Weekly SEO news: 11 February 2014 |
Welcome to the
latest issue of the Search Engine Facts newsletter. The new Link Disinfection tool helps you to get rid of links that can harm the rankings of your web pages on Google. It can help you a lot, if your website has been damaged by an SEO service that used shady methods to promote your website. In the news:
there's a new manual Google penalty, Google penalized a German link
network, Google is giving some webmasters three weeks to save their
Google Places listings, and more. Table of contents:
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1. The new Link
Disinfection tool: get rid of unwanted links |
The new Link Disinfection tool in SEOprofiler helps you to get rid of links that can harm the rankings of your web pages on Google. It can help you a lot, if your website has been damaged by an SEO service that used shady methods to promote your website. What exactly does the Link Disinfection tool do?Google does not like artificial links (paid links, links from automated linking schemes, links that have been created by automated tools, all other artificial links, etc.). If many of the links that point to your website are artificial, it is likely that Google will penalize your site. In this case, you will get a notification message in Google Webmaster Tools. If you have received a notification from Google, the Link Disinfection tool can help you to clean up your backlink profile. The Link Disinfection tool analyzes the backlinks that point to your website and it filters the backlinks that might be suspicious.
The Link Disinfection tool in
SEOprofiler has several advantages:
How to work with the Link
Disinfection tool
The Link Disinfection tool assigns a risk score to each link. The score ranges from 0 to 100%. The higher the risk score, the more likely it is that the link has a negative effect on the rankings of your website. A score below 65% means that the link is probably okay. A score of 65% or above means that you should check the link. Even if the Link Disinfection tool assigns a high risk score to a link, it can be that the link is still okay (although that's not likely). Do the following to clean up your backlink profile: Step 1: Check the links that are listed in the Link Disinfection tool list.Click a link in the Link Disinfection tool to visit the linking web page. If you don't want to have a link from the page, click the "Add" link to add the link as a toxic link to the link manager: Step 2: Contact the owners of the linking websites and ask them to remove the link.Toxic links are marked in red in the link manager. They also have a red beaker icon instead of the regular website favicon. The link manager can help you to get the contact information of other websites. Use the 'Contact Finder Pro™' feature to get the contact information of the linking site. Then contact the webmaster of the other site and ask them to remove the link to your page. Step 3: Submit backlinks to Google's disavow links toolSome webmasters won't remove the spammy links to your website. In addition, many spam websites don't have any contact information at all. In that case, create a disavow links file and submit it to Google. The Link Disinfection tool in SEOprofiler can create the disavow links file for you. Google's disavow links tool enables you to inform Google about backlinks that you don't want. You can use that tool if a website doesn't want to remove the harmful backlink to your site. Test the Link Disinfection tool risk-free:The Link Disinfection plan is available in the SEOprofiler Smart plan and above. Log in to your SEOprofiler account now to use the Link Disinfection tool or test the SEOprofiler Smart plan risk-free: |
2. Search engine news and articles of the week |
New manual Google penalty: spammy structured markup In
an online discussion, a webmaster reports that he received a manual
action penalty from Google due to spammy structured markup on his
website:
"Markup on some pages on this site appears to use techniques such as marking up content that is invisible to users, marking up irrelevant or misleading content, and/or other manipulative behavior that violates Google's Rich Snippet Quality guidelines." Matt Cutts: a German link network has been penalized Matt Cutts announced on Twitter that Google has penalized a German link network: "We are making some changes to Google Places for Business and Google Maps so we can continue providing people with the best experience when they’re looking for local businesses. "A partnership between the Internet portal and the online-review site will incorporate Yelp's listings and reviews of local businesses into results on Yahoo's search engine. [...] A bug in Google's URL removal tool might remove your whole site "It appears as if the url removal tool is ignoring url parameters. I have a client who was hacked, and the serps are filled with spam. They asked for my help in cleaning out the serps.Search engine newslets
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