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…
Has SEO Really Changed? One reason I don’t make many blog posts aside from updating our Risky Link Encyclopedia page is that fundamentally SEO has not changed much in the last decade. To be clear, there have been some huge changes with the internet as a whole but these changes have had only limited impact…
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…
How Much Times Have Changed – Blog Comment Spam in 2007 I think this screenshot speaks for itself: Back in 2007 comments were approved with exact anchor text on the blog for Google’s head of webspam, mattcutts.com. And these aren’t just black sheep. There are lots more comments like it. Apparently comment spam like “A…
If you haven’t been keeping up, this year Google has launched a major Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (FUD) campaign against the practice of guest blogging. Guest blogging is the practice of writing posts on other related blogs in order to expose your company or site to their audiences. It is generally done on relevant sites…
In the latest webmaster Q&A hangouts, John Mueller, Google’s Webmaster Trends Analyst has answered (or revealed the answer) to a lot of big questions on how the disavow works and how long it can take for heavily penalized sites. This post will go over some of the main points in the meeting. This is the 1…
The Google Penguin algorithm has been the specter for search engine optimization for close to 2 years now… Since Penguin 2.1 last year, webmasters are still asking how this update has impacted their site. From looking at countless penalized sites so far, the conclusion is clear, Google Penguin 2.1 had a significantly greater effect than…
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…