Back in the old days, it used to be that getting as many links to your site, through whatever means possible, was your best bet for SEO. However, nefarious backlinking strategies will now get you punished and result in your site plummeting in the rankings. With Google’s Webmaster Guidelines in hand, here are our favorite …
Guest Blogging Opportunities with Us
Affordable SEO, Tampa based SEO and internet marketing company has opened our guest blog sites for guest blogging a couple of month and would be happy to consider your blog post article for one of our blog sites. An article needs to meet our requirements outlined below to be accepted for posting on our sites. …
What is User-Generated Spam and How Does It Relate to SEO?
When you’re trying to optimize a website, much of your focus is on the content you create. That is, you spend you’re time thinking about how to rank well for specific keywords or making sure your site doesn’t have any duplicate content. This is all fine and well but it leaves a huge gap in …
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Webmaster Tools, SEO, and Penalty Link Examples
Today we’re going to discuss the latest video from chief Google engineer, Matt Cutts, who offers up regular tips and tricks to webmasters. The topic for today is penalty link examples. When you manage a website, it’s important to have an understanding of your linking strategy. This means you need to know what sites link …
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The manual spam action can be revoked by Google
We have another confirmation that with right amount of effort the manual spam action taken by Google for unnatural/spam links can be revoked. It took us a significant amount of time spent on reviewing our client’s website for unnatural linking, contacting many webmasters for removing unnatural links and utilizing Webmaster disavow tool for links/domain we …
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Hidden Content and Content Freshness: SEO Impacts
We’re going to talk about some information given out by SEO expert and Google engineer, Matt Cutts today. As you know, he’s the go-to source for everything having to do with webspam and site optimization, so without further adieu, let’s discuss some questions and answers. First up, a user wanted to know how Google treats …
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How to Find Out Bad Links Directed to Your Website
When building a website and using SEO to optimize it, many webmasters run into a problem: bad links. When a site has a lot of links from less than legitimate sites pointing to it, this can dramatically reduce that site’s rank. While this is done to weed out sites using nefarious backlinking strategies, it’s not …
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Site Down Time, Search Syntax, and Voice Search Effects on SEO
It’s that time of the week, once again, to cover some of the questions posed to Google engineer, Matt Cutts, and the answers he gave to budding SEO experts just like yourself. So sit back, relax, and learn something! First up, a user wanted to know if their site was down for a day, if …
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How to Attribute the Proper Source for Content with SEO
When you have a blog and you’re writing up original content (as you should be), you might wonder how to attribute any sources you may use. That is, how do you let people know what resources you used to write the article in the first place? Recently, a webmaster got in touch with Google engineer, …
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Thinking About Webspam Content Violations with SEO
The Webmaster Guidelines put out by Google help people who build websites learn what to do and what not to do in terms of designing and creating their homes on the web. Basically, there are some things you can do that might penalize you in the eyes of the search engine. Webspam content violations are …
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