While the SEO world is holding its breath waiting for the “next generation Penguin update” or “Penguin 4″, I want to put the spotlight on the importance of a thorough link clean up. Not after you get the warning from Google but in good time before you do. Cleaning up your link profile might save you from a lot of work and lost business when the big update rolls out. (more…)
Digg is now back in the search results after Google explained what happened. Matt Cutts from Google explains it had to do with a spammer attack:
“We were tackling a spammer and inadvertently took action on the root page of digg.com.”
He also stresses this has nothing to with Google Reader, which was suggested on Social Media since Digg announced it would build their own version of it.
He also said:
“we’ll be looking into what protections or process improvements would make this less likely to happen in the future.”
The official response from Google is:
“We’re sorry about the inconvenience this morning to people trying to search for Digg. In the process of removing a spammy link on Digg.com, we inadvertently applied the webspam action to the whole site. We’re correcting this, and the fix should be deployed shortly.”
There was a time when Digg.com was the hottest site on the web. Even hotter than Google, believe it or not. Those times have passed and its founder, Kevin Rose, has actually jumped ship to Google.
But still Digg is a force to reckon with. Quantcast last year estimated Digg’s monthly U.S. unique visits at 3.8 million, and that is US only. And a lot of that traffic still comes through Google.
Today however Digg disappeared from Google from a short time. Matt Sawyer of Datadial tweeted out earlier today that the site seems to have disappeared from Google. And he seems to be right. It had (more…)
Over the next three days we will be running a series of interviews with the trainers at the BrightonSEO workshops. If you haven’t booked a place yet, do so soon as tickets are selling out fast.
In the first interview of the week, we spoke to Tim Grice, Head of Search at Branded3 and Dara Fitzgerald, Head of Insight at FreshEgg.
Tim will be running a workshop on one of the hottest topics over the last six months, Penalty Recovery and Future Proofing SEO Strategies. If you are attending this workshop, you can expect to walk away packed full of knowledge about what links are ‘unnatural’, what an effective recovery would look like and how to develop a strategy for your link building that will stand with you through the test of time.
Dara is focusing on advanced techniques you can use with Google Analytics which will help attendees get more insight out of campaigns and ensure they can measure campaigns more transparently. Some of the core features that Dara will be looking at include Advanced Segments, Event Tracking, Cross Domain Tracking, Custom Reports and more. To book your place, click here.
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