‘Aaron’s Law’ Promises To Reduce Hacker Penalties
As the Internet activist, inventor and alleged criminal Aaron Swartz was memorialized in a Chicago-land synagogue yesterday, on the other side of the country a new bill was proposed aimed at reducing...
View ArticleContent Marketing Optimisation > How to Avoid Future Penalties
Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Don’t be a Content Marketing Ostrich > How to Avoid Future Penalties. 2013 is going to be a BIG year for content marketing. The...
View ArticleGoogle Dishes Out PageRank Penalties To UK Newspaper Web Sites For Selling Links
Google has downgraded the Toolbar PageRank scores for several dozen UK operated newspapers and news sites today. It is believed the reason Google has downgraded their PageRank scores is because they...
View ArticleGoogle Outruns Real Penalties From Street View Lawsuit
Google has agreed to settle a case brought by 38 U.S. states to challenge its Street View project, acknowledging once again that it had scooped up user data and other private information when...
View ArticleHow Google’s Disavow Links Tool Can Remove Penalties
Can using Google’s link disavow tool help remove penalties? Yes, the company says. But when it comes to manual penalties, disavowing links alone isn’t enough. With algorithmic penalties, there may be a...
View Article5 Ways to Protect your Website from Google SEO Penalties
Everyone in SEO is talking about it…a new Penguin update is on the way and it is rumored that it will make last April’s ruthless Penguin update look like child’s play. People are running scared,...
View Article5 Ways to Protect your Website from Google SEO Penalties – Search Engine Journal
5 Ways to Protect your Website from Google SEO PenaltiesSearch Engine JournalEveryone in SEO is talking about it…a new Penguin update is on the way and it is rumored that it will make last April's...
View ArticleGerman Privacy Regulator Fines Google Over Street View Data Collection, Calls...
A fine of 145,000 EUR (roughly $189,000) is trivial for Google. But that’s close to the maximum fine allowed by German law ($150,000 EUR). The fine is being imposed on Google for violations of German...
View ArticleEscape from Google Manual Penalties
There is something weird happening when I watch the movie “Escape from New York” by John Carpenter (1981): an impulse of rebellion that rises any time against injustices. Sometimes I feel alone...
View ArticlePure Spam: What Are Google Penalties & What to Do to Recover
Manual spam penalties of any type are difficult to recover from – especially if they are severe. These suggestions will give you places you can start to look, and things to do, to help lift 10 possible...
View Article12 Ways to Optimize Press Releases & Avoid Google Penalties
Google now calls links in press releases “unnatural” and is mandating nofollowing them. Even though Google took away the anchor text links in press releases (and guest posts and articles), there are...
View ArticleDemystifying Link Disavowals, Penalties & More
Findings from a recent Google Webmaster Hangout on Air (video) demystify link disavowals, penalties and more. Read on for the official word from John Mueller, Webmaster Trends Analyst from Google and...
View ArticleNew “Concessions” From Google Seek To Avoid EU Antitrust Penalties
According to Reuters the European Commission (EC) says Google has submitted a new settlement proposal with “further concessions” in its bid to end the antitrust inquiry against the company. If the...
View ArticleRecovering from Penalties, Penguin, and Panda
We’ve seen tremendous upheaval in the search landscape over the last two years. Google has sent web publishers into a tailspin with Pandas, Penguins, and penalties. Here’s why your site may have been...
View ArticleBig Brands, Google, Penalties & You
If you mimic all the good things brands do well, Google will give you some of those authority and quality points. Though big brands are subject to the same rules as regular sites, here’s why they are...
View ArticleMatt Cutts Explains How To Avoid Spam Penalties From Blog Comments by...
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, answers a question about link spam in his latest video where a user writes in to ask: Google’s Webmaster Guidelines discourage forum signature links but what...
View ArticleAvoiding Penalties From Google’s Penguin Update: Interview With Russ Jones by...
As part of our SEJ interview series, Russ Jones of Virante discusses how to avoid penalties from Google’s Penguin algorithm update. After Penguin 2.1 came out, Russ’s company Virante came out with...
View ArticleIdentifying and Recovering From Google Penalties: Interview With Brian...
As part of our SEJ interview series, Brian McDowell of Conductor discusses how to recover from Google penalties. A lot of sites are getting hit with penalties lately as Google cracks down on negative...
View ArticleYour Guide to Common SEO Penalties and How to Recover From Them – Huffington...
Your Guide to Common SEO Penalties and How to Recover From ThemHuffington PostThese mistakes can be attributed to a number of different causes, but one thing is certain – if you have a penalty, you...
View ArticleMatt Cutts: Google Penalties Get More Severe for Repeat Offenders
A website that gets caught violating Google’s webmaster guidelines for the first time won’t be treated as harshly as those that have been penalized multiple times. Also: how the disavow tool can bring...
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