By: Pete Morris
NIce to finally read a level headed article about this!This all rings true in my case. I had 2 sites hit, both of which were built before I had any idea about SEO, and both optimised according to...
View ArticleBy: Carlos Fernandes
Dan,Great article. You mentioned though you are “not convinced that inbound link spam is a factor”.But in their statement they said :“Tweaks to handling of anchor text. [launch codename "PC"] This...
View ArticleBy: Pete Morris
Something just occured to me. I’m using breadcrumbs at the top of each post – my WordPress theme links back to the Category page with the Category name as anchor text. It’s there to make navigation...
View ArticleBy: Dan Thies
Carlos,Almost everything they say in these monthly updates can be interpreted however you like.They could say those exact words if they had turned off a classifier that called some links spam based...
View ArticleBy: Dan Thies
Probably not, Pete, but it depends on what you’re doing. We’ve seen some pretty crazy cases.One blog had over 100 categories, all variations of a handful of keywords they were targeting. Each category...
View ArticleBy: Pete Morris
Thanks, Dan – sounds like the breadcrumbs on my site are the “normal” case, and they only go one category deep. There are no sub-categories, and each category is a completely different keyword, so I...
View ArticleBy: Craig S. Kiessling
From what I’ve been reading it seems like so many people are up in a storm over Google’s recent updates. Yet it also seems that the only ones who need to worry are the ones who’ve been engaging in...
View ArticleBy: Leigh
Dan, I use wordpress for my blog, and I’ve seen out there articles discussing plugins that add hidden text and/or links to the code. Just from looking at the code on my blog I find it difficult to work...
View ArticleBy: Dan Thies
The easiest thing to do, Leigh – examine a text only version of some representative pages from the site. Best to look at Google’s cached version in case they’re cloaking. With WordPress, representative...
View ArticleBy: Leigh
Thanks Dan. So, I’ve gone and tried this and I can’t see any links on the cached, text only version that don’t appear on the normal version. However, there are plugins that display on the normal...
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