Google to penalize websites with sneaky mobile redirects
Google’s Andrey Lipattsev announced in a Google Hanghout that his team is working on taking action on mobile affiliate traffic networks that bounce users from one site to the next:
Category: Unethical Black-Hat SEO
John Mueller: how Google looks for rich snippet spam
On Twitter, Google’s John Mueller was asked how Google looked for rich snippet spam. According to John Mueller, Google detects rich snippet spam through algorithms and manual spam reports: @davebuts Yes, pretty much all...
Official Google statement: repeated spam leads to stronger penalties
In a post on Google’s official blog, Google’s search quality team announced that repeated spam will lead to stronger penalties. It is very important that you only use search engine optimization methods that play...
Google: content with CSS display:none has less value
There are a lot of legitimate reasons to use ‘display:none’ in the CSS of a web page. However, you should be aware that Google gives hidden content less weight. Google’s Gary Illyes has explained...
Google’s John Mueller: spam can bite your website years later
In a video on YouTube, Google’s John Mueller said that a website might be penalized years after they spammed Google: “I totally understand. It looks weird when you look at it in the press...
Link disinfection: remove bad backlinks that point to your site
Getting rid of bad backlinks that point to your website can be a time-consuming and complicated task. That’s why we developed the Link Disinfection tool. If your website rankings have been damaged by an...
Official: Google to launch doorway pages ranking penalty
When was the last time you encountered a doorway page in Google’s search results? Although this doesn’t happen very often, Google seems to think that doorway pages are still an issue. In the official...
Official: updated Google algorithms do not treat previously penalized sites differently
Some webmasters think that it was more difficult to get high rankings for websites that had a Google penalty in the past. In a webmasters hangout, Google’s John Mueller said that this was not...
Google: we might not announce the next Penguin update
In a Google Hangout, Google’s John Mueller said that the next Penguin update might not be announced: “We are generally moving to a little bit of a faster [Google Penguin] update cycle there. But...
Beyond bad backlinks: how competitors can hurt your rankings
Negative SEO has become a problem. While most webmasters know that other websites can be damaged by adding low quality links to these sites, there are more things that your competitors can do to...
Google: why your website did not recover from the Penguin update
Google released a new version of the Penguin algorithm about a month ago. Websites that were penalized by a previous Penguin update should have recovered with the new update if they removed spammy links...
Google Penguin 3.0: how to get rid of bad backlinks
Google’s recent Penguin 3.0 update has confirmed that Google is serious about low quality backlinks. If your website has paid backlinks, or automatically created backlinks, chances are that your site will be penalized by...
