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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...

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 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...

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...

Since there have been several months past now since the Panda update, I would assume that is enough time for a consensus to form about the effectiveness of spinning articles for SEO. Granted have the equation is where you post the articles since a lot of article sites got hit with Panda and...

I've got a 6-year old site with 2700+ backlinks. I'm seeing Title and Meta Description updates appear on Google within 12 hours typically. I'm seeing new pages appear in 3-6 days. On a page where the title didn't have any keywords, then I changed it to have the keywords, I see the title...

I have noticed that an unrelated domain name is now pointing to my site. The DNS is pointing the domain to my IP. I'm not sure if it is a mistake, or if someone has done it on purpose. It would seem to me this could make Google look at it as duplicate content, or a doorway site and...

Let me first say that I don't consider myself a Black Hat SEO. We are using IP Cloaking on a couple sites where the home pages are not FLASH, but they are graphically intensive nevertheless. The content we are serving to Google using IP-Delivery is 95% the same as if you were a user looking at...