Regular readers of the Branded3 blog will know that we have been working with a large number of clients to try and get manual penalties removed and have done a huge amount of link clean-up. Our link clean-up team has been working for around two years looking at back...
SEO posts
Analysing the new, softer Panda algorithm and authority sites
Back in May, Matt Cutts talked about how Google was looking to use additional quality signals to help certain authority sites rank higher in a particular sector, and that they were going to also add authority as a factor into the Panda algorithm to soften the effect...
Should you fix partial manual action penalties?
Google hands out a lot of manual penalties for unnatural links these days, but not all of them are the sort of penalties that will wipe out your website; lots are just penalties that either devalue a few unnatural links or move you down for one particular set of keywords.
The Google reconsideration request: recovering a link penalty
Ever since Google started penalising sites for bad links, link auditing has never been a more important part of your SEO strategy. Over the past year we’ve dealt with and recovered over 40 sites suffering link-based penalties, but audited a lot more. Honestly, audits...