Like many of you, we woke up today with the release of Moz’s Links Beta and we immediately sat down to play. I was tipped off surreptitiously by Russ Jones at Moz when he asked the tech slack channel if they could take screenshots of link data in Moz because “there was a bug [he] [Continue reading]
In the post-Penguin era of search engine optimization, backlinks are still the backbone of a well-ranked website. Many webmasters have had their encounters with bad SEO agencies, freelancers, and subsequent penalizations from Google. Some webmasters have dealt with amoral competitors that will purchase bad backlinks to their website with a variety of anchor text. Regardless of [Continue reading]
The Penguin algorithm has been part of the lives of online marketers since early 2012 when the first iteration was unleashed and decimated an industry rife with easily repeatable spam. When Google updated Penguin for the first time, it hit many webmasters who utilized unnatural inbound linking as their primary strategy for ranking well in organic [Continue reading]
Over the past several years I’ve been involved in the Internet marketing community, one thing has really gotten under my skin: comment spam. Almost every back-link analysis I’ve performed has comment links in one form or another. Many of these links can be quite old, as comment sections keep track of the day / time the comment was posted. [Continue reading]
Acquisition of a penalty can be a daunting task to address. You have been told by your SEO that the work they have done up to this point abides by the Google Quality Guidelines, and now that trust is broken. More than likely you have severed ties with your SEO company / employee, and now [Continue reading]
Two great passions in my life are baseball and SEO. Having played baseball throughout college and now leading link development at Hive Digital, there are countless similarities when it comes to preparation and execution of strategy. So naturally, I was immediately drawn to the idea that link building in the world of SEO is now [Continue reading]
How do I Submit a Reconsideration Request? What follows is our step-by-step guide on the proper process by which to upload a reconsideration request to your Google Webmaster Tools account. It may seem like a daunting task at first, however, this is one of the easiest steps in the manual penalization process. Please note, if you do not [Continue reading]
Ethical Analysis of Link Removal Ransoms If you have performed link removal outreach, you have received an email asking for payment to remove the link, directory listing, content from a blog / article site, etc. The real question here is: Should I pay a webmaster to remove a link to my site? The short [Continue reading]
How Do I Submit a Disavow File? If you have encountered an unnatural links penalty, it is necessary that you upload a disavow file to your Google Webmaster Tools account prior to submitting a reconsideration request. Even if you have not been hit with a manual penalization from Google, you may be the victim of [Continue reading]
We’ve just added a free Anchor Text Over Optimization Tool to the site for our Remove’em bad backlink removal tool. This tool will quickly tell you if you have over-optimized links pointing at your site that could cause you to get a Google penalty. What Is Anchor Text Over-Optimization? Anchor text is the text that [Continue reading]
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