalty. It can strike you out of the blue quickly, and is very unpleasant to deal with. In the face of plummeting web traffic, you have to pinpoint the cause and then take steps to...
View ArticleGoogle Crushes Yet Another Link Network For Violating Quality Guidelines by...
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, made an announcement on Twitter early this morning that action has been taken on another link network: Today we’re taking action on a French link network that...
View ArticleThe Definitive Guide to Recovering From a Manual Search Penalty by...
A search penalty is a fearsome thing. It’s the grown-up equivalent of “come to the principal’s office,” but the consequences are far worse. Once you’ve been hit with a manual penalty from Google, what...
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