Google is a club all of its own.  And just like in any club, there are rules to follow if you want to be included. Violate those rules, and you’ll get a penalty. If one or more actions on your website (or toward it) violate Google’s Webmaster Guidelines for indexable content, it can trigger a …

Spam link-based penalization became a thing of the past after Google’s Penguin 4.0 update. Which meant that disavowing links for Penguin-based offenses was no longer a requirement. A lot of people took that to mean that disavowing altogether was no longer needed. But that’s just not accurate. Google’s John Mueller even states that disavowing… “definitely makes …

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