Having a Google Links Penalty is not something you wish for, but it’s something that you might have to deal with if Google found those rotten links in your link profile. In today’s article we’re going to analyze the process of creating a Google Disavow file, submitting it to Google and tracking the results. To provide help to the people who practiced "bad" link building in the past and were in search of ways to clean up their messy link profile, in October 2012 Google launched the d [...]
I think there is no secret for anyone that here, at cognitiveSEO, there is only one thing that we treasure more than constantly improving our services: OUR CLIENTS. That’s right! The biggest pride of cognitiveSEO is our clients. They are our driving force, they are behind our restless urge for development and they are also our greatest source of learning. That is why we’re continuously making improvements to our tool, just to be sure it includes all the features our customers ne [...]
We can already notice a convergence between digital marketers, SEOs and webmasters. Nowadays they all have their tasks and responsibilities, yet all of their work will revolve, more or less, around the concept of link building. This is the topic that we’re going to talk about in today’s article. The concept of link building represents a way of creating a high authority website, with a great page rank that will ultimately lead to achieving your company’s marketing goals. To make it clear [...]
As we hope you already got used to, we, at cognitiveSEO, devote a large part of our time to improving our tool and therefore, to our customer satisfaction. We do believe that excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better and that's exactly what we are trying to do: a cutting edge product, tailored to our users' needs and which provides highly accurate data. And to prove that "cutting-edge" is not just a saying for us but really a constant concern of reaching the h [...]
In our recent posts we've tackled topics of content, natural growth and Start-up Strategies and focused less on link building. Well, in this article we'll talk about just that, a way to build new & relevant links to your site, after reading and understanding an in-depth competitive analysis. We'll present the link intersection technique, a way to go even more in-depth with the competitive analysis and link commonalities study. We've always advocated natural link building and this techniqu [...]
Probably you are familiar with the story of the two English salesmen who went down to Africa in the 1900s. They were sent down to find if there was any opportunity for selling shoes, and they wrote telegrams back home. And one of them wrote: "Situation hopeless. Stop. They don't wear shoes." And the other one wrote: "Glorious opportunity. They don't have any shoes yet." There's a similar situation when it comes to The Disavow Tool also, because there are some people who think that it's an ov [...]
This is a TRUE & SUCCESSFUL story from Jonathan Verrall - Senior SEO Manager at Jellyfish and one of our long time customers. “ Negative SEO attacks can come in many shapes. Given the latest Google Updates, black hats had to up their game, resorting to all kind of elaborated SEO attacks. In this context, keeping an eye on your backlinks is mandatory, as well as maintaining a healthy link profile. Below, there is a great, in-depth story about a recovery from a negative SEO attack fro [...]
I'm sure most of you are familiar with Buffer, the tweet scheduling app that evolved into a social media scheduling app. Now the tool is viewed as a necessity, not only for startups, but for every business which aspires to do great content marketing and build a tribe for itself. With a yearly income of nearly $4 million, Buffer managed to become one of the best platforms to schedule, analyze and create social media strategies on all social media websites including Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus [...]
This is a TRUE & SUCCESSFUL story from Bryan Stenslokken, SEO Manager at St. Louis-based internet marketing company Clix. “Below you will see presented another interesting recovery story from one of our great customers. Even with a sitewide link penalty reduced to a partial one, the site recovered its rankings. After nine months and another disavow the Partial penalty was removed also, leading to an even bigger ranking boost. It's a great story about organization, analysis and patien [...]
This is a TRUE & SUCCESSFUL story from Dale Gillespie, one of our customers. “Below you will see presented an interesting recovery story from one of our great customers, Mr. Dale Gillespie. Happily, he chose to share with us his experience regarding a Google Penguin Recovery and a successful implementation of a 301 redirect strategy mixed with 404 on pages affected by unnatural links. It's a great story about perseverance, patience and thinking ahead!" I'd like to share with [...]