Some tools may also mark links as possibly unnatural if they contain a keyword as anchor text. There is a common misconception that unnatural links only exist on low-quality, spammy sites. Some sites have tens of thousands of unnatural links that...
You might lose the value for all of them when only a couple are tagged as obviously unnatural. All changes to link specifics including anchor text and landing page should be monitored. When you've put a lot of effort in acquiring links to your...
Gabe advises working to remove as many unnatural links as you can manually before disavowing the rest. Just as Google Penguin targeted unnatural link profiles, so too does Google Penguin 2.0. All 13 of the websites Gabe looked at all had heavy use...
Over-optimization is the practice of trying to make your content and sites relevant to the point of being unnatural. Link buying is a practice that unless someone is very, very good is likely to get you a Penguin or manual unnatural link pattern...
Press release marketing has come under a lot more scrutiny for the kind of links that can look "unnatural" in a link profile. The issues that can arise from some press release networks are the mass-scale duplicate content and redundant anchor text...
If it is a penalty about unnatural links, then you will need to identify the unnatural links, take steps to remove them, and then disavow the ones you can’t remove. Our site was recently given a penalty for unnatural links.
As soon as I saw that, my first thought jumped to comment spam, unnatural links, and Penguin. Examples of unnatural links uncovered: Hunting Down the Root Cause of Unnatural Links My client (the small business owner) explained the situation to the...
Penguin and their various attacks on unnatural links have dramatically reshaped their ability to detect and act on link building practices they consider detrimental to their algorithms. If the New York Times accepted a guest post from you, what are...
Don’t wait for a Penguin update to wipe out your rankings in the SERPs or an “unnatural links” warning to hit your inbox. How do you know which links to remove when you get an "unnatural links" message?
Google has released two new videos in its popular Webmaster Help series that shed new light on a couple of hot topics in the SEO industry: how to you identify unnatural links and why Google wont switch off the PageRank Toolbar feature.
OK, you can substitute “spammy”, “risky”, or “unnatural” for “wrong” in the subheading above. Had the companies struck by Penguin analyzed all of the links being built, and the heavy use of exact match anchor text, they possibly could have...
There are numerous metrics to account for when researching the reason for declining traffic and unnatural link warnings. Anchor text (matching this metric to keywords you are probably losing traffic is always useful)
This appears unnatural to Google and other search engines. Too many links with the same anchor text. Fix: Too Many Links With the Same Anchor Text By now we know that an excessive amount of backlinks with the same anchor text can tank your rankings.
Your first priority is to identify those links which are suspicious or potentially toxic (unnatural). If you’ve built thousands of unnatural links, then you’ve got a lot of work to do before you even think about filing a reconsideration request.
Warnings from the engines themselves about "unnatural" links. Anchor text, I'm looking at you. How many people incorrectly pursued anchor text strategies based on competitive linking analysis and then saw their rankings implode in 2012.
Every client that has come to us, after receiving an unnatural link warning, was engaged in one or both of these practices. Exact-match anchor text keyword links: These anchor text links should point to the most appropriate page on the website (the...
If a directory makes sense and isn't one that exists only for the purpose of hosting links, try it and see if it brings you any traffic, but considering many of the penalized sites that I've looked at (who have cleaned up their links) are still...
Freaked out by Penguins and unnatural linking messages? It seems bloggers being what they are, educated, by and large did link and used the same or related anchor texts. A few dozen links and they actually tanked for the term in question.
Others were hit by unnatural links messages, and some of these were followed by penalties as well. For those who received an unnatural link message, or a non-Penguin based penalty, once your work is done, you will need to file a reconsideration...
The impacted sites I am helping recover all had one thing in common: an unnatural link profile with a majority of their links coming from low quality sites along with overly optimized anchor text. This is a perfect example of unnatural anchor text...
