Google: Penalties
Google updated guidelines to say spam reports are not for manual actions
Google only uses spam reports to improve its spam prevention...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
Some April Google Search Console data lost, manual actions disappeared
Most of the reports are missing data during the de-indexing bug...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Google may issue manual actions over job schema on expired job listings
You'd better remove job listings from your website shortly after you fill those positions, or Google may penalize your...
Google warns webmasters not to use misleading event markup
Google can penalize your website if you use event markup in a misleading...
Private blog networks: A great way to get your site penalized
Columnist Kevin Rowe explains what private blog networks (PBNs) are, how to identify them, and why you should steer...