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Helping You Remove the Dreaded Google Penalty Slap Follow these guidelines to get the Google Penalty removed faster. Way back in February 2012, my GeekandJock Relationship Blog site was nailed by Google’s Quality Guidelines team as having ‘inorganic’ back-links. Like many Webmasters at the time, I wanted the quality content and relationship and dating help that I was producing to get into the hands of as many people as I could. The site wasn’t, at the time, geared to produce an income , though that was obviously the aim in the long term. I was engaged in common practise of peppering other websites with back-links that, in hindsight, wasn’t natural and the site paid the price. Real bad. Google Isn’t Forthcoming in Back-link Removal Assistance The site, like many of yours, is a labour of love and a part-time activity. Getting the dreaded short notice, instantly had me shaking at the knees. What do I do next? In short, here’s what you need to do: ...

Confession: I’ve fallen out of love! You know yourself, seeing Star Ratings in the Google SERPs catches your own eye. And so it goes for everyone else, using Google. Star Ratings are the new best friend for anyone with a website and wanting more traffic and potential customers. And Star Rating add credibility which is an influencing factor in Sales. I fell out of love with Author hReview and found a new love to replace her – and she’s even better so read on. Why Author hReview Is Rubbish? Ongoing (and high priced) 6 monthly renewal subscription. In comparison to my new love, I personally think Author hReview worked poorly The support was quite sporadic and almost a pick and choose to who got answered by the author, Hesham Zebida. Updates are few and far between While I found Author hReview a shiny object to start, the polish waned. Enter the SEO Booster Review What I fell in love with first was the value for money, given SEO Booster was only $24.00 which is more tha...

  Google Really Might Be Evil … People Can Invent Worse This might not be of much interest to many of the readers to this site but I thought I’d pen something that’s dear to my heart – if you don’t know what SEO is, move along … move along. A few days ago, Google rolled out another of it’s world impacting algorithms. They’ve been steadily fine tuning their search and ranking code in an endevour to what they say makes for a fairer playing field for the production of high quality content as opposed to scoring backlinks from other sites. These backlinks have always been reputed to be of equal importance and I dare say, Google promoted this fact until recently. In the past, this has meant people also invented ways to scam the Google system by paying for high quality backlinks or devising other methods to obtain them … read ‘Link Farms’ and ‘Link Directories’. Google has now changed that. Their algorithm now d...

Helping You Remove the Dreaded Google Penalty Slap Follow these guidelines to get the Google Penalty removed faster. Way back in February 2012, my GeekandJock Relationship Blog site was nailed by Google’s Quality Guidelines team as having ‘inorganic’ back-links. Like many Webmasters at the time, I wanted the quality content and relationship and dating help that I was producing to get into the hands of as many people as I could. The site wasn’t, at the time, geared to produce an income , though that was obviously the aim in the long term. I was engaged in common practise of peppering other websites with back-links that, in hindsight, wasn’t natural and the site paid the price. Real bad. Google Isn’t Forthcoming in Back-link Removal Assistance The site, like many of yours, is a labour of love and a part-time activity. Getting the dreaded short notice, instantly had me shaking at the knees. What do I do next? In short, here’s what you need to do: ...

Helping You Remove the Dreaded Google Penalty Slap Follow these guidelines to get the Google Penalty removed faster. Way back in February 2012, my GeekandJock Relationship Blog site was nailed by Google’s Quality Guidelines team as having ‘inorganic’ back-links. Like many Webmasters at the time, I wanted the quality content and relationship and dating help that I was producing to get into the hands of as many people as I could. The site wasn’t, at the time, geared to produce an income , though that was obviously the aim in the long term. I was engaged in common practise of peppering other websites with back-links that, in hindsight, wasn’t natural and the site paid the price. Real bad. Google Isn’t Forthcoming in Back-link Removal Assistance The site, like many of yours, is a labour of love and a part-time activity. Getting the dreaded short notice, instantly had me shaking at the knees. What do I do next? In short, here’s what you need to do: ...