If you were on the receiving end of a manual action warning for unnatural outbound links this weekend, if your strategy to fix the problem was to nofollow every link on the site, you may want to rethink that strategy for a number of reasons. This is also something I brought up in my initial […]
Archives for April 12, 2016
Outbound Link Manual Actions Related to Links in Paid Reviews
It seems that my speculation that the unnatural outbound link manual actions sent over the weekend were related to Google’s recent warning to bloggers about using followed links for paid reviews is accurate. Many, if not all, of the targeted sites are blogs and it is becoming apparent that they seem to have compensated reviews […]
Google Featured Snippets Expand to 10 European Countries & Languages
SEO just got a lot more interesting for those in the EU as Google has brought featured snippets to 10 European countries and languages. This means that the featured snippet could be the visual #1 organic result on pages where the search query triggers a featured snippet in the search results. The ten new countries/languages […]
Google Now Blocking Sites With Deceptive Download & Install Buttons
Is your site using fake download buttons or attempts to install fake versions of popular software updates? If so, Google will now completely block searchers from accessing your site via their “red screen of death” that prevents access to the site and also details the issues Google found. Here is how a site will now […]