The Disavow Tool Works! Real Sites, Real Recoveries!

October 25, 2012

See update here  - More Insights on the Disavow and Recovery   It seems like the only thing I have posted about this year is penalties, link removals and reconsideration requests!! Well at long last I can finally put a post together that is a little more positive; in short I have some good news! [...]

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Finally! Google Launches a Link Disavow Tool

October 16, 2012

Well at long last Mr Cutts announces the anticipated link disavow tool at Pubcon: This gives webmasters the opportunity to upload a text file through webmaster tools, identifying any toxic links they believe point to their website, it does however come with a few warnings. – Just because you think a link is toxic doesn’t [...]

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Panda, Penguin, Link Building, Penalties and more…

September 21, 2012

I have been involved in a number of seminars/conferences over the past couple of months, mainly discussing Google’s recent algorithm changes and link building strategy in light of events. Below are my slides from BrightonSEO, where I spent 3 – 4 hours with a group of 40 discussing the above and working through common issues [...]

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Alternatives to Paying Cash for Links and Strengthening Editorial Barriers

August 23, 2012

Notice in the title of this post that I mention ‘cash’, ultimately if you’re looking to generate links to your site you’re going to pay for it, whether it is time, expertise, giveaways or cash. There is a ton of information floating around the industry about innovative ways to drive links to your site; however, [...]

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Link Building Still Works, Only The Mechanics Have Changed.

June 12, 2012

Finally mustered up enough time to put together a post, it’s been a busy few months thanks to Mr Cutts and his team of spam hunters . So much has changed, so many tactics have been left by the way side, link networks finally pulled and sites are being punished for unnatural links, whether they [...]

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Link Building in Competitive Industries – ionSearch Presentation.

April 18, 2012

I delivered a presentation earlier today focussed on the recent link algo changes in Google and the unnatural link messages that are being sent out. I ran through some attributes of a natural profile and how we can develop processes to compliment natural link building. A lot of this has been published on the blog [...]

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The End of ‘Easy SEO’

March 25, 2012

You may or may not have seen this message in your webmaster tools account recently, what is it for? What are you planning to do about it? Are you going to get a penalty? The truth is no one knows 100% what the sudden increase in messages relates to, however there are plenty of conversations [...]

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