Now a lot of affiliates are saying Google hates affiliates, and based on what happened with the Penguin update and Panda updates, one could argue that they do. As we all know, not all affiliate sites are poor quality, thin content farms spammed to the top with links. Let's say you were hit, and you…
[caption id="attachment_25661" align="alignright" width="300" caption="A Panda update so small, few noticed it at all."][/caption] Google unrolled Panda 3.9.1 on Monday, though the impact of the once-feared update is fairly limited at this point. According to a Tweet from Google's official Twitter account, this latest refresh, once again, impacted around 1% of all queries. The last…
For the past few months webmasters have been reporting a huge uptick in the number of automated messages and warnings on their Google Webmaster Tools dashboard. The messages warn of everything from unnatural links to bad practices. One that's been getting a lot of attention on SEO forums is the Big Traffic Change Warning. That…
[caption id="attachment_25490" align="alignright" width="283" caption="I think we're going to need a bigger boat."][/caption] Matt Cutts is warning that the next Google Penguin update will be, "jarring and jolting," for SEOs. Given his normally cryptic choice of words, this statement is setting off alarm bells throughout the SEO world. Cutts made his statements at the SES…
Determining the difference between a Google penalty and an algorithm update isn't the easiest task for SEO practitioners. On any given day SEO forums are lit up with posting asking, "Did Google just update Penguin/Panda?" or "Did I just catch a penalty?" In the heat of the moment, when traffic and revenues are plummeting, the…
PENGUIN PANDA When was it introduced? April 2012 February 2011 How broad was the impact? 3.1% of English language queries 12% of English language queries Target Unnatural links, link exchanges, paid link exchanges, and article directories. Low quality content, content scraping, content farms. Did it achieve the desired effect? Sure, Google holds most of the…
Do you know how to pick up a penalty from Google? It seems like every day the search engine giant adds a few more items to its list of things you shouldn't be doing; and keeping track of the changes can be challenging. A recent blog posting over at SearchEngineJournal.com titled 25 Ways to Get…
Websites with a high volume of valid copyright infringement claims will be subject to a new Google penalty. It's part of an effort aimed reducing the record number of copyright complaints Google has been fielding the last couple of years. The announcement came from Google's Senior VP of Engineering, Amit Singhal who said: Starting next…
[caption id="attachment_24824" align="alignright" width="259" caption="Google doesn't like links that hang out in bad neighborhoods, and neither does your Mom."][/caption] Rooting out unnatural links from your backlinks network has become a top priority for many affiliate partners in the post-Penguin SEO world. But rooting out those less-than-organic links isn't quite so easy, until now. In a…
You may notice that most of the big SEO winners are mega brands and that's true, mainly due to the fact that these brands give off all the right signals to the big G to get the best rankings, natural social shares, lots of brand based search (of course Google considers this) and of course…
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