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Google announced on Google+ that you can now easily filter out traffic from bots and spiders from showing up and being tracked in your analytics. Google said, "we’re adding bot and spider filtering" because many of their users said it is "hard to identify the real traffic that comes t...
Is what we're seeing truly a Sandbox though? Are sites that are supposedly Sandboxed EVER getting out? I'm wondering if perhaps Google has just gotten better at instantly discounting unnatural links. In the past the black/grey hats could start a new site and blast links at it or point...
Seems like goodroi's thread is more about readiness for some sort of manual or algorithm penalty than actually budgeting for performing seo. I guess his whole thread assumes that money management is important after a site starts ranking, and I think ranking is the big problem many now...
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Search Engine Roundtable Stories: Would Google Release A Penguin Update In The Summer? It's Been 10 Months! It has been exactly 297 days si...
301 redirects count as a nested layer of linking... Redirecting your old URLs to new is a permanent reduction of Page Rank. That is one long term negative impact of moving... Every move you make with your site increases the number of URLs you have to manage redirects for going forward...
Soooo....if you read through the post on the Google Forums it turns out that not only did he file a disavow but he also did an entire site redesign...with different urls. That'll definitely affect your rankings. Plus, the new site has something funky going on where he has javascript r...
Barry, Thank you for bringing attention to this! The lack of a Penguin refresh is a major story in and of itself, and I'm glad to see that you are raising awareness of this problem. I'm deeply concerned by the information relayed by Josh Bachynski in the comments below. It sounds like...
Thanks for the update and for sharing my forum thread Barry. To me this is major - may be not in broad scope of Google search, but to anyone focused on local this is MAJOR and a ton of back end stuff has changed too. Pete noted the MozCast results being slightly off. That's in part du...
