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Google: That Mozilla Penalty Only Impacted One Page Out Of 22 Million
We reported yesterday that Google penalized Mozilla over user generated content. Today we learn that it was a really really small penalty that only impacted a single page out of Mozilla’s ~22 million...
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Q&A With Google’s Matt Cutts On What To Do If You Get A Manual Penalty
What to do if Google sends you a penalty notice and you can’t figure out exactly what it’s for? Turn to Google’s webmaster help forum, says the head of Google’s web spam team, Matt Cutts. If you’re...
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The Definitive Guide to Recovery from the Unnatural Link Penalty
The unnatural link penalty was one of the most significant changes Google made last year. In January and February of 2012, they sent out roughly 700,000 messages to webmasters via Webmaster tools. This...
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Wired Revisits Story Of Federal Sting & $500M Penalty Over Google’s Pharmacy Ads
Wired is telling the story of David Whitaker, a federal prisoner that helped the U.S. government catch Google breaking the law by allowing and helping foreign pharmacies sell drugs via Google AdWords....
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Google Notifies Sprint Of Spam Penalty; Seeks Advice In Google Help Forums
The latest large brand to be hit with a user generated content spam penalty notification is Sprint, the large U.S. wireless communications company. Similar to Mozilla’s penalty and BBC’s penalty,...
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Recovering from an Algorithmic Penalty Using 301 Redirects: A Personal...
We know it. Some of us may have seen it. The dreaded Google Unnatural Link Warning. Either as an SEO, a business, or perhaps just a personal blogger, you may fall to your knees and cry when you receive...
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Matt Cutts: Google Webmaster Penalty Emails to Include Examples of Bad Links...
We’re here live at SMX Advanced in Seattle where Matt Cutts is on stage being interviewed. Matt Cutts said that Google Webmaster Penalty emails will start to Include Examples of Bad Links in them....
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Google: Site Speed Penalty Coming To Mobile Web Sites
Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, announced at SMX Advanced that Google is likely going to roll out a version of the site speed ranking factor for mobile sites. Back in 2010, Google said site...
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Google’s Cutts Talks Structured Data Beta, Mobile Site Speed Need, Penalty...
Last night at SMX Advanced, Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts was on stage to answer questions about Google search and webmaster topics with Danny Sullivan. We covered the session in live blog...
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Have The Same Ad-To-Organic Ratio As Google Search? Then You Might Be Safe...
At SMX Advanced tonight, Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts explained that if Google’s search results pages were run through the top heavy algorithm it would not be hurt by that algorithm. So if...
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How to Protect your Site and Recover from a Google Penguin Penalty by...
A month after Penguin 2.0 was released, the dust is settling and most people are eager to know: What exactly is Penguin 2.0 filtering? How does Penguin 2.0 differ from Penguin 1.0? What can I do to...
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What I Learnt From Revoking A Google Manual Penalty
It’s every site owner’s worst nightmare. You wake up one morning to a Google Webmaster tool warning message notifying you of the detection of unnatural links aka. “the Google manual penalty”. If this...
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New Blog Post on Google Manual Penalty for SEO Announced by JM Internet …– PR...
Business 2 Community New Blog Post on Google Manual Penalty for SEO Announced by JM Internet …PR Web (press release)The JM Internet Group, a top provider of online SEO training, is proud to announce...
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Removing a 16 Month Google Penalty – There is Hope Yet by @matthewbarby
Disclaimer: Due to privacy agreements I cannot share the exact name of the client that I’m going to be discussing within the post. Ever since the first Penguin update on April 24th 2012, the way we...
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Penalty Slap on Strong Brand, A Case Study in Negative SEO by @pincock
For years webmasters & SEO’s have tried to raise awareness with the Google spam team about their lingering concerns for potential Negative SEO via link bombing, duplicate content, etc. Matt Cutts...
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Penalty Slap on Strong Brand, A Case Study in Negative SEO – Search Engine...
Penalty Slap on Strong Brand, A Case Study in Negative SEOSearch Engine JournalFor years webmasters & SEO's have tried to raise awareness with the Google spam team about their lingering concerns...
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Image Mismatch: The Latest Google Webmaster Tools Manual Action Penalty
Google has a new manual action penalty within their guidelines named image mismatch. Image mismatch is when the images on your website do not match what is shown in the Google search results. Google...
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Google Webmaster Tools Adds Manual Action Penalty: Image Mismatch
Reports of a new manual action alert in Google Webmaster Tools called “image mismatch” have been surfacing this week. Google explains how image mismatch could be happening, and what to do if you see...
View ArticleAvoiding the Duplicate Content Penalty using Savvy Article Submission Strategies
Article submission is an important aspect of article marketing, and if you know how to avoid the duplicate content penalty when you write articles then you have a very powerful tool at your disposal....
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Google’s Rap Genius Penalty Results In Huge Traffic Declines For The Lyrics Site
Before Christmas, Rap Genius was outed for link schemes and then on Christmas, Google penalized the site for those link schemes. The penalty is still on and a couple metrics sites show huge drops in...
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