Unnatural links penalties were known long time ago, even though Google oficially said it’s hard to harm any website with backlinks. In my opinion backlinks are the last thing that should have a negative impact on our rankings… but since Google has different approach to...
Author: Marta Gryszko
During one of the last-year meetings with John Mueller, it was clarified which links are followed by Google, and which are ignored. Below is the scheme presented during the hangout along with a short summary.
Below you can find the list of most popular Google updates in 2013. You can also check the list of updates in 2011 and 2012.
For the last few weeks I’ve been working on an ebook about Google penalties. I skipped bans and focused on how to diagnose the reason for major drops in rankings in Google depending on whether it was an algorithmic or manual spam action. Then I...
Google estimates the value of the website by looking at its backlinks, as well as its content… but let’s focus on BL this time. The most valuable websites are those that were given a high grade by Google Search Quality Raters. Thus we have some...
Most of us should now what the first link counts rule means. If the page A has more that 1 link to page B, Google counts only the first one and only its anchor text influences the rankings of page B. But do you know...
Can links from noindexed pages harm your website?
posted by: Marta Gryszko
February 26, 2013
I’d like to share an interesting case with you. It resulted from a stupid mistake and I was a bit surprised when I saw this: