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I’m an Official Majestic SEO Brand Ambassador

Posted on March 14, 2014 Written by Bill Hartzer

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I’m really excited about officially joining the Majestic SEO Ambassador program, and to have been accepted by the folks at Majestic SEO. I’ve been a proud user of Majestic SEO for many years now. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Link Building, Search Engine Optimization

Google Penguin Recovery: Site Owner Doesn’t Know About Resources Page on His Site

Posted on March 12, 2014 Written by Bill Hartzer

I spend a few hours each day helping site owners and business owners recover from the dreaded Google Penguin algorithm update. I thought that I had received crazy emails from site owners who don’t know how to update their website. But it’s also amazingly hilarious to me when I run into a site owner who doesn’t even know that certain pages exist on their website. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Link Building, Search Engine Optimization

Google Hosts Low Quality Article Directory with Links They Want Us to Remove

Posted on March 8, 2014 Written by Bill Hartzer

Oh, the irony. Google is hosting the very articles that contain links that Google is telling us that they want removed. Wait. What?!? That’s right, in what can only be a unique twist of irony, Google is playing web host to thousands of low quality spammy articles, the exact same type of articles that Google wants us to remove. And the links that they’re penalizing websites for having. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Google, Link Building, Search Engine Optimization

Linked from These Directories? Be Prepared To Pay for Removal

Posted on February 6, 2014 Written by Bill Hartzer

There’s a search engine optimization company out there that is requiring that you pay for removal if you want your link removed from their directory. This same SEO company built these web directories several years ago, touting the fact that they would help your search engine rankings if you were to get listed. Now they want payment for removal of your link.

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If you have a link on one of these directories, then expect to pay $25 for each link to be removed: [Read more…]

Filed Under: Link Building, Search Engine Optimization

Dear Shady SEO Firm: Stop Spreading Rumors about Unnatural Links and Google Penalties

Posted on January 6, 2014 Written by Bill Hartzer

Dear Shady SEO Firm:
Would you please stop, immediately, from spreading false and untrue rumors about the Google Disavow Tool? By spreading false rumors, you’re hurting the SEO industry as a whole and making it even more difficult for us honest, Google-Webmaster-Acceptable-Guideline-Abiding SEOs to get our jobs done properly. And don’t even think about threatening website owners about removing links to your client websites. That’s just flat out wrong. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Link Building, Search Engine Optimization

Use Google URL Removal Tool to Help with Google Penguin Recovery

Posted on December 19, 2013 Written by Bill Hartzer

Google has launched an improved URL removal tool that will make it easier to request updates based on changes on other people’s websites. But there is actually another use for this tool: it can be used to aid in a website’s Google Penguin Recovery if your site has been hit by Google Penguin. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Link Building, Search Engine Optimization

Google Reconsideration Request: How to Get a Manual Penalty Lifted

Posted on September 25, 2013 Written by Bill Hartzer

If you have ever received a manual penalty from Google, then you most likely have received this message in Google Webmaster Tools that could be an unnatural link warning, similar to this one that my client received: [Read more…]

Filed Under: Link Building, Search Engine Optimization

Link Building Firm: SEO Company Offers Natural Link Building Services

Posted on August 13, 2013 Written by Bill Hartzer

There are so many companies out there, some calling themselves a Link Building Firm, that claim to offer natural link building services, which is an interesting type of service. Think about it for a minute. If your company offered something called “natural” link building services, then the links that you get to your website uh, well, would NOT be natural? [Read more…]

Filed Under: Link Building, Search Engine Optimization

In a Post Google Penguin World, It is Still Okay to Link Out

Posted on June 5, 2013 Written by Bill Hartzer

In a post Google Penguin world, it is still okay (an natural) to link out to other websites. Here in June of 2013, I am horrified that I actually have to have this conversation with other website owners and bloggers. I mean, really. Why would it possibly hurt your search engine rankings if you linked out to a company’s website when you mention them in your blog post? [Read more…]

Filed Under: Link Building, Search Engine Optimization

Penalized or Banned in Google? Don’t Issue a Press Release Like IGXE Internet Gaming Exchange

Posted on May 13, 2013 Written by Bill Hartzer

If your website is banned in the Google search engine or if your website is penalized, then I don’t recommend writing and distributing a press release about it. IGXE the Internet Gaming Exchange, a company that specializes in selling MMORPG currencies, items, power leveling, and CD-keys, such as World of Warcraft gold, apparently got penalized in the Google search engine for buying links. As a result, instead of admitting that they did something wrong, they issued a press release telling others that they should not hire network marketing companies. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Link Building, Search Engine Optimization

