With the latest chit chat that Google is going to release the next version of Google Penguin soon, I think it is a good time to remember how you can easily detect unnatural links in your sites’ profile. This detection technique can to be used for any site, even if it did not receive a penalty or unnatural link warning. It is a good technique that you can use to understand and manage the risk that you might be exposed to when the next unnatural link update comes. Lovely site BitsofLace  [...]

We had a "full-house" Webinar on Friday (all 100 seats were occupied). As promised to everyone in the webinar here is the recording for to digest. Main Topics What are Unnatural Links? How do I spot them? How do I recover from an Unnatural Links Penalty? Quick Overview of the recent Interflora Penalty. "Unnatural Link" Sites Analyzed - Case Studies     SmartLipo - Medical Surgery Niche     Allesovergokken - Online Gambling Niche Netherlands     Webhostingmadness - We [...]

Approximately six months ago we started the implementation of what is probably the most powerful, beautiful and easiest way to visualize a site’s link profile. The name of this new cutting-edge feature is: Visual Link Explorer - Cutting-Edge Link Graphs Made Simple This is the easiest, yet advanced, visualization that allows you to comprehend the ever-growing complexity of a site’s link profile. No other SEO tool has implemented automatic extraction, creation and navigation of Link Gr [...]

Finally I got to the point where I can write this. We have been continuously working for the last 5 months on this upgrade. To put it simply, this is the biggest upgrade to cognitiveSEO yet, and it improves the way you analyze backlinks by adding even more link data points into a new & simplified user interface. In the age of raw link data and hundreds of SEO metrics, we are improving the backlink analyzer concepts used in our  tool by providing: Fresh & Complete Link Data [ [...]

This is a guest article written by Traian Neacsu. He is the Director of SEO and co-founder of Pitstop Media Inc, a top rated Canadian SEO company that provides search engine optimization services to businesses across North America. The views of the author do not necessarily represent the views of cognitiveSEO. High authority, relevant backlinks are gold for search engine rankings. And we are always attempting to trace and to get our hands on them. When it comes to find the best backl [...]