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Top reasons for Google Penalty
Backlinks Large parts of the SEO industry still focus on link building or getting links to improve search engine visibility especially on Google. There is nothing wrong with that. Of course there are limits. There are now so many pitfalls to link building that you have to be very exact when it comes to following the Google Webmaster Guidelines. 5000 links for $19 – dubious offers from spam emails offering you 5000 links for $19 are too good to be true. They lead almost directly to a penalty. Paid links on high PR sites – while you can get away with paid links in many cases, it’s quite easy to get noticed when you buy links on so-called high PR sites where the toolbar PageRank is 6 and above. There are only a … Read entire article »
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Search engine SPAM detector
What does this tool do? This tool analyzes a web page, searching for characteristics that search engines could consider spam. If you don’t know what “search engine spamming” means or if you want to know how this tool works, you can read the Spam detector FAQ. What type of tricks does it find? The tool tries to detect three main methods: keyword stuffing, doorway farms and hidden text. Any trick based on Javascript or on CSS positioning/layering will not be detected (for now). Search engine spam detection is very difficult to accomplish and this tool can’t recognize all the existing tricks/methods; it isn’t perfect and it sometimes fails. Why did you create this tool? To persuade webmasters and SEO to think: … Read entire article »
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Find broken links on web sites
Find broken links on web sites * Description * Download * Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) * The story of Xenu’s Link Sleuth (TM) * Bug List * Future feature List * Credits * Links for further reading * Trademarks Description Xenu’s Link Sleuth (TM) checks Web sites for broken links. Link verification is done on “normal” links, images, frames, plug-ins, backgrounds, local image maps, style sheets, scripts and java applets. It displays a continously updated list of URLs which you can sort by different criteria. A report can be produced at any time. Additional features: Simple, no-frills user-interface Can re-check broken links (useful for temporary network errors) Simple report format, can also be e-mailed Executable file smaller than 1MB Supports SSL websites (“https:// “) Partial testing of ftp and gopher sites Detects and reports redirected URLs Site Map Download By downloading you are acknowledging … Read entire article »
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How I reversed my Google ranking penalty
Yesterday, through a large increase in visitor numbers to my website, I discovered that my Google penalty has been lifted. In this article, I’m going to tell you why I was penalised by Google, what I did to have the penalty removed, and how you can avoid a similar penalty for your website / blog. Last month, I asked for advice regarding a huge drop in my Googlesearch rankings. For around six months prior to the drop, I ranked at #1 when searching for my name, David Airey. The penalty imposed on my website dropped this position from #1 to around #70 and I also lost rankings for a host of graphic design-related terms, making me a lot less findable. What you thought had happened to my website There was A LOT of … Read entire article »
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10 Ways to Diagnose a Google Penalty
An interesting thread on WebmasterWorld forums discusses ways to diagnose a possible Google penalty. If you suspect your site / URL is being filtered out / penalized (e.g. you have lost some Google rankings), try doing the following: Dig your internal traffic analytics for traffic drops or bad trends; Perform [site:yoursite.com] search in Google to see if Google reports same number of indexed URLs; Check if Google Webmaster Tools report any problems; Take a look if Google toolbar PR has changed (graybar PR mightbe a signal of penalty); Check your site ranking for a “domain-name” search (without theTLD). If such a query puts you in the fifties, it’s almost (!) guaranteed to be a penalty. Check if Google has blacklisted your site as unsafe for browsing (type http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=mysite.com with your domain at the end). Check the source code for any injected links … Read entire article »
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