Today Google announced a major effort to combat link spam impacting search results. Today, with our December 2022 link spam update, we’re leveraging the power of SpamBrain to neutralize the impact of unnatural links on search results. The update launches today & will take about two weeks to rollout. Learn more: https://t.co/ACO2Ut8wmi — Google...
Doing great link building is difficult, it is even harder when your competitor takes risks and violates Google’s Webmaster Guidelines and the sanctity of other people’s websites in order to gain quality links at any cost. Last week the startup developer website Hacker News lit up with an...
It is time to turn off the hype machine and talk about real, legitimate reasons an ecommerce retailer should accept Bitcoin based in real facts. Disclaimer, I have been a Bitcoin fan since the beginning but lost most of my coins early on (yeah one of those) but...
Update: This issue now impacts Ahrefs as well causing domains in their system to have an elevated Domain Rating (DR). SEO scammers are using this to both sell links and pretend to be high-quality SEO practitioners. No matter how hard the SEO industry or Moz itself trys to...
For the past 15 years the internets largest websites have ganged up and attacked small websites using one tool, the nofollow rel attribute. Now, a growing tech-focused blog platform wants to right that wrong. Navigation: How to Get a Company Page on Hacker Noon Nofollow, which effectively stops...
There are several link tracking and analysis tools used by marketers and SEOs to measure the success of their campaigns. Moz, Majestic, Ahrefs, and SEMRush are some of the more popular tools used to track inbound links to a website. All of these tools have different methods for...
As an SEO I’ve spent years telling clients, bosses, colleagues in related fields, packed rooms at conferences, my mom, college kids, friends, significant others, random people in grocery stores, newborn babies, people stuck next to me on a plane, and pretty much anyone who will listen or is...
Recently PR Hunters, a tool that helps PR and Marketing folks find journalists looking for sources from around the world, did a small poll on Twitter asking journalists which social media platform they use most to find new story ideas. The poll didn’t gain a lot of votes,...
Joe Youngblood Consulting has acquired PRHunters, a SaaS tool based in the UK that seeks to help connect journalists and sources. PRHunters is similar to other journalist outreach tools you’ve used, but instead of requiring that journalist submit requests to an email list and that pr people /...
