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Finding “Seed Lists” that Lead You To Amazing Expired Domains For Your PBN

In this post I’m going to write about how you can go about mining good seed lists as starting points form where you can launch your crawlers to uncover those hidden expired domain gems that others missed out on.

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How To Find Expired Domains For Your PBN – Insider Secrets Revealed

by Vishal Lamba

There are a variety of tools and methods that you can use for “mining” Expired Domains. Over the years, I have perfected a couple of methods that work very well, and I’d love to share them with you.

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How Google Conned The World of SEOs

by Vishal Lamba

On Friday 23rd September 2016 Google officially announced that Penguin 4.0 was being rolled out and with that the Penguin Algorithm had now been integrated into their core algorithm.

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Penguin 4 and what it means for SEOs

by Vishal Lamba

On September 28th, Gary Illyes announced that sites that were hit by Penguin 3.0 will start seeing recoveries in their rankings with Penguin 4.0 as the links would no longer carry a negative score with them.

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The Death of RankBrain? The SEOs Strike Back : Episode 1

by Vishal Lamba

Google has been tracking all our activity on its site and as we went about visiting websites… so it could secretly build its big data sets that is being fed to RankBrain to power the search algorithm.

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SEO in 2016 and Beyond – Updated Google Ranking Factors

by Vishal Lamba

Google Search is moving heavily towards Artificial Intelligence and deep (machine) learning. This post covers all the ranking factors including Rank Brain.

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Link Removal Requests to Webmasters – Sample Templates

by Vishal Lamba

A few link removal templates that you can use to send out to webmasters to request them to comply and delete your toxic links on their sites.

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Got slapped? Here’s How To Deal with A Google Slap

by Vishal Lamba

This report will primarily discuss the Penguin Algorithm Updates and how you can fix your site if it has been hit by the Penguin Algorithm.

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Google Turning Up the Heat Even More with Penguin 2.1

by Vishal Lamba

Its been a couple of weeks now since Google released the Penguin 2.1 update.

Although Google has claimed that only 1% of search results have been effected, it looks like a ton of people have been burnt yet again.

A Link Building Mind Map – In A World Run by Penguins and Pandas

by Vishal Lamba

A mind map with a chock-full of link building tips in the brave new world after Penguin and Panda were released by Google.

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Google Takes Aim At Press Releases

by Vishal Lamba

Google has now updated its Link Schemes documents in the guidelines saying that it now considers optimized links inside content distributed across other sites as in Articles or Press Releases to be unnatural.

Guest Blogging – Now Being Targeted

by Vishal Lamba

It appears that as of August 2013, Google is now going to target websites that are indulging in mass guest posts – IF the posts and/or the sites being posted to are of low quality and are not adding much value to readers. There is now clear evidence that Google wants you to NoFollow your links in the content you post on other sites as Guests Posts.

A Birds Eye View of the Link Inspection and Classification Process

by Vishal Lamba

Before, we look at things in detail, here is a brief look at what goes into a typical link clean up process…

The Unofficial Google Recovery Process Blueprint

by Vishal Lamba

If your site got hit, you might want to look at the blueprint below to understand what lies ahead for you if you want to get your site back into the Google index. This is not going to be easy, but this is a good start.

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Link Clean Up and Removal Process Overview

by Vishal Lamba

Here’s an high level overview of the link clean up and removal process.

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Low Quality Toxic Links that could Trigger an “Unnatural Links” Penalty

by Vishal Lamba

In this post I am going to define what Google sees as low quality links that are “toxic”… and how, if they are detected, in “excessive amounts” in your backlink profile – they can result in getting you the famous “unnatural links” penalty or warning in your Webmaster Tools area, such as the one shown in the image below.

Google Penalty Evaluation & Recovery Plan – Case Study #1

by Vishal Lamba

This is a simple case study that will evaluate an inner page of a site that was hit by the Penguin 2.0 update for just a couple of keywords – based on what was observed inside organic search data in Google Analytics.

Anchor Link Ratios Revisited

by Vishal Lamba

I regularly get new clients who come to me with slapped sites and are totally panicking because they don’t know what went wrong.

Many of these clients worked with bad SEO companies low quality link builders who have not bothered to keep up to date with the Penguin updates and what Google wants to see more of moving forward.

Anchor Links - How to Remove Bad backlinks

First Things First – Fix Your Anchor Links, Baby

by Vishal Lamba

If you suspect your site got hit by the Penguin update that just rolled out, the first thing you need to do is STOP WHINING because it won’t help you.

SEO in A New World Ruled by Penguins and Pandas

by Vishal Lamba

Today, I’m going to discuss various factors that you need to look at to ensure that you comply with the past, present and future Google Algorithm Updates – that seem to be getting rolled out with higher frequency.

Negative SEO – A Myth or Reality?

by Vishal Lamba

Before the Penguin update, Google would handle links it considered to be webspam to pass down zero link juice value to the pages they linked to.

Has The Penguin Gone Crazy?

by Vishal Lamba

Penguin 1.0 goes crazy leaving SEO forums in chaos.

If you visited online marketing forums, right after Penguin 1.0 was released – you would have seen several threads that went into pages and pages of innocent people who got slapped by the crazy Penguin.

It Don’t Matter if You’re Black or White

by Vishal Lamba

The Penguin 1 and 2 updates have hit sites that have used black hat or white hat tactics.

Many quality sites that have been playing it safe and by the Google rules have been caught in the crossfire.

Google Penguin Update – The Story So Far

by Vishal Lamba

24th April 2012 has been marked as the day SEO changed forever.

On this day, Google rolled out the initial version of its Penguin update in an attempt to rampage against so called “web spam”.

Brace Thyself! The Army of Penguins is Here

by Vishal Lamba

Google expects us to abandon other business growth opportunities and try to spend time to figure out what needs to be fixed in our backlink profiles every time they change things around.

Penguin 2.0 Update – Initial Observations and Notes

by Vishal Lamba

Penguin 2.0 was released on 22^nd May 2013 and affected 2.3% of English queries.

Here are some initial observations and notes on Penguin 2.0

A Sample Reconsideration Request Message to Google

by Vishal Lamba

Hello Google Search Quality Team…

Classification of the Quality of Various Backlinks

by Vishal Lamba

Below a quick classification of some link types and their quality in the post penguin-panda world. Having excessive thin directory links even if from trusted sites could damage your “trust”.

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