Website Penalties

Why Link Wheels Can Dodge Google Filters and Stand the Test of Time

August 1, 2011

After watching a recent video on Shoemoney and reading a rather excellent article on SEOmoz by Justin, I felt inspired to talk about a subject that everyone seems to dance around… Link Wheels, do they work? Don’t they? How can Google filter them. Shoemoney interviewed one of the guys from Link Wheelers making some pretty [...]

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How Rogue SEO Companies Systematically Destroy Online Businesses

July 24, 2011

This isn’t something I like writing about but the fact is a lot of so called SEO companies are defrauding their clients, misleading, mis selling and flat out lying most of the time. I am not going to name the SEO company in question but you can be assured they appear in the top 5 [...]

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Was City Visitor Crushed By Panda?

July 12, 2011

After reviewing some of clients traffic this morning we came across an interesting trend. Most people in the SEO field understand how powerful links on City Visitor are but they also know how much traffic they can potentially drive, especially from local terms. Now I have no qualms with the links, they still work well [...]

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How Will The ‘Farmer’ Update Impact Your Links

March 7, 2011

All the recent commentary surrounding Google’s most recent Farmer Update has been firmly focused on what content will and won’t be in Google’s index in the coming months. Websites are already reporting drops in traffic and in indexed pages but to be honest how many pages an article site has indexed isn’t important to me, [...]

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JC Penney SEO – Lazy, Stupid and Deserved

February 16, 2011

I am sure you have read about the JC Penney Google slap at the beginning of the week, they basically spammed their category pages with irrelevant anchor spam. For those of you (like me) in the UK JC Penney are a major US Retailer turning over in excess of 17 billion dollars a year and [...]

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Why More SEO is the Only Way To Clean Up the SERP’s – Killing Links is Not the Answer

January 28, 2011

OK,this is going to be short but sweet and mostly me rambling, however try and stay with me I do have a point Right, there has been a lot of moaning around the web about the state of the SERP’s, in fact I have done a fair bit myself, mostly about the crappy results being [...]

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Google SERPS – An Absolute Disgrace, Just Ask GHD!

December 13, 2010

All my regular readers will no doubt be aware of my current issues with Google and the results they are bringing up at the moment. In my opinion the results have rarely been as polluted as they are right now, across the board keyword stuffing, automated links, comment spam and black hat redirects have taken [...]

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