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This is a TRUE, SUCCESSFUL & UNREQUESTED story from George Harris, one of our customers. "Mr Harris presents a very interesting Case Study on a Manual Action Recovery, where he outlines the fact that webmasters need to be perseverant and the recovery will finally happen. Lots of webmasters fail at Google Recoveries due to the fact that they expect it to happen after their  first Google Disavow or Link Removal campaign. It may take a few reconsideration requests until you get the re [...]

In this in-depth analysis we are going to highlight some interesting findings about the Google Penguin 3.0 Update. Although speculations have been on since early summer, it wasn't until this fall that Google's representatives said it loud and clear : Penguin 3.0 is rolling out! It's true that "it’s a slow worldwide rollout, so you may notice it settling down over the next few weeks" and it's also “ affecting fewer than 1% of queries in US English search results." as the Google guys announced [...]

One of the “fathers” of modern anthropology, Claude Lévi-Strauss, once described the scientist as “not a person who gives the right answers, [but] one who asks the right questions.” Scientific progress, by extension, might be measured best not by the answers we get, but by the questions we ask to get those answers. Questions are maybe our best tool in relating with ourselves and with the environment. Asking questions says not so much about the problematic nature of our environ [...]

Image Reading and Object Recognition in Images is an important task and challenge in image processing and computer vision. A simple search for “automatic object recognition” on Google scholar will provide you with a long list of articles mixing all sort of sophisticated equations and algorithms, dating from the early '90s until present. This means that the subject has been highly intriguing for the researchers in the field from the very beginning of search but is still work that seems to be [...]

Last time we looked at the Google’s Answer Boxes, we came up with quite a handful of interesting observations. However, we couldn’t quite give you the best explanation of what it takes to get your website on the position zero, as some named it. We gathered you needed to be regarded as an authority site, but what does that really translate into? The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' - Isaac Asimov So we [...]

Google Indexation is one of those matters that not many understand completely but,  one way or another, everybody needs it. Why do I say that? Although I know you are already familiar with this piece of information, let me remind you that: When your customers are doing a Google search, they aren't actually searching the web. What they're searching for is the Google's index of the web. This means that if your website is indexed by Google then a potential user will be able to find it in one [...]

You may have noticed that when you use Google to search for a certain answer to a question, a lot of times you actually get some sort of answer and not just a series of search results. For instance, if you’ve just recently made a terrible decision about changing your go-to barber’s shop  and would like to find out how soon the damage will fade away, you might ask Google “how fast does hair grow”, to which the famed oracle of wisdom will give an actual answer, in what we will refer to as [...]

It is pretty much agreed that Google can and probably does read metadata embedded in photos, though whether that influences SEO in any way is still disputed. In fact, the conventional wisdom seems to be that search engines do not take into account photo-embedded text (assuming they can read it at all) and that the practice of embedding text in photos is generally a bad idea for a series of other non-SEO reasons (mostly having to do with accessibility of the information for the user). At the sam [...]

No longer than one year ago, on June 11th 2013, Google, launched a new algorithm whose main purpose was to clean some very “shady” niches, such as “payday loans” or “buy Viagra”. These are very controversial niches that everybody knew about but hardly anybody talked about. One year earlier, in 2012 we tried to fire a warning shot concerning this matter,  but Matt Cutt's answer came out 1 year later, when they released the initial Payday Loans Google Update. “There were people c [...]

At cognitiveSEO, we are always trying to make our user's experience as good as possible and be of a real help to our customer's businesses. This is why we put in a lot of working hours in improving the toolset. This update improves the functionality of the Unnatural Link Detection Tool by simplifying the old interface and adding a few more in-depth analysis charts that will give you a clear picture on why your site might be penalized or why it could be penalized in the future. Unnatural links [...]