The terrifying connection between malware, Google Search Console and AdWords
in the midst of a malware emergency or want to ensure you never have to deal with one? Columnist Glenn Gabe provides tips and recommendations based on his experience helping clients with security situations.
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Hacked Content On The Rise: Take SEO Precautions To Protect Your Site
Don’t get penalized due to malware! Columnist Tony Edward discusses the recent uptick in hacked content in search results and provides tips to protect your site.
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Google Changes Car Insurance Links After SEOs Complain
Google quickly changes their keyword rich anchor text in a recent blog post to avoid controversy in the SEO industry around link spam and link schemes. Will this lead to Google penalizing themselves again?
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4 Easy & Honest SEO Mistakes That Could Penalize Your Site
You did everything right when optimizing your site for search — or so you thought. Contributor Neil Patel explains where you may have gone wrong.
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SEO: The O Is For Outing
As professional SEOs, we have a responsibility to make the web a better place. Contributor Kerry Dean argues that accusing our peers of wrongdoing may not be the best way to do this.
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Calculating The Risk Of Search Engine Spam
Contributor Shari Thurow describes what can happen if you don’t follow search engine guidelines on SEO.
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Google Targets Sites Using Private Blog Networks With Manual Action Ranking Penalties
Google has reportedly taken action on sites participating in private blog networks, also known as PBNs. On September 18th, Google sent out widespread manual action notices via Google Webmaster Tools to these sites for “thin content” spam. Google considers thin content to be search spam…
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Lawyers Sue SEO firm For Violating Google Guidelines
A law firm in Michigan, Seikaly & Stewart, is suing its former SEO provider — but not for a lack of ranking success. Rather the firm is getting sued for allegedly using “spammy” techniques violating Google’s guidelines. That comes via Eric Goldman. The…
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Google Hits eBay With Manual Penalty In Search Results
What really happened to eBay dropping in Google’s search results this week? A source familiar with the situation tells Search Engine Land that Google hit eBay with a manual penalty this week. A manual penalty is when a human being at Google reviews a site and decides that it deserves some type of…
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On MetaFilter Being Penalized By Google: An Explainer
MetaFilter is a news and discussion site dating back to the early years of the web. Founded in 1999, it’s attracting attention this week after coming forward about how a Google penalty has severely harmed its business, to the degree of having to let staff go. It serves as a poster child of…
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Negative SEO From Links — What Can You Do If You’re Hit?
In this post, we cover the basics of negative search engine optimization (SEO) and look at what you can do to fight negative SEO link spam. This being a hot topic in the industry, I encourage readers to comment at the end of the article. What Is Negative SEO? First, let’s take a moment to…
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Coupons, Coupon Codes, Promo Codes…When Content Is NOT King
A few years ago, I did some work for a comparison shopping/coupon website. Curious about how well the site was doing in regard to their SEO, I did a few search queries for some of the terms I remembered being big traffic drivers. I didn’t see my former client on page one for the first few…
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Google Provides More Clarity Around Sneaky Redirects Against Their Guidelines
Google announced on their Webmaster blog that they have updated two of their guideline documents to improve the clarify around what are sneaky redirects that are against their webmaster guidelines. Google has expanded their guidelines to ensure webmast…
How A Single Guest Post May Have Gotten An Entire Site Penalized By Google
Google made it clear earlier this year that those doing guest posts “for SEO purposes” might be subject to penalties. But the latest chapter in its war on guest posts feels a bit crazy: an entire site put into Google’s penalty box because of a single guest post that Google…
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Google Now Targeting Italian & Spanish Link Spammers
Less than a month after Google targeted Polish link spammers and German link spammers, Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts announced Google is targeting more countries. Google’s Matt Cutts announced warnings to Spanish and Italian webmasters and SEOs not to use unnatural links to…
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Someone Outranking You With Your Own Content? Use The New Google Scraper Report
One of the most frustrating experiences for any publisher is discovering that someone not only has copied your content but outranks you on Google for searches related to that content. Now, Google seems to have heard the complaints and has launched a to…
When The Best Move Is To Kill The Site
The contents of the following column are based on real circumstances. Certain elements have been changed to respect the privacy of each site. Imagine there are two websites. Here are their basic profiles: Site One is an e-commerce company and website l…
Open Letter: Why Search Engine Land Will & Won’t Cover Someone Being Penalized By Google
It’s been big news recently about major brands and Google penalties, and the floodgates feel open on people spotting even more brands possibly hit out there. Some new crackdown by Google? No. It’s the rise of hyperactive attention in this area, and that’s turning into a problem….
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5 Times Google Penalized Itself For Breaking Its Own SEO Rules
Make no mistake. Plenty of sites — big brands included — willingly do things in an attempt to rank better on Google that go past SEO tactics that Google itself considers acceptable. However, there’s also no better poster child for how complicated and confusing Google’s rules…
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Google’s Latest Manual Action Penalty: Spammy Structured Markup
Google has recently began sending a new manual action spam notification to webmasters for “spammy structured markup” also known as rich snippet spam. This comes after Google dropped 15% of the rich snippets, setting the bar higher for what sites are able to display rich snippets in the…
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