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Guide to Black Hat SEO: which practices will earn you a manual penalty?
In order to elucidate further on the behaviours that will lead to a penalty, let’s take a look at the ‘black hat SEO’ practices.
A Look at Local Search
Proximity, relevance and prominence are the three cornerstones of local SEO. Reviews are also important, though they don't affect rankings nearly as much as many people think.
Six Crucial Link Building Strategies to Drive Quality Traffic
Here are the six most important factors that will guide your link-building strategy and help you choose the perfect immediate tactics to implement on your website.
Bing’s URL Keyword Stuffing Filter Reduces Traffic to Spam Sites by 75%
Bing says it looked at a number of signals that suggest possible use of URL keyword stuffing and its efforts have since impacted 3 percent of queries.
Bing Waxes Lyrical on Spam Detection and Filtering
A post on the Bing blog explores the inner workings of Web spam, what it looks like, what Bing is doing about it, and why it's not always easy to determine intent.
You’ve Been Hit by Penguin! Should You Start Over or Try to Recover?
If you've been affected by Google's Penguin algorithm, the results can sometimes be devastating. Can your site ever recover, or does it make more sense to just scrap the site and start with a new one? This post will help you decide.
Matt Cutts on How Google Ranks Pages That Don’t Get Many Links
How does Google determine that content is quality, when there aren't many links pointing to it? Or how is it determined that the content is spammy or thin, when there are a lot of links pointing to it? Google's Matt Cutts explains.
The Link Graph Conundrum: Why Citations Remain Critical to SEO Survival
These activities will all give you alternative ways to build your reputation, visibility, and traffic. They also give you the best chance that your site will be sending out the types of signals that search engines want to discover and value anyway.
32 Ways to Trip a Google Spam Filter
Ever wonder how or why your website lost its once favorable rankings in Google? If you want to stay on the good side of Matt Cutts and Google and avoid potentially activating a Google spam filter, never implement any of the these 32 tactics.
Not Ranking in Google: Is a Manual Penalty, Algorithmic Change, or Content to Blame?
Is it possible to tell if your website has been impacted by one particular Google algorithm? That will be extremely tricky, according to Google's Matt Cutts. In 2012 alone, Google rolled out 665 changes to how search results are ranked.
