Now that we have that straightened out, what does content marketing have to do with Penguin, SEO, future penalties, and you? The company had never bought a link, was completely legit, and worked feverishly on their content marketing – yet they had...
We've seen the rise of unnatural links manual penalties. As my pal Dan Thies mused the other day, “if you're doing outreach for guest posting/links; how is that inbound in any way shape of form? One of the more catchy buzz phrases over the last...
Some of the same activities that were responsible for ascending to number one in the SERPs are now responsible for manual penalties. If those pages have a high number of inbound links from unique domains, it may be worth creating an even better...
In the first instance checking that the rate at which you acquire links is controlled and natural will help you avoid triggering any algorithmic penalties. The profiling and understanding of anchor text though in this context is perhaps the most...
What can you do to avoid triggering one of Google’s algorithmic penalties or results-dampening filters? Your website might be over optimized if … Your only inbound links come from Wikipedia. Your website might be over optimized if … Your inbound...
Forbes is one of the worst offenders - and according to TechCrunch, they play dumb when they are discovered and Forbes themselves even write about how Google Penalties are ineffectual. Most SEOs aspire to be genius inbound marketers, eschewing 'the...
In the end, you will find you will get better links, more diversified links, and will be less prone to search engine penalties. The piece received 86 inbound links, 144 Diggs on Digg.com, and 25 retweets on Twitter.
The ranking penalties weren't necessarily at an anchor text level but at the landing page level with respect to the inbound links directing to these landing pages. As I reviewed my link profiles I found that when I visually removed the now improper...
If you have several location pages, it's important the copy is unique on each page to reduce any potential duplicate content penalties. Inbound links should be created between your site and several relevant local sites.
Web sites that pay close attention to SE guidelines (or too much attention) do not generally receive penalties. Would a site with, say, millions of inbound links raise a red flag? No search engine can EVER penalize backlinks.
In the second of a two-part article, we look at search engine penalties applied by Yahoo and MSN, and how webmasters can avoid them, or get them removed once sites are in the penalty box. Yahoo's search engine penalties
In the second of a two-part article, we look at search engine penalties applied by Yahoo and MSN, and how webmasters can avoid them, or get them removed once sites are in the penalty box. A longer version of this story for Search Engine Watch...
Coping with Search Engine Penalties Search engine penalties are present and pervasive, and are a primary method used by search engines to control webmasters. Here are some penalties that I've seen applied by Google in my own search engine...
It would be very simple to run a report saying give me a list of all the sites on this IP network and flag all those with PR above a particular level," Massa said, which is how he believes some of these sites that he doesn't own got caught in the...
Google PageRank Penalties High Rankings Advisor, Oct.http://www.highrankings.com/issue029.htm The first two rules cover "inbound" links, those aimed at your site. The changes got the search engine optimization forums buzzing, with all types of...
There are also boosts and penalties involved. Download Google's Toolbar (http://toolbar.google.com) to ensure that inbound links are from decent sites, with a minimum of 3 out of 10 on the toolbar. All of this leads to hundreds of inbound links.
