In the ongoing effort to deliver the best possible search results, Google has recently rolled out a new mobile update affecting content with interstitials. Also referred to as popups, interstitials are essentially displays that obscure the content on a page. These popups can feature anything from ads and opt-in requests to disclaimers and chat boxes. […]
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Days ago, Google reportedly rolled out an update to its mobile algorithm, adding a new penalty for mobile sites that have large app interstitial ads. This algorithm update, which Google first alluded to back in the beginning of September, officially went live on November 2nd. Google announced the update on its social media profiles, explaining: […]
In an ongoing effort to target webspam and improve the user experience, Google’s Search Quality team has just announced that it will be updating its doorway page algorithm. Described as a “ranking adjustment,” this doorway page algorithm update will attempt to better classify doorway pages, filter these pages out of search results and provide better […]
Google penalties can be costly and distressing when trying to do SEO. Especially considering the fact that, in some cases, these penalties can suddenly cause dramatic drops in sites’ traffic without any warning. In fact, what website owners may not realize is that: Google’s Webmaster Guidelines don’t specifically detail the types and nature of the […]
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Many of our recent blogs have been dedicated to explaining what search engine penalties are and how website owners can recover from them. Here, we will provide some additional important facts about Google penalties, including some details regarding how long it can take to recover from them and what website owners need to do […]
Wrapping up the three-part blog Recovering from a Manual Google Penalty, below, we will outline the final steps to take as you work on helping your website recover from a Google penalty. Once you have identified which bad backlinks to your website still exist (as described in detail in Part 2 of this blog), […]
Picking up from Recovering from a Manual Google Penalty (Part 1), the following delves into the next few steps that are important to take in the journey of recovering from manual penalties. Once a penalized website has been cleaned up and the website owner has compiled a comprehensive list of all of the bad […]
Google penalties – or any search engine penalties for that matter – can have devastating effects on websites’ rankings, and they can take some time to recover from. The good news, however, is that, with some diligent work over time: You can do what is necessary to resolve the issues that caused the penalty […]
