Recent content by moondoggy

Fix your on page problems. Aged domains are getting a ton of Google love right now (oh hello Amazon, you've got another spot on this completely unrelated search term have you?). Micro sites are doing poorly. But there's still a lot of problems with the results. On the weekend just gone, I was...

My site had dozens of #1 rankings & tanked up to several pages (random amount). I had way too many tags. Like 800 for 80 posts. Lots of tag pages with only 1 post, creating a lot of dup content. Site is built on wordpress. All tags were indexed and in my sitemap.xml. Worked for a long time for...

Penguin has nothing to do with links. On page only. So if your site was hit by Penguin, clean up things like duplicate content/titles on your website. Keep building links as you were. Like others have said, stopping your linking is a big flag. I'm in a better position to analyse than most coz...

You can't chanutp - Tweet Attacks shut down when twitter sued it.

I'd be careful with Tweetadder. I used to use it with great results (over 100k followers), but Twitter is suing them for $750,000 for violation of TOS. Twitter's keeping a close eye on it and who knows whether tweetadder will be forced to hand over a list of active users. Pending the result of...

Glad, it's sorted, but if you did find you had lots of exact searches, log out of google, clear the cache, do the search then add &pws=0 to the end of the google url. This further turns off personalisation and gives you a cleaner result

I'm starting to see a recovery. Only had 1 site hit. Was too agressive with the tags, which were all indexed. Many were on just 1 post. Have deleted them And submitted url removal requests in GWT. Very careful not to do any linking so I wouldn't pollute the test. Signs are looking up so far...

Did you have any other sites to compare against whether, long term, it was the 301 that fixed the rankings or the drop in keyword density? One thought is your new site conformed with post-Penguin and the 301s essentially forced a clearing of the cache, giving you the rank your new setup...

I remember reading on one of google's blogs that they are getting much better at understanding images: is it a person? Word? What's the context? It's similar to how some of the captcha solving tools work. Up to you whether it's worth the risk. Short answer - yes they'll be able to tell it's the...

I wouldn't worry about counting OBLs. If it's a good post and you have a worthwhile comment to add to the discussion, then who cares how many other comments are there? If neither, then why are you manually commenting instead of using scrapebox?

I often do web 2.0 and major article directories for 1st tier. 2nd tier being social bookmarks, blog comments & profile links. To beef it up you might do another round of web2.0 linking to tier 1 with more of what I just called tier 2. So you end up with social bookmarks, comments & profiles...

It needs to comply with the CAN-SPAM Act. Any commercial emails that don't comply are technically spam. See business.ftc.gov/documents/bus61-can-spam-act-compliance-guide-business - worth reading & understanding. Note there's no requirement that they opt in, just that it's obvious how to opt...

More than likely on-site. That's what Penguin targeted. Of all the sites I work with, only one got bodyslammed. That one had some on page spam signals. Linkbuilding for all was the same. All the other sites gained rankings. Just do a bit at a time to the site & see if you can figure out what...

Penguin was an on page update. There was a Panda refresh a few days before, which has confused a lot of ppl. I know it might sound like semantics, but if your site didn't tank til Tuesday it's probably more to do with on-page factors, rather than your links. Important distinction.

I've done similar linking on a bunch of sites (blog network supported by No Hands SEO & BMD). Out of 6 sites that I've finished rank reports, 5 went up, 1 went down. The 1 that went down has a plugin that turns search phrases into tags. Results in 30 or more tags, most have only the one post...