What To Avoid With SEO

Google is continually changing its PageRank algorithm, and these changes result in the search engine optimization (SEO) industry constantly changing. The result is that today many of the traditional standard practices are now deadly sins, and you don’t dare commit them without being penalized by Google, who may even kill your ability to rank. Therefore …

Why You Shouldn’t Worry About Negative SEO

Negative SEO occurs when someone purposefully harms another website’s organic search traffic. Typically, this occurs when a spammy website (e.g. scraper site, porn, a site infected with malware) links to the negatively impacted website. Unfortunately, as a webmaster there isn’t anything you can do to stop this from happening. This is why so many ecommerce …

Lengthy SEO Penalties Faced by Hacked Websites

When 1,605 WordPress users were surveyed, about 50% of them admitted they were flagged by Google when they were a hacked website because they contained “malicious content.” Unfortunately, this means that many people don’t realize when they were flagged since Google doesn’t alert you. However, if you move quickly once you’ve been hacked, you’ll probably …