If your penalty is in regards to an on-site issue, such as selling links that pass PageRank, then you need to remove or nofollow those links. If your website has received a manual penalty notice from Google, then your first step is to repair the...
Most sites have no Toolbar PageRank, are not indexed in Google and if they are, they don't rank for the brand/URL or any snippets from the homepage. Same Google Analytics number or Google AdSense number used.
Google assigns weight or authority to links using its own PageRank currency, but like any currency it is limited and that means that we all have to work hard to earn it from sites that have, over time, built up enough to go around.
This notion is at the very core of the original PageRank thesis. First and foremost, I don't work for Google. This article represents my opinions, but my company has worked on helping large numbers of sites get Google penalties removed.
Press websites refuse to link out, even to accredited sources and webmasters nofollow links in case they "leak PageRank" or link to a "bad neighborhood". Google has done well at scaring webmasters to linking out fairly to other websites.
Ever since Google introduced PageRank in 1998, we've all been taught to look at link metrics, whether it's PageRank itself, SEOmoz's Domain Authority, Majestic's CitationFlow, etc. Page metrics are hugely important, especially when you consider...
In addition, you don’t want to inhibit the flow of PageRank through your site. Let’s face it, either you can tell them about it, or Google can at some point. I use my programming skills on a regular basis in SEO, and especially when performing SEO...
Author Rank is more variable than PageRank when it comes to recognizing topic diversification. After all, unlike PageRank, it's difficult to increase Author Rank, but extremely easy to decrease it. Know how to properly format each post as Google...
I'm happy to see him ask that we not use Toolbar PageRank as a reliable metric, only as a potential indicator of quality that needs to be examined in conjunction with other metrics. Actually there's a lot of information here about PageRank, which...
Internal links are a great way to manage relevancy signals and PageRank flow throughout a site, but linking to additional internal sources of quality information on your site helps provide context for and further educate your audience, which only...
Google has also recently reiterated their policy on paid links, expanding their definition to include “entire advertorial pages with embedded links that pass PageRank. The well-covered Interflora Google penalty was lifted as of March 3 with many of...
The PageRank is a 5 and your inbox is inundated with requests for links to relevant websites in your industry. Many of your customers have posted positive reviews on your Google+ page; your email is full of correspondence (after your new video hit...
Your average newspaper reader doesn’t know SEO from SOS or PageRank from page views. The strategy of spamming wire services with sales pitches or informative articles under a press release header has been recognized, and Google's Distinguished...
Generally speaking, the more inbound root domain links acquired, the higher the domain authority, PageRank, rankings, and traffic. They describe how the old tactics don't work and introduce new concepts formed from the latest Google algorithm update.
The days when upper management was impressed by subtle changes in PageRank have been replaced by questions about Lifetime Value (LTV), Return on Investment (ROI), and Cost per Acquisition (CPA). As an example, he showed what happened to the SEO...
Links that appear on a page with Google PageRank that is gray bar or zero. Shaun Andersentweeted that same day “Less backlinks available in Google Webmaster Tools by the looks of it - I am seeing about a third of the links once shown.
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.
Passing PageRank to affiliates is never a smart idea, and Google isn’t going to react well. And as you can guess, Google organic traffic is how they landed most of their business. The poor SEO tactics actually worked for a period of time until...
The author gets a link to their site, with all of the PageRank that passes through that. The biggest problem is that Google looks down on do-follow links that are paid for. If you decide to charge for guest posts, you had better assign the links as...
Appear on a page with Google PageRank that is gray bar or zero. Appear on a domain with Google PageRank that is gray barred or zero. Since all of the major back link services have their own version of Google PageRank, we’ll start by exporting the...
