I rather stupidly tanked my website on Google. I had built some back links pointing to my website that I wanted to be indexed. As in the past index services are so hit and miss, I decided to purchase 5 in one go – Stupid of me I know Within three days of paying for […]
Bing is introducing a spam penalty against “inorganic site structure” violations, the search engine announced on Monday. The new penalty seeks to address tactics such as subdomain leasing, doorway content and sites that participate in private blog networks. Where your website ends. To provide context for its new penalty, Bing provided two examples of typical
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Editor’s note: “Ask an SEO” is a weekly column by technical SEO experts Jenny Halasz and Kristine Schachinger. Come up with your hardest SEO question and fill out our form. You might see your answer in the next #AskanSEO post! This week for “Ask An SEO”, we have a question from Quora: “What is a
This isn’t exactly new, news – I covered this in 2014, but with the news around Dejan getting hit badly by a manual action, his plan is to move to a new domain and not redirect the old domain to the new. But John Mueller from Google rained on his parade, if you can call
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A well known and respected search marketer who hasn’t built links in five years tweeted that he received a manual link penalty. Dan Petrovic, of Dejan SEO tweeted that he was shocked to see that his site didn’t even rank for its own brand name. Dan Petrovic, a respected search marketer from Australia tweeted that
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If you recently didn’t pay your taxes and now owe a penalty, you may qualify for some kind of penalty relief. If this is the first year you’ve stumbled, you could be a good candidate for First-Time Penalty Abatement. This article takes a look at what First-Time Penalty Abatement is, who qualifies, how to request
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Gary Illyes from Google in his Reddit AMA said that Google does not have an internal linking over optimization penalty. He went on to say, in his Gary tone, “you can abuse your internal links as much as you want AFAIK.” Here was the question: Straightforward question: is there an internal linking overoptimization penalty? I’m
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Many people are more afraid of duplicate content than they are of spammy links. There are so many myths around duplicate content that people actually think it causes a penalty and that their pages will compete against each other and hurt their website. I see forum posts, Reddit threads, technical audits, tools, and even SEO
Get to know what ‘spam,’ ‘cloaking’ and ‘value’ are and why ignoring the warnings against them can cost you. October 3, 2018 5 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. We live in a digital world, where the difference between landing on the first page of a prominent search engine vs. the
Earlier this year, eBay was hit with a search penalty by Google. The loss of traffic resulting from that has been noticeable enough that eBay acknowledged it in a financial call this week, suggesting it may have cost up to $200 million in revenue. eBay also said it plans to improve its efforts in paid search, something
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