Webspam Update – AKA Google Penguin Update



That’s a quote btw from possibly the hottest forum on the web at the moment…..(EDIT – about the Google Penguin Update or Google Webspam update, as it turned out, that affected A LOT of webmasters – not just the type Google would label webspammers). Google has dropped the nuke If Google didn’t win the war today…. they certainly dropped [...]

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Negative SEO Works? Keep An Eye On Your Link Acquisition Velocity



Can a competitor hurt your site by pointing lots of links at it….. this is very interesting. Dan apparently annoyed a few people…. and they decided to use his site as an example how NEGATIVE SEO can actually work to destroy a website rankings….Dan spotted his rankings take a nosedive, – EDIT – Dan got a [...]

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Is Your Website Sinking Like The Titanic in Google Due To Unnatural Links?



If you work in search marketing, unless you have been living under a rock, you’ll be no doubt aware of the hundreds of thousands of webmaster messages that Google sent out basically telling people Google knows about your crap links and it’s going to do something about it. Well, a lot of chatter in webmaster [...]

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SEO: Tweets Or Links



Is traditional link building dead? Are tweets the new links? Not for me, just yet….. Pointblank SEO has a good post with 24 seo discussing the power of social website links (like ‘tweets’) versus traditional links like blog posts (for example). You should read it. I don’t think Google is about to throw away it’s $10bn [...]

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Google Chrome Ranking Penalty



If any website on the web is caught buying links, normally the website cannot rank for a lot of its valuable keywords. Looks like the same website ranks for the same keywords. Not much of a penalty. Well, I’ve seen worse….. In case you don’t know what I am on about – Google penalised itself [...]

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