Wow, I now have heard it all. Seriously. There are reasons why website owners will not remove a link from their low quality website to your website when asked, but this one really takes the cake. For a little background, I routinely help website owners clean up the links to their website as part of my Google Penguin Recovery services. Not only do I identify low quality and toxic links to websites, I help remove those links from the web. [Read more…]
Google Hosts Low Quality Article Directory with Links They Want Us to Remove
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…]
Shady Search Engine Optimization Firms Still Hurting SEO Industry
I am still amazed that shady search engine optimization firms are still relying on what I would call shady marketing techniques like sending UCE Spam (UCE stands for Unsolicited Commercial Email), trying to get more search engine optimization business. It is the companies like the ones detailed below that send emails like the one below that is truly hurting the search engine optimization industry as a whole.
Fresh Content Is Crucial To SEO
One of the biggest things that anyone needs to know about search engine optimisation, or SEO, is that fresh content is still king. Letting a website sit dormant for months or even weeks can cause it to fall behind. It can quickly become outdated. The search results ranking will drop, potentially falling out of the top 10 search results or first page, which is where the vast majority of people look for their keyword search query. In order to use local SEO in Brisbane to your advance in order to stay on those top pages, site owners have to focus on fresh, high quality content as much as possible. [Read more…]
Linked from These Directories? Be Prepared To Pay for Removal
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.
If you have a link on one of these directories, then expect to pay $25 for each link to be removed: [Read more…]
Get Your Site on Google’s Front Page Search
Have you received an email (usually an unsolicited email) from someone offering to get your site on Google’s front page? Well, I get these all the time, from companies that claim that they can help a website’s search engine rankings. The problem, though, is that even with all of the Google algorithm updates, including Google Penguin and Google Panda, the SEO scammers (as I’d like to call them) are still sending out these emails, touting their SEO services: [Read more…]