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Did it ever happen to you to read an article about SEO and on the verge of your maximum concentration you stumble upon a term that you don't quite know what it means? Help your friends learn "SEOish". Share it with them on Either it's a slang, a jargon or an expression used with a different meaning that we thought, at some point everyone is in the position of browsing several web pages to understand what was actually that term referring at. So we created “The SEO Lingo”, maybe the [...]

One of the ways that can guarantee you always being a step ahead of your competitors and a top player in your niche is to be up-to-date with how your site and your competitors sites are doing from an SEO point of view.  Think how the following might affect your business: Your Rankings Drop. New HQ reviews are published about your competitors. Important Competitor Links become broken. A Negative SEO campaign hits you. Some competitors start to outrank you in Google and Bing. You l [...]

Since July, when we launched the automatic unnatural link detection tool, we analyzed carefully how our customers use it. We quickly understood that you needed a fast way to manually validate the links to be disavowed, in order to be 100% confident that those are the correct ones. In order to be 100% sure that a link is unnatural or not, you actually need to load that page and look for the link on the page.  The major problem, is that you usually have to visit hundreds, if not thousands, [...]

Blog traffic became a huge factor in determining the success of an online marketing campaign. Traffic whether it is referred or organic could bring potential customers to a site that obviously makes the business profitable and increases its branding potential (especially when customers became brand advocates). There is a lot more benefits a brand could gain once it has a continuous flow of traffic. But the methods on how to actually do it are more important than the theories. In this p [...]

This is a TRUE, SUCCESSFUL & UNREQUESTED story from Manuel Porras, one of our customers. "I don't have any knowledge about a recovery using the Google Disavow on an algorithmic penalty. Only manual penalties have been publicly reported to work using the Disavow tool. Knowing this I wanted to be 100% sure that this isn’t something else. I took the diligence and analyzed the situation carefully." Read the full-disclosure at the end of the article.   Let me tell you my e [...]

Yes. This is True and below you can find a fully detailed explanation of the current situation. Check this in their our search results here. As a Google Plus user I first noticed this 6 months ago and thought it was a glitch. Problem is it wasn't, and nothing changed since then. I call this: the "Google +" Branding Bug. Let me explain. Each brand may be searched, in a search engine, by various brand name variations. In our case the most important are: Google+ Google + Googleplu [...]

I am sure you are already accustomed with checking backlinks at the Domain, Sub-domain or Page level. There is one other type of check that you might be interested in … Today we introduce: Prefix / Folder Backlink Checking I am sure that at least once in your “SEO PRO life”, you needed to quickly check the backlinks for a product category (ONLY) or a blog directory? This new feature allows you to segment the links that point to all of the pages on a site that respect a specific word [...]

Yes they really are! :) Oui. Ja. Si. Ja. Da. Ken. Hai. 是 [Shi]. Já. Haan. Да. Evet. Nai. Tak. Taip. Kyllä. Ja. Ya. They are actually killing you site and business, that is if you are building a sustainable medium to long-term online business as most people do. If you are into the “trickery” business (like short term  with no brand attachments ... ) then unnatural links may still do it for you. (read about it at the end of the article). Here are a few things on what this articl [...]

After our unnatural link detection launch last week, a lot of people asked if they should disavow NO-FOLLOW links. The short answer is that there is no exact answer on this. There are 2 major, contradictory, opinions on this: No. You shouldn’t disavow No-follow links, as Google says it doesn’t pass any ranking juice to them. [GOOGLE APPROVED] Yes. You should disavow No-follow links as they might be created using unnatural methods and they could add up in the unnatural link mix. [...]

This post is actually my presentation that I gave last week at SearchMarketingDay in Poznan. It is a guide that I called the “THE NO.BS GUIDE” and covers the most important aspects surrounding the Google Penguin penalties and Unnatural Link Warnings. This guide combined with our freshly launched automatic unnatural link detection system gives you super SEO powers to recover and prevent any unnatural link penalty. I would like to personably thank Cezary Lech and the MaxRoy team for [...]