How-To Guide
Cognitive SEO is one of the crucial data services we use and we have generally found them to be superior to Link Research Tools/Link Detox which we also used for many years. CSEO also uses Majestic’s API so Majestic users may be familiar with some of these metrics already. But this is not a review…
Rewind SEO’s Encyclopedia of Risky Links Updated: July 3, 2023. Originally published: August 31, 2014 Use the quick navigation bar on the right to skip to a specific link type -> This page lists link types, uses, and patterns that make up the most the most common causes for Google Penalties in 2014. It can…
Penguin: The Sitewide Link Slayer Let’s start with some history. After Google Penguin 2.0 nearly a year ago, I saw massive increases in sitewide link penalties from clients coming to us for penalty recovery and cleanup. Footer links seemed to be the single hardest hit link type but blogroll and sidebar links were no safer. In…
Assessing the type of penalty is always the first step for an SEO analysis. When a website receives an algorithm penalty like Penguin, there is no warning except for a loss in SERP rankings and corresponding loss in traffic. More often than not, this penalty can be easily attributed to either a new link building…
If you wish to create a disavow list or modify your existing disavow, you must understand how it is formatted in order not to mess anything up. On the other hand, the format is very simple. The disavow list can contain a combination of comments, individual URLs, and entire domains to be disavowed. It will…
This is a simple guide on how to submit the disavow file to Google. It is short and extremely easy, a refreshing change for Google. 1. Log into your webmaster tools and visit the following link: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/disavow-links-main 2. Select your site you wish to disavow links for by clicking on the URL box next to…
Google webmaster tools (now renamed to Google Search Console) provides a significant list of links to your site but it can be a little tricky just to figure out where download this list. The following guide explains how to download the list of backlinks to your site from GWT. Note that this requires your site…