But if you get one of these sent to you with these words in it, they mean very specific things and you need to do very specific things to help your site recover. Disclaimer: Penalties of any type are difficult to recover from – especially if they...
In the aftermath of that rollout, webmasters that were affected are now desperate to recover. It has now been 18 days since Penguin 2.0 rolled out on May 22, 2013. Some are looking to toward the Disavow Links tool to bail them out.
There may be other reasons for site owners to go on link removal campaigns, such as attempting to recover from Penguin or performing a pre-emptive backlink cleanup. Are you the owner of a good quality site who has been asked to remove a link, or...
You can spend 6 to 12 months trying to recover if you get too cute about it. 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...
Cleaning up your profile likely won't be enough to recover from Penguin 2.0, however. 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.
Invariably, Google seeks out these techniques and penalizes them, resulting in lost rankings that can take months to recover.spot on Google. This isn't an if question. Robust online marketing is imperative for survival in a web-driven world.
A full discussion on what needs to be done to recover from a penalty is outside of the scope of this article. 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...
You get one chance to recover from a manual penalty. If penalized a second time, it will become exponentially more difficult to recover. We received a request from a site owner to reconsider http://www.example.com/ for compliance with Google's...
Most Penguin work is reactive, where companies respond to a severe drop in traffic and try to recover. I've completed a lot of Penguin work since April 24, 2012 (more than I ever wanted to if I'm being honest).
If you're looking to recover from a penalty, then access to GWT What is the definitive source for backlinks to look at? If the primary objective is to recover from a penalty, one needs to focus on GWT and those areas that fall outside of the...
Over the past year, we’ve helped a number of site owners recover from Panda. It may be a new year, but that hasn’t stopped Google from rolling out yet another Panda refresh. Last year Google unleashed the most aggressive campaign of major algo...
Many businesses were taken off guard when it first hit and have paid search engine optimization (SEO) consultants a large sum to recover prior search performance levels. By now, everyone in the ecommerce search engine world – including digital...
But I found a way to recover because there are “lots of fish in the sea. Would I recover? On the heels of Google’s earnings announcement, I thought it would be an appropriate time to confess. It’s hard to admit it, like the first time you’re about...
This penalty might be an algorithmic filter at the keyword or page level, but more likely the penalty you receive will be manual and these are often the hardest from which to recover. You're awesome. Your site is fantastic.
The point of the tool therefore isn’t to help sites recover, but to give Google the data they need to clear the web graph so they can compete in the era of semantic search. I’m here to argue that the opposite could actually be true and that those...
With the economy beginning to recover, attending the leading conferences and expos in your industry is important to keep informed and competitive as we head toward the holiday season and 2013. So, what are the three key reasons for attending SES...
We’ve asked Google to confirm that webmasters can recover from this update by having their site modified and recrawled. Google’s Matt Cutts has announced the first official update to January’s Page Layout algorithm, designed to reward sites with...
If you do have a quality or duplicate content issue, Josh McCoy offers some advice on how to recover in his post "Algorithm Updates, Duplicate Content & A Recovery". A Panda refresh will be rolling out over the next few days, Google today announced...
Now the question is, can you recover? Yes, you can recover. How Much Will You Recover? Some of these have been companies that have gone really deep with bad linking practices. Lots of article directories, lots of directories, lots of paid guest...
Even worse, your site could be slapped by Panda, which most affiliate sites don't have the resources to recover from. I work specifically with travel affiliate sites and it’s been a painful experience for many of them.
