It goes without saying that Google penalties aren’t going away any time soon. If you’re interested in what to do if you or one of your clients has a Google penalty, take a look through our library of penalty removal articles to find out what to do.
If you receive a Pure Spam message in Google Search Console, it means Google has detected evidence of ‘black-hat’ SEO techniques on your website.This can include a variety of old SEO techniques that are no longer considered ethical or acceptable, for example: Publishing auto-generated content that reads like gibberish. Publishing large numbers of small, low-quality […]
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The SEO landscape is changing all the time as new websites launch, new pages are published, and old ones deleted.Google changes its ranking algorithms on a daily basis, so your position in the search results is always in a state of flux.But what happens if your rank drops suddenly and significantly? You may have fallen […]
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After a long absence it seems that Google has returned to hammer home some new manual penalties for web spam over the last few weeks. As a technical SEO consultant that specialises in penalty removals, I’ve had numerous SMEs and well-known businesses knock on the door this month already, inquiring about supporting the removal of manual action penalties. […]
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In recent weeks, the much anticipated Penguin 4.0 update has stolen the industry spotlight, and perhaps rightly so, given the impact we’ve seen with the new real time algorithm. But what if your site hasn’t recovered in this new post-Penguin world? Links are only a piece in the SEO jigsaw and while the importance of the […]
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The following is specifically written for business owners, marketing managers/directors, and others who engage with SEO in some form or another, but who don’t actually do the work themselves. It could be that you have an internal SEO team, and/or external suppliers such as SEO companies, or consultants. Ignoring Google’s warnings could destroy your business’s […]
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Sometimes unfortunately it is not just economically viable to clean up a domain, and therefore flipping/switching domains (starting again) may be the best option. This may be either due to budgets, time scales, or the type and scale of links which need removing.
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