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On April 24th, Google released a major web-spam update to its index called Penguin. Although it reportedly affected “just” 3.1% of English search queries, it hit the most “optimized” SERPs and high value keywords, so it made a big noise in the SEO community. From the data we have so far, Google made this update to hit “over-optimized” websites. Those engaged in heavy SEO link-building / keyword stuffing / unnatural text / link anchor patterns. Read more

So I’m doing my normal weekly backlink check to see if there are some new and interesting websites linking to us and I discover someone has built 190 “dofollow” backlinks from 43 different domains towards this article on inchoo.net. Most of these backlinks have porn related anchors. Naturally, my first thought was, some spammer made a comment on the blog post and decided to build backlinks towards this post, but there was no such comment on it. Was this built by a competitor – or someone just made a mistake during their spamy link building efforts – remains a mystery. Read more

Have you ever wondered what would resolve if your robtos.txt and your meta tags had conflicting directives regarding content indexing? Don’t worry, this question can be a real challenge to even very advanced SEOs. To make this issue a bit clearer to the general public, I decided to make this guide that will show you exactly what happens in these situations. Read more