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Google Hits Rap Genius With A Spam Penalty Resulting in 80% Traffic Loss by...
Lyrics site Rap Genius was penalized by Google just before Christmas after being outed for a black-hat link building scheme. Rap Genius was looking for bloggers to publish links with keyword rich...
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Surprise SEO hit for Rap Genius: Do content links cross penalty lines? – Brafton
Brafton Surprise SEO hit for Rap Genius: Do content links cross penalty lines?BraftonWhen reporting about Google's quality standards, it's easy to assume there is a clear delineation between what's...
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Rap Genius Back In Google After 10 Day Penalty, Ranks For Its Name But What...
Lyrics site Rap Genius says that is is no longer penalized within Google after taking action to correct “unnatural links” that it helped create. The site was hit with a penalty for 10 days, which meant...
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Rap Genius Back On First Page Of Google After 10-Day Penalty by @mattsouthern
After being outed for unnatural link scheme, lyrics site Rap Genius was hit with a manual penalty by Google that buried their pages deep into the search results listings. To quickly recap, Rap Genius...
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Rap Genius No SEO Genius: Lyric Site Fails to Recover Traffic After Google...
Despite returning to Google’s index after getting caught for unnatural linking, there still seems to be a significant loss in overall traffic for Rap Genius, showing they definitely aren’t back up to...
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Expedia & Google: No Comment From Both About Possible Expedia Penalty
Expedia appears to have been hit by a Google penalty related to unnatural links. So what do Google and Expedia have to say about the situation? No comment. As covered yesterday, the visibility of...
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3 Steps to Take When You Suspect an Algorithmic Penalty From Google by...
The dreaded Google penalty. It can strike you out of the blue quickly, and is very unpleasant to deal with. In the face of plummeting web traffic, you have to pinpoint the cause and then take steps to...
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Link Network Buzzea Calls Google Penalty ‘Abusive’
It’s been a few weeks since Google’s Matt Cutts publicly announced the demise of the link networks (remember Backlinks.com and Anglo Rank?). But Cutts revealed via Twitter the latest recipient of a...
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Google’s Latest Manual Action Penalty: Spammy Structured Markup
Google has recently began sending a new manual action spam notification to webmasters for “spammy structured markup” also known as rich snippet spam. This comes after Google dropped 15% of the rich...
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The Definitive Guide to Recovering From a Manual Search Penalty by...
A search penalty is a fearsome thing. It’s the grown-up equivalent of “come to the principal’s office,” but the consequences are far worse. Once you’ve been hit with a manual penalty from Google, what...
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Suspected Paid-Link Penalty Hasn’t Hit Expedia Bottom Line — Yet
Yesterday online travel giant Expedia announced Q4 2013 and full year results. The company “beat the street,” reporting strong room night and revenue growth across all geographies. So far a suspected...
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Google Unnatural Links Manual Penalty: A Recovery Guide
Desperately seeking recovery from a Google penalty for unnatural links? This step-by-step guide will explain all the necessary things you must do as you begin the difficult and lengthy process of...
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Hiding From That Google Penalty? It May Find You At Your New Home
Did you know that even if you try to run away from your Google penalty, it might end up finding you anyway? In a recent Google Webmaster Hangout, hosted by Google’s John Mueller, John said that even if...
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How to Deal With an Unnatural Links Penalty on a Budget by @HathawayP
Many website, businesses, and employees have been affected by Google’s recent clamp down on spammy and manipulative link practices. It is becoming an all too common problem for small business, and we...
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Ann Smarty of MyBlogGuest Responds To Google Penalty by @mattsouthern
Matt Cutts broke the news via Twitter early this morning that Google’s webspam team had penalized a “large guest blog network.” Today we took action on a large guest blog network. A reminder about the...
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Google’s Matt Cutts: Determining If Your Site Ranking Is Result Of A Penalty...
Today’s video from Google’s head of webspam Matt Cutts tackles the question, “How can you tell if your site is suffering from an algorithmic penalty, or you are simply being outgunned by better...
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Nearly A Year Later, Google’s Penalty Notices Remain Confusing
Nearly a year after Google’s Matt Cutts told us penalty notifications will get clearer, including more actual examples of what a problem is, it seems as if the notifications have gotten harder to...
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Not Ranking in Google: Is a Manual Penalty, Algorithmic Change, or Content to...
Is it possible to tell if your website has been impacted by one particular Google algorithm? That will be extremely tricky, according to Google’s Matt Cutts. In 2012 alone, Google rolled out 665...
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How to Remove a Penalty for Unnatural Outbound Links
It can be quite distressing when you see a notification of a manual action in your Google webmaster tools account. But by taking prompt action and working hard to resolve the issue you will soon find...
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Guest Blog Network PostJoint Confirms Google Penalty
Google’s Matt Cutts confirmed via Twitter that action was taken against guest blog network PostJoint. This is the second major guest blog network that Google has penalized this year, following the...
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