According to the ICO, it thought that "detriment caused to individuals by this breach fails to meet the level required to issue a monetary penalty", meaning Google faces no financial liability. The UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has...
Have you ever received a Google Webmaster email stating that your site was given a "manual spam penalty" for having "pure spam"? When a manual action (penalty) has been applied to your site, it is always best to seek the help of a qualified SEO...
Manual penalty recovery and Penguin algorithmic recovery are both appropriate uses of the tool. Keep in mind that only a manual penalty requires the added step of filing a reconsideration request. Only if you're under a manual penalty, will you...
In many cases, the person who is auditing links and asking for link removal is not the same person who made the links that got them into penalty trouble. However, the majority of the time, when someone sends an email asking for a link to be taken...
Or even hit by a penalty? Disclaimer: This column contains ideas that advocate radical changes to the SEO strategy for many web publishers. This may or may not be the best thing for you to consider for your website.
Even with the Interflora penalty, more webmasters have been utilizing advertorials and other types of paid promotional content for search engine ranking benefits, so Google's Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts is bringing the issue up and alerting...
Unnatural Links Recovery: Emerging from a Manual Penalty When it comes to Google’s Disavow Tool, there was plenty of speculation and testing as to what approach to take. Should webmasters disavow everything and start clean?
This isn't a manual penalty, it's an algorithmic update. Google's Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts promised the new generation of Penguin would go deeper, and it seems to have lived up to that promise.
Last week Google announced the removal of thousands of link selling websites and we are hearing of a manual spam penalty against Sprint this week. Google has just rolled out Penguin 2.0, a large algorithmic update promising to go “deeper” than the...
What Was "Good Ol' SEO" is a Penalty Now What Was "Good Ol' SEO" is a Penalty Now While this type of penalty requires a manual review and is harder for Google to find, the method of finding these techniques has gotten a lot easier.
If your website has received a manual penalty notice from Google, then your first step is to repair the site so it complies with Google’s quality guidelines. Once that work is done, you'll then have to file a reconsideration request to get your...
After you have meticulously completed a link audit and followed all of the steps necessary to emerge from a manual penalty, you will find a note like this in Google Webmaster Tools: A key factor in recovering from a penalty is a promise to adhere...
But that's exactly what happened this past February, when I helped a company with a troubling unnatural link situation PRIOR TOits website getting hit by Penguin (or a manual penalty). We emphasized that we did not want my client's site getting hit...
After the dust settles (or a webmaster receives a penalty), the smart marketer starts viewing the costs associated with good SEO as a wise investment. Google is growing market share and vowing to implement more changes aimed at reducing web spam...
Price stated that he believes that achieving the top of Page 1 may require deviation from Webmaster guidelines and the risk of a penalty by Google. People spend more time on the Internet than watching TV.
Unsurprisingly, akin to every Indian summer these all ended in a cold, gloomy winter .or a manual penalty. This will be the first time that this many Meetup groups of marketing professionals, brand advertisers, agencies, and business leaders from...
Although the report refers to Penguin a penalty, Penguin isn't a penalty. A penalty is a manual action taken against a site. Yes, the Penguin update has demoted the rankings of sites, but as Google's Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts has explained...
Was Digg the victim of a manual penalty? The Internet was certainly talking about Digg today when people discovered the social news site was no longer appearing in Google's search results. Did Digg have an issue with its robots.txt file?
Quick scaling can lead to penalties so it's important to understand what a penalty actually is, as I see way too many people incorrectly attributing a falling ranking to a penalty. If you don't understand what a penalty is and you misidentify it...
The well-covered Interflora Google penalty was lifted as of March 3 with many of the major rankings returning. These statements seem connected to the Interflora penalty as several British newspaper sites hosted advertorial pages with dofollow links...
