In a rare move, Google confirmed that a publisher named Natural News was penalized and deindexed by the major search engine over Google webmaster guidelines violations. In fact, Google’s John Mueller specifically said the site was using sneaky mobile redirect, and once that is “cleaned up, the site can submit …
Read More »SearchCap: Google site closed, penalty recovery & shopping ads
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: After rare Google confirmation of on-site penalty, Natural News is back in Google’s indexFeb 28, 2017 by Barry Schwartz HealthNews.com confirms being reincluded in the Google …
Read More »SearchCap: Google penalty, the KKK & Gboard
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Natural News was not banned from Google over fake newsFeb 23, 2017 by Barry Schwartz A Google webmaster violation is the reason this web site was …
Read More »Manual Penalty Recovery: From 10,000 Organic Sessions Per Day to 1,000 And Back
This article is a case study on how we did a Google penalty assessment and a penalty recovery for one of our clients that had a steady 10,000 organic sessions per day and went to under 1000 in one day due to a site-wide Manual Action penalty. Here is how …
Read More »The Google Pop-Up (Interstitial) Penalty Explained
This post may contain some awesome recommendations that are affiliate links (they are noted with an asterisks). On August 23rd, Google casually released a blog post entitled “Helping Users Easily Access Content on Mobile.” The title by itself sounded pretty harmless. If it were not for the fact that the …
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