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5 Steps To Remove The Bad Backlinks That Are Harming Your Website And Killing Your Traffic

Google Link penalty

It was 6:06 am on a Sunday morning when a Skype messaged arrived that said: “Eric HELP! It’s gone… it’s all gone! My site is gone from the index!” He was right! It was an emergency. His entire business had been de-indexed from the search engines due to a severe manual penalty and come Monday morning, the phones would not be ringing for the first time since he opened the business 8 years prior. SEO…

Google’s Panda Patent Revealed

Google Panda, released in February 2011 was one of the most important algorithms ever released by Google and now affects every single website on the internet. That’s why I’m really excited that today a patent surrounding the Panda algorithm has been granted and released to the public. The patent, released on March 25th 2014, is credited to one of Google’s lead engineers, Navneet Panda, after whom the algorithm is named and to Vladimir Ofitserov. (Credit…

How Grammar Affects Site Quality

Matt Cutts explains that you shouldn’t need to re-write your comments if they are poorly written because it shouldn’t affect the quality. First, this implies that proper grammar IS a quality indicator (So make sure that you aren’t using grammar that Google does not recognize) and second, it also means that Google can differentiate “main content” and “comments” on a page. We have long theorized that pages that receive a constant stream of comments seem…