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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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 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.
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.
Before, we look at things in detail, here is a brief look at what goes into a typical link clean up process…
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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Here’s an high level overview of the link clean up and removal process.
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