A sensible, non-spammy domain name No one wants to link to a website that looks spammy or as if it's been around since 1995 (and never updated once). It's astonishing how often a potential client contacts me about link building for their site, only...
Some pages on this site may have been hacked by a third party to display spammy content or links. Spammy Free Hosts and Dynamic DNS Providers Site is hosted by a free hosting service or dynamic DNS provider that has a significant fraction of spammy...
Share content that is newsworthy, but don’t use press releases because that’s spammy. As the Penguin 2.0 dust settles the SEO pundits are racing to interpret what Google has done and what it means. But unlike many other industries where there are...
Google’s Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts has announced that a new ranking update, one that targets spammy queries is now live. New Ranking Update for Some Spammy Queries The ranking update for spammy queries, which will impact 0.3 percent to 0.5...
They are looking to see you put in at least as much effort into cleaning up the spammy link profile as went into creating it. When the disavow links tool was introduced, many were expecting a panacea – a reset button to cure all ills created by a...
There is a common misconception that unnatural links only exist on low-quality, spammy sites. Some automated tools can also mark a link as questionable if it comes from a low PR site, but not all low PR sites are spammy.
Using Screaming Frog can help you avoid visiting all of the spammy pages over and over again. You'll need to analyze your link profile, identify spammy links, and then export them to Excel. That said, you can use both approaches to thoroughly check...
Does Google Penguin 2.0 Go Deeper on Spammy Links? It's now been one week since Google Penguin 2.0 went live. Google's Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts promised the new generation of Penguin would go deeper, and it seems to have lived up to that...
Future algorithm updates will throw those links aside, but the damage that spammy links do to your brand will be much more painful. There's a lot of panic and turmoil right now in the world of link building, but there doesn't have to be – you just...
He said that they are targeting specific areas (another example he included was porn queries) that have traditionally been more spammy. The latest Google Webmaster video features Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts talking about what webmasters can...
They had decent PR so a quick PR check wouldn't have immediately alerted me to them, but seeing the hosting country did, and yes, they were all spammy links. However, sitewides can be quite spammy. Many penalized profiles tend to have a lot of...
Best to stay away from anything that can look remotely spammy. As the SEO rumor mill spun this week with murmurs of the arrival of yet another significant Google update, I began to think back on all this year's changes and then back to all the...
Did an SEO company build spammy links on your behalf? 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.
Years ago, your link building strategy may have consisted of generating about a thousand spammy links while playing a round of golf. Big brands and mom-and-pop shops alike got beaten down for all of their spammy backlinks.
If my web host has a lot of spammy clients, will that influence my site's ranking in search results? Google's Matt Cutts and former ex-Googlers talk spam, rankings, and SEO tips. Google has safer results than Bing, Yandex, and Blekko.
Your marketing efforts need to reflect the realities of 2013, which doesn't include any spammy SEO. In other words, links that aren't spammy and available just for the taking (no more blog comments, web 2.0 microsites, article directories, etc).
He worked through the weekend contacting the link builders they used about taking down the spammy links. So, if the business owner and his team didn't build any of the spammy links, and a third party didn't either, then how in the world did the...
Most SEO professionals will point to anchor text as the key telltale metric when it comes to identifying spammy link profiles. Expect this process to accelerate now the search giant has so much data on "spammy links" and swathes of link profiles...
Don’t use spammy blog networks or buy links from shady websites. Google is growing market share and vowing to implement more changes aimed at reducing web spam and manipulative linking. But to the average small business owner these constant changes...
However, this can lead to spammy practices, so please be careful! When I brainstorm with colleagues about their approach to link building, the most common starting point is to analyze the websites and backlink profiles from their competitors and...
