Overcoming 4 black hat SEO techniques that spammers and scammers use to harm your search rankings
The dark side of SEO can be crippling to a business if they aren’t aware of how to fight back. Here are four negative (or black hat) SEO tactics to keep a keen eye out for, and how you can protect your site – and your business – from being a victim.
Hacked Joomla, Link Spam and Negative SEO Fears
Recently, igaming affiliates have been complaining about something that to many of them looks like negative SEO against their sites. A number of people have reported seeing links to their sites from pages that look like this: However, this is …
Outing Black Hat SEO; Should we, or should we not?
Should we, or should we not reveal agencies or companies that do black hat SEO? Who are we helping by outing others? State of Digital debates the issue.
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Outing Black Hat SEO; Should we, or should we not?
Should You Be Afraid of Blackhat SEO?
(This is the article I originally wrote for the BrightonSEO newspaper – I thought it would be of interest to a wider audience than BrightonSEO attendees. That said, BrightonSEO is a highly advisable event. It will be run again on …
What’s Wrong With Niche Link Selling Networks
Recently, while looking at various stuff, I came across this: While paid links is nothing new for the gambling industry and it’s not a secret to anyone that a lot of legitimate generally non-spammy branded gambling sites live and rank …
IATLD Ranking for a Gambling Term – How Ironic (Or Not?)
Just had a look at online casino bonus UK SERPs (the way I always do at 2 am) and saw this at #6: That’s right, the site of the International Association of Top Level Domains. Apparently it got hacked, …
How Does the Casino Bonus Spam Work?
Note: just like the previous one, this is not an outing post and is only intended to study the mechanisms of how things work in Google rather than out specific techniques (which, btw, have likely been already burnt by this …
Comment Spam Working Like a Charm for Local SERPs
This is not an outing post so I’m not naming any names or domains, it’s just a quick case study into what works these days for some SERPs. The whole SEO industry has been sweating over penalties for advertorials and …
How to Get Your Site Banned in 3 Easy Steps
Every SEO worth their salt should have three things handy (apart from their brain and imagination, of course): A high authority, high PR site A spammy, banned site A clear understanding when to use each This is probably not the …
Ways to Scale Content Creation
Content. The keystone of post-Panda SEO. Your thin affiliate sites are not good enough any more, nor is your contentless link spam. You hear every newbie and seasoned SEO alike saying it on every corner: C-O-N-T-E-N-T. And you subdue. You …
My Reply to Google’s Updates
Did this a while ago (right after G hit us with 3 updates in 10 days – all those Panda refreshes, Penguin refreshes, EMD…) but thought I’d post it here now. The effect that Google often reaches with all these …