In yesterday’s Google Webmaster Central office hours, the question came up about how some sites seem to get back into Google’s search index faster than other sites, in light of Thumbtack’s link penalty and subsequent removal of the penalty a week later. John Mueller actually went quite in depth into it, talking both about why […]
Google Reconsideration Tips: Submit Helpful Documentation
It is day # 5 – and the final day – in the Google Webmaster Help Reconsideration Request series of tips. It has long been known that webmasters should include additional information with reconsideration requests, whether it is to show you have taken steps to get links removed or perhaps actual evidence of a negative […]
Google Reconsideration Tips: Identify Hacked Content
It is day # 4 in the Google Webmaster Help Reconsideration Request series of tips this week. Sometimes a page may look clean to you but hackers often inject content that only search engines can easily see. ‘Fetch as Googlebot’ shows how your page looks to Googlebot (our website crawler) so use it to identify […]
Google Reconsideration Tips: Remove Inorganic Backlinks
Another day and another Google Webmaster Help Reconsideration Request Tip in their series of tips this week. Day # 3 brings us “remove inorganic backlinks”. Day 3 of #GoogleRecon — For a reconsideration request to be successful, a significant percentage of inorganic links should be removed from the website. If you can get a backlink […]
Google Reconsideration Tips: Understanding the Manual Action
Google is running daily tips this week to help webmasters dealing with having to file a reconsideration request. The first day of Google’s Webmaster Tips on reconsideration requests is short but sweet, dealing with helping webmasters figure out which manual action is taken and the resources Google offers to help. We provide many resources to […]