published by Hannah in Back Links | Link Strategies | SEO | SEO Mistakes | SEO Tips
What would you do if you suddenly get a massive amount of inbound links and find out its all spam?
If you know anything about SEO you know that we all loooove inbound links however we don’t want a whole slew of irrelevant links from who knows where. Of course if you are into paid links and invested in buying links then you wouldn’t be sad but we all know that there’s the danger of being flagged by Google because, as I have posted earlier, they frown on link schemes. So I ask again what will you do if this happens to you?
A SEOmoz member, Calamier, recently had to holler for help because this is exactly what happened to him. From 4000+ links his inbound link numbers soared to 24000+. Upon investigation of the inbound links he found out that they came from “a huge list of irrelevant sites” with every topic imaginable including “casinos, kosher meat, viagra, guns, link directories, and Nigerian SEO companies.”
In my opinion he did a good job of washing his hands by posting about his problem in YOUmoz since he can at least point to it and say he was horrified in case he gets penalised for the links. According to the helpful commenters though what he can do (and what we can do in case it happens to us) include:
- submitting a report to Google Webmasters Tools
- posting a thread at Webmasters Central
- create a redirect string using the browser referrer string to alert search bots of potential malicious activity - The problem with this is that it will be time consuming to do this for thousands of links!
- email the webmasters of referring sites one by one - Again not scalable.
- ask Rand for help - Rand actually offered to help in case the site got penalised! Nice. I guess this is one of the reasons why it pays to be a SEOmoz premium member and be an active YOUmoz contributor. ^_^
It was the people’s consensus that it is more likely that the site will not be penalised especially if it has no previous history of any black hat methods employed.
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published by Hannah in News | SEO Tools
Ok I’m not that dense. I’ve known that Feedburner was bought by Google mid last year. I am after all a Feedburner user and loooove Feedburner. So what am I talking about?
Recently Feedburner announced that finally they are “movin’ on up”, meaning they’re starting the Feedburner-Google Account integration. Yipee yay! Do not too get too [...]
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Continue reading “Burning to Move In: FeedBurner Goes Google”
published by Gary in Back Links | Link Strategies | SEO
We all know that the age of a domain affects search ranking. Because of this many websites have resorted in buying old domain names in order to benefit from the aging. This is not a bad thing at all especially if the domain bought is relevant to the site’s theme and the new site being [...]
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Continue reading “The Domain Age Factor in Links”
published by Hannah in News | SEO Tools
Yahoo’s at it again. Just a few days ago they announced that they’re implementing changes to their crawling, indexing and ranking algorithms so don’t be surprised if you see some changes in your Yahoo results rank. Hopefully the changes will be good for us. ^_^
On Google’s side things seem to be a bit quiet except [...]
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published by Hannah in SEO | SEO Mistakes
Although the post is really old I just ran into it last last night and I really really felt the need to share it. Independent sources came up with a list of top ten worst company domain names ever and here’s a sample of what they came up with…
Experts Exchange - www.expertsexchange.com - Used to [...]
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published by Hannah in News | SEO | SEO Help Needed | SEO Services
The results of the online survey on SEO and Paid Search conducted by Neutralize (*\*) last February and March UK companies are increasingly outsourcing their SEO and paid search campaigns to agencies. Obviously this means more business for everyone in SEO!
Although I haven’t read the full UK Search Engine Marketing Report 2008 the facts I [...]
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published by Gary in News | SEO
It’s not yet too late to oppose Jason Gambert’s application to trademark the word “SEO”. It’s a pretty long story and if you haven’t read about this silliness that can have a huge effect on all of us you can read Sarah’s really long post about it. It details everything from the original filing down [...]
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Continue reading “Keep SEO Safe from Jason Gambert”
published by Hannah in Link Strategies | Organic SEO | Rep. Management | SEO
Since we’ve been on the topic of gifts and freebies let’s talk about giving away links. One of the things we all love to get are inbound links but do you pass the link love?
Linking to other sites is actually very good practice and has multiple benefits affecting differing aspects such as the site’s SEO, [...]
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Continue reading “Link Love: Why I Love Giving It Away”
published by Hannah in Firefox | Phoenixrealm | SEO | SEO Basics | SEO Tools
Been trying out Aaron Wall’s new Firefox extension, Rank Checker, and it works really well. If you want to have no problems making it work though let me remind you of the difference between a URL and a domain.
We all know that the URL of a website is its HTTP address. For us that would [...]
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Continue reading “Rank Checker Review and a Short Lesson on URLs and Domains”
published by Hannah in General | SEO Services
Gary and a few of our readers have mentioned the problem with “partially educated” SEO clients. If you have read one of my first posts here on PhoenixRealm you would know that I too have had run-ins with clients that knew/have heard something of SEO which has made them set on their ways but know [...]
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Continue reading “SEO Doctors: Educating our Clients”
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