After years of reliance on backlinks, Matt Cutts today announced that backlinks are dead. The unannounced speech took place on a TED Fellows meeting in LA and came as a surprise for around 500 participating webmasters and SEOs. We all …
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Google Disregard Backlinks as Ranking Factors
After years of reliance on backlinks, Matt Cutts today announced that backlinks are dead. The unannounced speech took place on a TED Fellows meeting in LA and came as a surprise for around 500 participating webmasters and SEOs. We all …
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PrWeb Update Guidelines for Press Releases After Criticism
Danny Sullivan recently wrote a detailed article about some of the questionable press releases distributed through one of the leading services, PrWeb. After the criticism by Danny Sullivan, PrWeb decided to update their guidelines in order to remain their position …
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Christmas Search Trends: Top 10 Keywords 2012
Weeks before Christmas, people visit search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo more than usual to learn about various potential Christmas gifts. This important season for retail shops and eCommerce businesses can be even more successful if you know what …
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Bing Release Brief Webmaster Guidelines
Bing has now released their short and concise version of Bing Webmaster Guidelines. The content reveal some of the most important factors to consider when you should improve your ranking. What do Bing care about? Bing mention 7 different topics … Google’s new Disavow Links Tool vs Bing’s Link Removal Practice
While kids are waiting for Christmas, many webmasters have been waiting for a Google disavow links tool to handle negative SEO or backlinks which are hard to remove. Google have listened to what webmasters and search engine optimisers would
Toxic Backlinks: Do they exist?
People are talking about trusted links giving benefits to websites and untrusted backlinks giving penalties or trouble in search engines. Today we are going to discuss some of the most common forms of risky backlinks after the recent penguin and … How to Handle Negative aka Evil SEO?
After Google’s Penguin update, many webmasters have been discussing how to handle competitors sending links of poor quality towards your website. Many are also asking if it’s possible to harm competing websites by sending 1000′s of links with low trust …
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Are In-content Links Still Important?
A recent German backlink study by Link Research Tools shows that a mixed basket of incoming links are still very important. Their findings indicate in-content links might be correlated with negative search engine rankings the latest months and we’re here …
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Cemper Regains Lead as the Best Link Building Tool
After Majestic SEO latest addition of trust metrics, Cemper.com decided to add additional features helping to classify backlinks. The latest update of LinkResearchTools include both power and trust metrics, which in combination can be very useful to help decide if … 7 Obvious Types of Unnatural Links
Have you received warning signals from Google about unnatural links? In that case, there are probably good reasons your inbound links looks artificial rather than ‘genuinely earned’. In this post, SEO Specialist discusses a few of the most obvious and …
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Majestic SEO Launches Visual Trusted Link Profiles
In an attempt to differentiate themselves while providing a highly sought after feature, Majestic SEO has managed to create a useful and visual appealing functionality to measure link trust and link profiles for websites. Relevant and credible backlinks or the …
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It’s Confirmed: Site Explorer is now Shut Down
Have you been using Yahoo! Site Explorer for a few years? Sad news, the free backlink service is now finally completely shut down. It might have been a few months later than first announced, but now it’s totally gone.
Why did Google Directory shut down?
The 2nd service ever launched by Google, Google Directory, has now been shut down. Many webmasters ask why this happened and if DMOZ listings will be worth less now? Here come some conclusions from SEO Specialist. But first some background info about …
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Mass Email Link Exchange Requests
Every day, SEO Specialist get tons of link exchange requests from webmasters and SEO beginners around the world. However, we never accept ‘mass email link exchanging requests’. Instead, these requests should rather be marked as spam and you should avoid … Yahoo Site Explore Shut Down in 1 Month From Now
It’s now official that Yahoo! Site Explorer is closing down the 15th of August, a month from now. For several years, Yahoo Site Explorer has been the most popular tool to explore backlinks. Yahoo’s search blog discuss the topic of … SEO News Categories
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