Weekly SEO news: 9 September 2014 |
Welcome to
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latest issue of the Search Engine Facts newsletter. Google's recent algorithm updates have shown that your website can get in major trouble if your website has the wrong type of backlinks. How do you judge the quality of a website? What is a good website and from which web pages should you get links?
In the news: Google removes sites from the search
results if they are down for too long, Google seems to test domain
clustering on the search result pages, it's not easy to recover from a
Penguin penalty, and more. Table of contents:
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1. After Google's updates: how to judge the quality of a link |
When you build links to your website, you want lasting results. It does not make sense to invest your time in search engine optimization methods that are just a flash-in-the-pan. Google's recent algorithm updates have shown that your website can get in major trouble if your website has the wrong type of backlinks. How do you judge the quality of a website? What is a good website and from which web pages should you get links? 1. All automatic backlinks are bad
2. Google PageRank and other metrics are not
important when you build links 3. You will get lasting results if you use your common sense
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2. Search engine news and articles of the week |
Google's John Mueller: if a site is down for weeks,
we'll remove itIn a discussion on Twitter, Google's John Mueller said that Google will remove a website from the search results if it is down for longer than a few days: Discussion: changes in Google's domain clustering? In an online discussion, webmasters write about the new domain clustering that they see on Google: "It’s hard to remember a Google whose only mission was to make sure that if a Google user typed “Egg McMuffin” into the colorful but ultimately spartan Google.com homepage, that user got links to the best and most relevant Egg McMuffin content on the Web. [...]
"Today you’ll see a new and improved sitelinks search box. When shown, it will make it easier for users to reach specific content on your site, directly through your own site-search pages. [...] Google: you need an update to recover from a Penguin penalty "Google’s Penguin update penalized websites that had unnatural links. Even if you removed all of the bad backlinks, you still have to wait for Google’s next algorithm update. Otherwise, your website won’t recover.Search engine newslets
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