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Google’s Matt Cutts Regrets Not Acting Faster On Paid Links & Content Farms
In Google’s Matt Cutts latest video, he answers a question I personally asked about what he regrets, what decision he regrets making in...
Five Days Later, It Looks Like Google Has Penalized Web Design Library For Selling Links
We all saw this one coming: Web Design Library, the website that was using Twitter to renew paid links last week, appears to have earned a...
Selling Links To A Big Brand? Here’s Why You Don’t Tweet About It
Here’s a lesson in how not to sell links. As Search Engine Roundtable pointed out this morning, someone named “Vince” from...
Matt Cutts Video: How Google Determines What’s A Paid Link
Google head of search spam Matt Cutts released a pretty detailed video discussing the Google webspam team’s criteria for determining...
“Text Link Ads” Was Latest Hit By Google’s Actions Against Link Sellers
On May 15th, we reported that Google targeted yet another link selling network that resulted in several thousand penalties. Google’s head...
Video: Google’s Matt Cutts On Advertorials & Webmaster Guidelines
Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, posted a new video today on YouTube clarifying Google’s stance on Advertorials and...
Google Zaps Another Link Network, ‘Several Thousand’ Link Sellers Hit
What a week it’s been where Google and SEO are concerned. The company, via Matt Cutts, has issued several warnings about things to come...
Link Seller Linking To You? Google Says You Won’t Benefit From It.
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, posted a 90-second video on what happens if a site that is selling links also links to your...
Will Google Penalize Chromebooks, Google Analytics, AdWords & Google+ For Using Advertorials?
A day after warning publishers against advertorials, will Google’s search team now have to penalize parts of its own company for running...
Infographic: When Link Building Turns Into A Linkpocalypse
If you want to succeed with gaining search traffic through SEO, building links is one of the most important ranking factors that can help you....
Will 2013 Bring A Paid Link Resurgence?
With Google rolling out frequent changes, the last couple of years have been alternately amazingly fun and freakishly terrifying for anyone who...
What The Link Value Economy Hath Wrought
It’s often said that paid links have created a false economy. As someone who has admittedly purchased links and contributed to that, I...
Automatic Algorithms Are Fundamentally Changing The Shape of SEO
If search engines -- such as Yandex in Russia -- are generating their search query algorithms automatically using "machine learning," does that...