On Twitter, Google’s Gary Illyes said that they can also ignore links from Forbes and Entrepreneur.com if these links are artificial: First, I doubt they can actually pull that off. Second, we're pretty good...
Some weeks ago, Google’s John Mueller said that Google makes a difference between unnatural links and spammy links. Gary Illyes has confirmed on Twitter that Google ignores unnatural links as long as it does...
In a post on Google’s webmaster central blog, Google reminded webmasters that they can get in trouble if they syndicate articles just to get links. Lately we’ve seen an increase in spammy links contained...
On Twitter, Google’s John Mueller said that links from spammy sites can be ignored as long as these links aren’t unnatural: @scottzi07791910 @methode If they're not unnatural links, just happen to be from a...
Google’s John Mueller and Google’s Gary Illyes both confirmed that Google started to roll out the penalty for mobile websites that use intrusive interstitials. What are intrusive interstitials? Google does not like the following...
In a webmaster hangout, a person who works in Google’s rich snippet team said that Google takes action on rich snippet spam: “I’ve seen a lot of [rich snippet] spam reports and in my...
Do you want to get banned on Google? There are several things that you can do to make sure that Google thinks that your website as spam. If you don’t want to get banned,...
Last month, Google released the long-awaited fourth version of the Penguin algorithm. The Penguin algorithm deals with artificial backlinks and their influence on the rankings of their website. What is new in Penguin 4...
In a Google Hangout, Google’s John Mueller said that you usually do not get your rankings back after a penalty: “In general, we will try to take that into account. When we see that...
Most people know that Google penalizes websites that have unnatural links from other sites. Last week, many webmasters were surprised because their websites were penalized by Google because of unnatural links to other sites....
In a recent Google+ hangout, Google’s John Mueller said that a website can lose its trust from Google so that it does not pass PageRank value anymore: “With regards to PageRank, I think the...
Google’s recently published search quality rating guidelines revealed Google’s definition of high quality web pages and low quality web pages. If you want to avoid a penalty, it is also important to know Google’s...
