How bad was the content? Do you think your site has been hit by Panda? While Google has now rolled the Panda algorithm into the main algorithm, many publishers have never recovered from the many Panda updates that took place before this happened.
Too Much Info is Bad To those in marketing, "sales" is a dirty word. A discipline based purely on aggressive, pushy, cold conversion. In some sales environments that may not be far from the truth, but if you've met a truly gifted sales person, then...
That, in and of itself would be bad enough, but I was faced with taking the data that was available (about eight months worth) and figuring out what the top pages were and what keywords brought those visitors in through Google's organic listings.
If, despite your best planning, crowdsourcing heads off in a bad direction, and you have no way to steer it back in the right direction, then pulling the plug is the best way to go. By involving their audience to make them feel like their input is...
Have you had a bad experience with a plugin or theme (free or paid)? There are a few telltale signs. Here are some ways you can identify trustworthy themes and plugins so you can be rest assured the code is of good quality and, more importantly, safe.
What if this was unintentional, a bad SEO you hired or just like my client, something a user did on their site, what do you do? We are going to assume here you did this, or your bad SEO did this and this is not some type of negative SEO.
For those who despise link building, and the negative SEO aspect of competitors pointing bad links to websites, the fact that Google is putting greater emphasis on sites that users want to use and share will be good news to many webmasters.
It's not that anything is out of reach, but if you've had a New York Yankees-esque winning season based on bad practices then you've been playing on borrowed time for a while. Maybe there's an analogy here about everyone playing their own position...
With dynamic serving and separate sites there is always the opportunity for either bad redirects to land the user on irrelevant page or for no content to be served at all. Did you catch Google's recent post on its webmaster blog regarding mobile...
Number two, if there are a lot of bad pages, we could be sending out emails that are 50 MB long. Good news for webmasters who have been struggling to identify links and pages that have been trigger warnings in Google Webmaster Tools.
Sometimes there is cause to remove "bad content" from the search engines' indexes. Performing a log file analysis identified 20 "rogue" bots hitting the site, and had some concerns about the possibility of people scraping the client's content, so...
Jenkins went on to say that if the email looks bad, it can actually alter the perception of the brand. In another survey, almost 25% of people said that receiving an email that looks bad changed their perception to strongly negative of the brand.
Separately, Google is warning that if you have a bad mobile website, your search rankings will soon be hurting. Bad mobile SEO will cost you. Google’s Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts has announced that a new ranking update, one that targets...
I have a very, very bad habit of using SEO examples when I write so I'm going to avoid those as they aren't usually relevant to a lot of other industries of course, so if you are interested in contributing I would be insanely appreciative, but if...
They have to know it's possible things are bad. But, they are surrounded by people who love them and will protect them, but cannot hide the fact that there is something bad. Maurice Sendak was born on this date 85 years ago.
Cutts is quoted as saying "… if you were hit by Penguin and know or think you have bad links, you should probably use this tool. It has now been 18 days since Penguin 2.0 rolled out on May 22, 2013. In the aftermath of that rollout, webmasters that...
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but your website may not be as pretty or user-friendly as you think. How you think users interact with your website can be very different from reality. Perhaps the differing viewpoints of your website aren't as...
Bad at remembering special occasions? In a world where we're distracted by some 30,000+ brand messages per day, effortlessness in the user experience is becoming a highly desirable quality. Crafty Google, in realization of this, has been working...
Some sites have tens of thousands of unnatural links that need to be addressed, so it is possible that a few mistakes are made in classifying the good and the bad. Usually the SEO company that made their bad links is no longer working for them.
With the release of the much-anticipated algorithm update, many in the industry wondered how bad the damage would actually be. Google's Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts announced that Penguin 2.0 went live on May 22 and webmasters braced for the...