It is Still Possible to Spam the Google Search Results

Posted on May 8, 2013 Written by Bill Hartzer

Breaking News: It is still possible to game the Google search results, even for commercial keyword phrases. In fact, you can even put up low-quality, low-content, spam web pages and get them to rank well in Google. Not only that, it is still possible, even when the Google Penguin and Google Panda have been in full force, to rank well with that low quality spam content and redirect visitors using a javascript redirect to another website. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Link Building, Search Engine Optimization

This is Not How You Should Perform Link Cleanups and Link Removals For Your Website

Posted on April 23, 2013 Written by Bill Hartzer

A UK-based online marketing agency named datadial recently received a threatening letter (a Cease and Desist letter) from Fox Williams LLP demanding that a link on their website be removed. The link in question was pointing to Shopzilla’s website. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Link Building, Search Engine Optimization

Marketplace to Buy, Sell Links Based on Google Authorship and Klout Launched

Posted on March 27, 2013 Written by Bill Hartzer

The first-ever online marketplace for buying and selling links in articles and blog posts based on Google Authorship and Klout score has been launched. Buying and selling links based on Google’s PageRank has long been a controversial topic, as well as a violation of Google’s Webmaster Guidelines. AuthorLinks is a marketplace for buying and selling links based on a web site owner’s Google Authorship and overall Klout score. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Link Building, Search Engine Optimization

Google Webmaster Tools Link Data Error Uploading into Google Docs

Posted on February 15, 2013 Written by Bill Hartzer

Way to go, Google. This just goes to show that the employees who work on your Google Webmaster Tools don’t talk to your Google Docs employees. Nothing can be more frustrating than using two Google products that don’t work with each other very well. Such is the case with Google Webmaster Tools and Google Docs. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Link Building, Search Engine Optimization

How to Respond to a Link Removal Request

Posted on February 3, 2013 Written by Bill Hartzer

Google has a lot of webmasters scared. Seriously, they really do. Webmasters are so scared now that they are randomly and blindly emailing all the sites that they know about that link to them–and asking for links to be removed to their website. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Link Building, Search Engine Optimization

Why I am No Longer a Link Builder But Now a Content Publicist

Posted on January 4, 2013 Written by Bill Hartzer


I think the title of this blog post says it all. Really. Here we are in the beginning of 2013 and many respected experts in the Search Engine Optimization industry offering their predictions for the year. I purposely have decided to not offer any predictions for the year. Rather, just go ahead and change my whole entire attitude and way of thinking when it comes to SEO, web site marketing, internet marketing, online marketing, whatever you want to call it these days. What is the change I’m making? [Read more…]

Filed Under: Link Building, Search Engine Optimization

Link Removal Request Email Related to Google Disavow Tool

Posted on November 25, 2012 Written by Bill Hartzer

Google has released their Google Disavow Tool, an online tool part of Google Webmaster Tools that allows web site owners disavow links to their web site. You really only need to use this tool if you’ve been unsuccessful in getting bad links or over-optimized anchor text links to your site removed. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Link Building, Search Engine Optimization

Google Sends Correction to Unnatural Links Messages in Google Webmaster Tools

Posted on July 23, 2012 Written by Bill Hartzer

If you have what Google calls “unnatural links” that hare pointing to your web site, then Google will notify you. They do these notifications via Google Webmaster Tools. In order to receive the messages, web site owners must go through a verification process to “verify their web site” and prove that they are the web site owner. Consider yourself lucky–or doing something right–if you have not received any of these “detection of unnatural links” messages. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Link Building, Search Engine Optimization

How NOT to Build Links to Your Website: Courtesy of American Express

Posted on May 11, 2012 Written by Bill Hartzer

As a courtesy and value-added service, American Express is building links and doing search engine optimization for many of their small business clients. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Link Building, Search Engine Optimization

Home Depot Caught Promoting Questionable Linking Tactics, Spreading False Information

Posted on April 11, 2012 Written by Bill Hartzer

Home Depot, the home improvement “big box” retailer, has been caught promoting what I call “questionable” link tactics and providing false information to their vendors. In an email to their vendors (specifically those who provide installation services), a representative from Home Depot encourages their vendors to link to specific pages on Home Depot’s website using specific anchor text–and then encourages those links to be “hidden”. Furthermore, Home Depot’s email tells the vendor that linking to Home Depot will essentially increase their website rankings in the search engines. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Link Building, Search Engine Optimization

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