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...
Google’s next iteration of Penguin could lower the tolerance level for spammy inbound links even further; this might even be what Matt Cutts was referring to when he stated at this year’s SXSW that the next Penguin release would be significant and...
In the process of removing a spammy link on Digg.com, we inadvertently applied the webspam action to the whole site. The Internet was certainly talking about Digg today when people discovered the social news site was no longer appearing in Google's...
Calls to action in PPC ads can often seem spammy, lazy – desperate even. We all blindly attribute a portion of our copywriting success to this idea and never look back. As it turns out, we may be falling prey to the classic “if it ain’t broke, don...
With SEO, there are many tactics that go against the grain, but the one I’m going to focus on here that is roughly equivalent to the inane Facebook posts issue is that of creating spammy pages on legitimate sites.
On the site, Google explains that to combat the "millions of useless spam pages" created every day, it identifies and fights spammy techniques (e.g.keyword stuffing, paid links, invisible text) through a mix of algorithmic (computer) and manual...
This is particularly helpful to Google in their pursuit to de-value links from spammy blog networks that provide no value to end-users. Each year SEO experts profess that SEO, as we knew it, is dead. They describe how the old tactics don't work and...
Links that appear on the same page as spammy, unrelated links. Don’t wait for a Penguin update to wipe out your rankings in the SERPs or an “unnatural links” warning to hit your inbox. The best time to perform a link audit is now.
OK, you can substitute “spammy”, “risky”, or “unnatural” for “wrong” in the subheading above. The links being built were all spammy. And those questions could have halted the process of acquiring more spammy links, which in turn, could have kept...
And this disdain isn’t reserved for spammy scraper sites or thin affiliates only. 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...
Tons of spammy template sites are built in order to capture rankings and traffic and send it elsewhere, for example, but the chances of those types of sites having a Facebook page with 1,000 fans who actually comment and interact is pretty slim.
Requests with broken English, articles with spammy links, and other poor-quality markers can be frustrating, especially when received in bulk. With search engines constantly evolving and fighting obvious spam techniques, bloggers have been subject...
The recent Google Penguin update to Google's search algorithm was designed to deal with keyword stuffing among other spammy techniques. On-page optimization – or everything that can be done to boost your ranking on and within the web page itself...
