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Google publishes new manual actions aimed at Google News and Discover penalties

Google has not yet announced the addition of these new manual actions but they are all visible in the help...

Barry Schwartz | Feb 8, 2021 at 8:40 am ET

Google algorithms vs Google penalties, explained by an ex-Googler

This former Google quality analyst explains the difference between Google's algorithms, manual actions, quality and...

Pedro Dias | Dec 23, 2020 at 12:01 pm ET

Google manual actions bug is now resolved

Google's Daniel Waisberg confirmed this bug is resolved and said it only "affected only a tiny number of...

Barry Schwartz | Nov 23, 2020 at 8:44 am ET

 

Google updated guidelines to say spam reports are not for manual actions

Google only uses spam reports to improve its spam prevention...

Barry Schwartz | Jul 3, 2020 at 9:25 am ET

SEMRush drops paid guest blogging service after Google policy scrutiny

Google said selling paid links on blogs is against its webmaster guidelines and that Google can take action against those using the...

Barry Schwartz | Jun 4, 2020 at 9:01 am ET

Google handles reconsideration requests in batches

John Mueller said that the Google team goes through reconsideration requests in batches, so sometimes it can feel like there is a...

Barry Schwartz | Jan 8, 2020 at 9:33 am ET

SMX Overtime: Your questions answered about Google penalties and their impact on websites

SMX London attendees asked SEO expert Fili Wiese a wide-ranging number of questions about penalties, indexing, crawling and...

Fili Wiese | Sep 10, 2019 at 2:49 pm ET

Why Google dropped Bing Discover pages from its index

No matter how big you are, if you go against Google's guidelines it can end up biting you....

Barry Schwartz | Jul 17, 2019 at 8:24 am ET

Google and Bing talk web spam and penalties

How Bing and Google do algorithm updates to improve their search results and how to deal with...

Barry Schwartz | Jun 6, 2019 at 2:01 pm ET

Google algorithms are not Google penalties

They both determine how websites rank but it's important to understand the differences before they can be influenced in a meaningful...

Kaspar Szymanski | Jun 4, 2019 at 12:16 pm ET

Some April Google Search Console data lost, manual actions disappeared

Most of the reports are missing data during the de-indexing bug...

Barry Schwartz | May 1, 2019 at 9:02 am ET

Ask an SMXpert: Tips for dealing with (and avoiding) Google penalties

SEO expert Fili Wiese explains some nuances of Google penalties in disavowing links, dealing with past penalties and domain issues for small...

Wendy Almeida | Dec 24, 2018 at 8:00 am ET

The future of negative SEO, Part 6

Now that you know how to identify, prevent, stop and recover from a Negative SEO attack, here's a look toward possible future threats you should...

Joe Sinkwitz | Oct 11, 2018 at 2:46 pm ET

SEO PowerSuite Review: features, analysis, results

SEO software is what makes automation of SEO processes possible. However, the choice is so vast today that it is hard to find a winning set of...

Sponsored Content: SEO PowerSuite | Sep 18, 2018 at 7:30 am ET

After Google manual actions expire, algorithms may handle some of those site penalties

Google has confirmed again that manual actions, human-driven search penalties, can expire over...

Barry Schwartz | Sep 10, 2018 at 9:05 am ET

How to recover from a negative SEO attack – Part 5

As our series continues, we look at the cleanup process and show how to recover content, links and user signals after being hit by negative...

Joe Sinkwitz | Sep 7, 2018 at 9:53 am ET

Parsing pages: Is it better to update or remove thin content?

There are three basic strategies for dealing with thin content: update, redirect or noindex. Contributor Kristopher Jones looks at each and says...

Kristopher Jones | Jun 25, 2018 at 3:37 pm ET

5 things to check if your traffic suddenly drops

No one’s immune to traffic drops, and the causes may be easy to overlook. Still, to avoid barking up the wrong tree, gather the evidence...

Sponsored Content: SEO PowerSuite | Jun 19, 2018 at 7:30 am ET

Google sent 45M notifications through Search Console, 6M of which were search spam-related

Google sent about 3 million fewer manual actions this past year than the previous...

Barry Schwartz | Jun 11, 2018 at 9:08 am ET

Ask the SMXpert: Google manual penalties explained

Have you ever gotten a manual penalty from Google? It's no fun. Contributor and SMXpert Kaspar Szymanski shares answers and insights on how to...

Debra Mastaler | May 7, 2018 at 10:42 am ET
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