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If you are cloaking a page not with different content on the same domain, but with a 301 redirecting real users to another site, if Google discovers the cloaked site, will they just ban that domain or will a penalty be enacted on the target site(s) that are being linked to? I guess this would...

This is hilarious. A forum called BLACK HAT SEO discussing whether Negative SEO is moral/legal or not. So it's okay to take a site selling replica Rolex's HIGHER so it ranks right next to the real Rolex, but its not okay to push Rolex LOWER? It's okay to break these Google rules, but not these...

What's the name of this forum again? BLACK HAT SEO? And there are people here saying manipulating a site's SERPS to be higher (in most cases than it should be) is any more "morally" correct than manipulating another site lower (negative)? Huh? Is this a matter of it's okay to break these...

It's bringing significant traffic to the target site and ranking 4 positions higher than the target site. So the cloaked 301 redirect is working great. If I turn the cloaking off, then users will get this 8-year old piece of crap looking site but it would pass a manual review. The problem is...

Oops... sorry for dupe post... admin can delete this one (back button took me to new post not edit page) I've got a website www dor {keywords} dot com. This was a cloaked doorway site use IP cloaking. It redirects to the target site if not a search spider. In order to avoid Google penalty we...

I've got a website www dot {keywords} dot com. This was a cloaked doorway site use IP cloaking. It redirects to the target site if not a search spider. In order to avoid Google penalty we had disabled the cloaking for Google to be safe. The domain fell off Google results and was buried for...

I recently saw about a 4-5 rank drop (from 3 or 4 to 8 or 9) on a few major keywords we rank for. Never seen these keywords drop like this in the past 5 years, even through Panda. We use a variety of White Hat SEO techniques including outsourcing some link building and the service we've used for...

I realize SERPs can dance around all the time but on one site that has always been solidly consistent SERPS for a few of our most competitive terms I recently saw about a 4-5 rank drop (from 3 or 4 to 8 or 9). Never seen these keywords drop like this in the past 5 years, even through Panda. We...

I realize SERPs can dance around all the time but on one site that has always been solidly consistent SERPS for a few of our most competitive terms I recently saw about a 4-5 rank drop (from 3 or 4 to 8 or 9). Never seen these keywords drop like this in the past 5 years, even through Panda. We...

This is really about Adwords PPC but it relates to avoiding Duplicate Content Penalties which is more of an SEO issue. I've got sn Adwords Campaigns that have keywords with low quality scores (3's and 4's). The Ad and the Landing Page are well optimized. The problem is that they weren't...

It seems you can discover Long Tail Keywords using the Google Keyword Tool, or using Phrase and Broad Match keyword and examining the Matching Search Terms report. With Broad Match you can move the performing keywords into exact match, and the non-performing into negative match. (Typically it...

Some services out there are offering "Search Retargeting" This is essentially targeting based on keywords used in search queries where or not the user actually came to your website or not (referred to as "Site Retargeting") The major service I've found that does it is Simpli.fi but they want a...

And to add to that, my brand may be associated with a business that has nothing to do with the current website in the future.

I've got a new website. The domain was registered 2 months ago. The domain was chosen since it has the keyword phrase I initially targeted in the right order without hyphens. Let's say the keywords are "pretty good phrase" Let's call it. prettygoodphease I bought 100 directory links for it...

So if you see the title update, then Google is also showing the new rank (if any) ? There is no delay between title change and rank change?