It might seem obvious: you do not have a good website just because it doesn’t have a manual penalty. Google’s John Mueller confirmed this on Twitter. A webmaster thought that the link profile of...
If it is very unlikely to get a natural link from a particular website, Google will ignore links that come from these websites. For example, Google ignores links that come from theglobe.net and you...
Does the click-depth of a page has an impact on the performance of a website in Google’s search results? What can you do to ensure that your web pages aren’t buried too deep on...
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that you do not have to worry about negative SEO. He said that Google is good at ignoring weird and spammy links: FWIW looking at the site, I...
A webmaster asked on Google whether diminishing traffic of a link lowered the value of that backlink in the eyes of Google. He also asked if he should disavow these links. No to both...
Does it matter if your website suddenly gets 200 links on a single day? Is the rate of link acquisition a ranking factor or a spam signal? Google’s John Mueller answered these questions in...
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that you only have to use Google’s disavow links tool if you actively built spammy links. He answered the question of a webmaster who asked whether he should...
Google’s John Mueller said in a webmaster hangout on YouTube that some links can become less important over time. The reason for that is that the linking web pages can become less important. “[Links...
Google’s John Mueller said on Reddit that HTML sitemaps aren’t useful for SEO. Websites should be crawlable anyway. If visitors and search engines cannot find all pages of your website through the regular navigational...
Google’s John Mueller explained on Twitter that embedded images from other sites do not count as links to these sites. You also do not have to worry about unnatural links if a shady website...
Dr. Marie Haynes has written a long blog post with the title “Does disavowing links work in 2019? Here are some case studies.” She comes to the conclusion that disavowing links still works: “We...
Last week, Google introduced two new link attributes: ‘ugc’ for user generated content and ‘sponsored’ for paid links. The Link Influencer tool in SEOprofiler now support these link attributes. What is the Link Influencer...
