Recent content by Banditoseo

I have a site which has picked up three genuine, 100% organic Forbes links. Not the crap you buy, but links from real, legitimate columnists there who, on their own, found my content useful and linked to it within a relevant article. None of them ever changed rankings, not to the page in...

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I've noticed that too. To this day, this single most valuable page I have on any site -- as measured by CPC, traffic, competition, whatever you want -- has no links of substance to it. A handful of spam sites and low-authority blogs have linked to it somewhat randomly. I've never built a single...

This is the most consistent theme I've seen from Fred: the sites were "shallow containers." Many of them contained zero ads -- but the sites plainly existed to do absolutely nothing but to pick up potential customers. They used to rank as an informational page. Now they rank just for commercial...

Content length was the only commonality I saw among the sites hit in the SERPs I watched; all of them focused on content with <500 words. But I've since seen way too many counterexamples to believe that anymore. At least from what I'm seeing, external anchor text isn't the factor, either. On...

I think this does have much bigger ripples than a minority of blackhatters on BHW bitching. The SERPs I follow with the highest traffic (and, for the last few weeks, most stable rankings) look very different today than they did last week. Some sites built on spam took a bath, but I also saw big...

Yikes. So, here's my advice: 1) Sit tight on links. Don't remove, don't add. Just sit tight. This might just be a dance. Re-evaluate in two weeks. 2) Add some relevant, non-promotional content. Don't need to go crazy. If you have a blog, blog about some related industry news. If you don't...

1. The ads theory is bullshit. I've seen sites clobbered that have never had ads and would, under a manual review, never create the impression they're just selling ads. 2. Well, shit, one of my hypotheses involved content length, which matches what I'm seeing... but that's not at all consistent...

I actually believed Google when they said Penguin is now "granular" and "real-time." I don't think it has big huge "refreshes" like it used to. I think this was a genuine change in how the algorithm functions. Still unclear what was changed. In my niche, if I had to guess I'd say they just...

Same here. No data for March 9 or March 10. In my niche, "Fred" was all about legitimate authority. The sites that survived are 2+ years old and have plentiful links from genuine high-traffic, high-authority sites, and not like the things you can buy on HuffPo or the like with chosen anchor...

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IMHO, 900 different anchors is what saved him. If he just had a couple hundred "branded" links he'd probably be doing even better. He stiffed you, make him an experiment. Do a GSA blast to him for just his best keyword. See what happens.

Not my case study, this one: https://www.blueglass.co.uk/blog/removing-disavow-file-seo-test/?blu=BCLqj2 Read it yourself. Short story, they had a domain penalized in May 2012 that they recovered in October 2013 with a disavow of 977 domains and a reconsideration. Checking the links again in...

Of course, the answer is "it depends." I'm a fan of updating "evergreen" content. I find that: google likes seeing that you are tending to the content and keeping it fresh and up to date sometimes, you can 'adjust' your content -- maybe it's more about a particular subject, maybe it's just...

Ordered silver. Confirmation ends with 07004E. Thanks!