Entries Published On December, 2018
It’s Alive! How to Check Your Live Backlinks (and Resurrect Some Dead Ones)
You spend a lot of time acquiring precious backlinks. But those backlinks don’t always stick around. The site you got a link from might no longer be active. (A lot of newbie blogs don’t make it). Perhaps one of your competitors stole your backlinks. (Those horrible people.) Whatever the case, a backlink earned does not exist in …
Doorway Pages and SEO: How to Safely Remove Doorway Pages and Avoid a Google Penalty
Hidden doors can be exciting. And discovering a key that unlocks a mysterious door is even more thrilling. But that’s not always true when we come across a website with URLs that act as hidden doors. Those hidden doors, also known as doorway pages, stop us in our tracks—much like a mysterious key would. But …
The Complete Guide to Spam Score (Plus 3 Valuable Ways to Use It)
Spam backlinks are like cancer to SEO. Sure, one spam backlink by itself will do little harm. But once multiple spam backlinks spread to your site, the results can be disastrous for your rankings. In fact, spam links are one of the greatest contributors to losses in rankings, penalization and deindexing by Google. So it’s …
Should I Buy Backlinks? The Final Word
Buying backlinks has probably come up on your radar before. Maybe you heard about it and immediately hid it away in a secret drawer, never to be brought up again… Or maybe you’ve been wondering if it’s actually feasible. Almost anyone who does SEO has thought about buying paid links at one time or another. …
SEO Meta Tags: Do’s and Don’ts to Get More Clicks and Traffic
More high-quality traffic. The holy grail of SEO, am I right? We all want some, and I’m here to help you get it—just by using your meta tags. Yes, I said meta tags. This is a fundamental SEO technique that still works, and it doesn’t rely on spam or anything like that. It’s quite simple, really: …