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  1. 4 Steps to Take After a Google Manual Penalty is Removed

    Elimination of duplicate content. Competitor backlink profiles are often filled with spam, so it's important to evaluate each link before performing outreach. Build a glossary: The Search Engine Marketing Glossary at SEOBook is packed with useful...

  2. After Panda & Penguin, is Google Living Up to Its Great Expectations?

    Duplicate content matching applies a negative score) If we look at some of the most competitive terms in Google we will see a search engine filled with spam and hacked domains ranking in the top 10. Even weirder is that the techniques used to rank...

  3. 10 Website Quality Indicators That Can Sink Your SEO Battleship

    While most people know about duplicate site content, they often forget that duplicate title tags and meta descriptions are also considered duplicate content. Duplicate title tags and meta descriptions often happens as a result of CMS software or...

  4. Google’s Matt Cutts Talks Infographics, Differentiation & More SEO Topics

    Google web spam czar Matt Cutts recently spoke with Eric Enge on duplicate content, the problem with infographics, competing against big brands, and more. Enge raised an excellent point: searchers who land on the site for the Chicago location have...

  5. 3 Hard Lessons to Learn From Penguin: Be Relevant, Be Balanced, Keep it Real

    The Panda update targeted low value on-page optimization focusing on duplicate content and spammy outbound links, while Penguin is targeting largely inbound links, dropping the rankings of sites/pages that might have unnatural links pointing to them.

  6. Panda DNA: Algorithm Tests on the Google Panda Update

    And sites with great content were affected because of some technical issues that caused additional duplicate content. Because we knew Panda was a machine learning algorithm, we expected there to be many separate patterns and thresholds for various...