Archives for January 28, 2016

As part of Google’s redesign of Google Search Console, they have released a brand new version of their Webmaster Guidelines. Here is a line-by-line of every change, addition and removal from the previous version.  So let’s get started! Introduction The first change is the ommission of a single phrase within their opening paragraph.  Previously, it […]

While most SEOs who do disavows for clients have their own ways of making sense of their files, whether adding comments or making multiple files and combining them later into one before uploading to Google, John Mueller from Google was asked about advice on structuring disavows files to submit to Google. While some of the […]

Negative SEO is always a hot topic, since the idea that a competitor can merely point a ton of crappy backlinks at a site to see it penalized is always a scary one to site owners.  John Mueller was asked about spammy backlinks from a negative SEO perspective, specifically as it relates to Penguin. Since […]

In yesterday’s webmaster hangout, the question was brought up about whether site owners need to disavow links from hacked sites. If a website identified as hacked by google (such as example.com) shows as linking to a site in webmaster tools, do we need to/should we disavow it? Or is google automatically not counting this? If […]