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Google Just Took Out Thousands Of Linksellers

Google Just Took Out Thousands Of Linksellers

By Chris Crum May 15, 2013 | 2 Comments

Earlier this week, Google’s Matt Cutts ran down a bunch of new stuff Google’s web spam team is working on. Cutts tweeted an extension of that today, noting that Google will continue to tackle link networks, and that in fact, …

Cutts On Dumping Lots Of Pages On The Web At Once Cutts On Dumping Lots Of Pages On The Web At Once
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Google posted a new Webmaster Help video today. This time, Matt Cutts addresses a question posed by fellow Googler John Mueller, who asks: A newspaper company wants to add an archive with 200,000 pages. Should they add it all at …

Matt Cutts On The SEO Mistakes You're Making Matt Cutts On The SEO Mistakes You're Making
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In the latest Webmaster Help video from Google, Matt Cutts discusses the biggest mistakes that a lot of webmasters are making when it comes to SEO. The top mistake, he says, is not making your site crawlable, which includes not …

Google Talks Keeping "No Results" Pages Out Of Index Google Talks Keeping "No Results" Pages Out Of Index
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Google’s Matt Cutts takes on an interesting question in today’s Webmaster Help video: What is being done to detect and remove results from larger sites when they don’t have unique content that is relevant to a query (e.g. yelp.com results …

Matt Cutts On Penguin And Internal Links Matt Cutts On Penguin And Internal Links
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In the latest Webmaster Help video from Google, Matt Cutts responds to a question about Penguin’s effect on internal links that use the same anchor text. The exact question is: Do internal website links with exact match keyword anchor text …

Matt Cutts Thinks You Should Consider Giving Up News Matt Cutts Thinks You Should Consider Giving Up News
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An interesting Twitter exchange between Googlers Matt Cutts and Tim Bray: Follow @mattcutts Matt Cutts @mattcutts A great article about why you should consider giving up news: http://t.co/p32BilNFxc   Follow @timbray Tim Bray @timbray @mattcutts Except for, the world is …

Can You Buy A Spammy Domain, Clean It Up, And Rank? Can You Buy A Spammy Domain, Clean It Up, And Rank?
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In the latest Webmaster Help video from Google, Matt Cutts takes on an interesting topic. Can you buy a domain that has been penalized by Google for spam, clean it up and recover rankings? Well, it depends, and Cutts explains …

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Matt Cutts On Web Hosts That Host Spam Matt Cutts On Web Hosts That Host Spam
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In the latest Google Webmaster Help video, Matt Cutts discusses whether or not a site that is hosted by a hosting service that also hosts spam, has to worry about a negative impact on rankings. The answer is pretty much …

Why Google Changes Your Rankings Over Time Why Google Changes Your Rankings Over Time
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There has probably been at least one time when you noticed that one of your pages used to rank for a certain search query, but then later dropped for some unexplained reason. Matt Cutts, in the latest Google Webmaster Help …

Matt Cutts Answers A Good Question About Paid Links Matt Cutts Answers A Good Question About Paid Links
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The latest Webmaster Help video is once again about the topic of paid links, but this time it’s about the effects of a paid link penalty on an innocent site that happened to be linked to by a site that …

Why Google Might Rank Sites With Bad Links Highly Why Google Might Rank Sites With Bad Links Highly
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Today’s Webmaster Help video from Google doesn’t appear to be an April Fools’ joke. It’s just Matt Cutts responding to a question like normal. The question at hand is probably something a lot of people have wondered: I’ve seen multiple …

Matt Cutts On Google In 10 Years [Brain Interface] Matt Cutts On Google In 10 Years [Brain Interface]
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Google put out a new Webmaster Help video today, though this one doesn’t really do much to help webmasters. It’s simply Matt Cutt responding to the question: Where do you see Google search 10 years down the road? An interesting …

Google's Cutts Talks About Blocking JavaScript Google's Cutts Talks About Blocking JavaScript

For the second day in a row, Matt Cutts answers a question from a fellow Googler in a Webmaster Help video. This one comes from Webmaster Trends analyst John Mueller: “Googlebot keeps crawling my JavaScript and thinking that text in …

Google Launches New Search Opt-Out Feature Google Launches New Search Opt-Out Feature
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Google has launched a new way for sites to opt out of having their content show up in Google Shopping, Advisor, Flights, Hotels, and Google+ Local search. Matt Cutts announced the feature in a very brief post on the Google …

Getting Google Rankings Back After Site Downtime Getting Google Rankings Back After Site Downtime
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The latest Google Webmaster Help video deals with getting your site’s rankings back after experiencing some downtime. Google’s Matt Cutts will often provides answers to his own questions in these videos. This time the question comes from Googler Pierre Far, …

Google: We Still Need Text To Index Your Content Google: We Still Need Text To Index Your Content
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Google’s latest Webmaster Help video discusses Google’s need for text in indexing content. Matt Cutts responds to a question about how important text is in getting Google to understand their site. The user has a site that is mostly made …

Google Mistakes On Paid Links Mean Worse Results Google Mistakes On Paid Links Mean Worse Results
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There has been a lot of talk about Google and paid links in the news lately, so it’s only fitting that they’re the topic of the latest Webmaster Help video from the company. In this one, Matt Cutts responds to …