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This article is a summary of everything I could find that was a statement from Google in regards to negative SEO.  Do they admit that it can happen?  Is it a common occurrence.  In a few places in this article I have given my opinion or commentary, but the majority of the article is quoted […]

Recently there has been a lot of confusion surrounding guest posting and whether or not links from guest posts are all to be considered unnatural.  Rand Fishkin stirred up a good debate when he published an article called “Dear Google, Links from YouMoz Don’t Violate Your Quality Guidelines.”  He wrote the article because a penalized […]

Updated July 4, 2019 This article was originally published in 2014. It is still applicable at the time of editing in 2019.  Important: In May of 2019, we received a number of requests for help removing unnatural links penalties from sites that had overused footer links. Several of these were sites that made use of links […]

July 6, 2013 I’m pretty sure you’re a smart SEO.  You’re not one of those SEOs who gets links from low quality sources like comment spam, low quality directories and fake forum profiles, right?  You are likely able to get great links by writing good, authoritative articles and getting them published on high quality sites. […]

Recently, another batch of unnatural links warnings was sent out to webmasters via Google Webmaster Tools.  The warnings are the exact same as the ones that were released from July 2011 to March 2012, and say the following: