Marie Haynes’ Guide to the Quality Raters Guidelines
Google’s Quality Raters’ Guidelines is a large document that is given to thousands of people whom Google hires as contractors. The goal of these guidelines is teach these “Quality Raters” how to assess the overall quality of a website.
Marie Haynes has pored through the guidelines word-by-word, developed optimization strategies, and is seeing amazing results with her clients in implementing these strategies. In this book, she shares the tips and how-to’s that will help you improve your site’s quality in the eyes of Google.
Traffic Drops
Not sure why your traffic has dropped? We’ll have a thorough look at your analytics, your site and more, to determine which, if any, Google algorithms are responsible for your drop.
Google Penguin
Google’s Penguin algorithm, introduced in April of 2012, had a devastating effect on sites who used manipulative linking tactics. Dr. Haynes is known as one of the best in the world at both understanding and defeating Penguin.
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Google Panda
The Panda algorithm can cause severe ranking drops for sites with on-site quality issues. Thin content, untrustworthy content and problems with site architecture can all cause Panda to hinder a site’s rankings.
Link Audits
Whether you need help auditing your links or want us to do it all for you, we can help. We can provide you with a spreadsheet of your links and coaching, or can audit your links once, monthly or quarterly.
Is your website having trouble ranking well on Google?
We can help you determine what is holding you back. And in many cases, we can fix the problem.
Potential Problems
- Are unnatural links causing Google’s Penguin algorithm to distrust your website?
- Do you have quality issues that are causing you to rank poorly in the eyes of Google’s Panda algorithm?
- Is a manual penalty holding you back?
- Are you struggling to get good, natural links?
It is vitally important to understand the nature of the problem before you try to fix it. We have seen countless webmasters who were doing aggressive link pruning, when really the problem with their site had nothing to do with links! Contact us today for a quote to have Google penalty expert, Dr. Marie Haynes assess your website.

More about Dr. Marie Haynes
You can follow Marie’s writings on Moz and Search Engine Watch
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or read more about her here.
Customer testimonials:
Here is a testimonial we received from a manual penalty client:
“Marie is a rarity in the world of SEO – she actually delivers what she says she is going to deliver! She is extremely knowledgeable, straightforward to deal with, great at communicating and thorough. As a UK ecommerce company, we were looking for the best in the business – and we found her. As a director of a UK ecommerce company, I can recommend her and her team without hesitation – I would recommend her services to anyone in the same situation as us – there is light at the end of the tunnel!”
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