Introduction to Google Penalties, Link Audit and Link Risk Management

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Christoph C. Cemper

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AboutChristoph C. Cemper

SEO & Marketing since 2003

Founder & CEO of

LinkResearchTools

Link Detox

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WHAT MATTERS in SEO?

RANKINGS.

RESULTS.

IS THIS GOOD SEO?

NO BIG DEAL THAT IS MY BRAND

„Glory Terms“

Vanity Search

IF you don‘t have brand rankings…

… you are really in troubleor wrong brand

MONEY KEYWORDS MATTER

BRAND KEYWORD SEARCH

MONEY KEYWORD SEARCH

WHO KNOWSTHIS GUY?

Matt Cutts, Head of Google Webspam TeamFighting SEO Spam since January 2000On Leave since July 2014

GOOGLE PENALTIES ARE HAPPENING.

The question is WHEN…

And WHO gets hit.

A 99% DROP IN TRAFFIC HURTS

IF GOOGLE CALLS YOU „PURE SPAM“

BIG BRANDS are not immune

Types of Google Penalties

◦ Link Based Penalty – Google Penguin

◦ Content & Site based penalty – Google Panda

„Big“ Automated Penalties („Filters“)

◦ Pure Spam◦ Unnatural Links to your Site◦ Hacked Site◦ Thin Content◦ Pure Spam◦ User-Generated Spam◦ Cloaking and Sneaky Redirects◦ Hidden Text and Keyword Stuffing◦ Spammy Freehosts◦ Spammy Structured Markup

http://www.linkresearchtools.com/case-studies/google-manual-action-penalties-recovery/

Manual Penalties („Manual Actions “)

Manual Actions over Time

◦ „Deep Dive“ by Google Spam Team◦ Competitors complaining to Google◦ Negative SEO

http://www.linkresearchtools.com/case-studies/google-manual-action-penalties-recovery/

Triggers for Manual Penalties

◦ Google Pigeon Update – Targeting Local SEO & Maps

◦ Payday Loans Updates – Targeting Notoriously Spammy Industries

◦ Pirate Update – Targeting copyright violations (DMCA)

◦ Quality Update

◦ Mobile Update aka “Mobilegeddon”

Other Google Updates (causing Penalties)

WHAT IS GOOGLE PENGUIN?

It‘s an automated Spam Fighter.

Natural Links VS Unnatural Links

History of Google Penguin Updates

THOUSANDS OF VICTIMS… Penguin 1 on April 24, 2012 (impacting around 3.1% of queries)

Penguin 2 on May 26, 2012 (impacting less than 0.1%)

Penguin 3 on October 5, 2012 (impacting around 0.3% of queries)

Penguin 4 (AKA Penguin 2.0) on May 22, 2013 (impacting 2.3% of queries)

Penguin 5 (AKA Penguin 2.1) on October 4, 2013 (impacting around 1% of queries)

Penguin 6 (AKA Penguin 3.0) on October 17 (impacting around 1% of queries)

Penguin Everflux – December 10, 2014

LINK BUILDING changed

http://webcertain.tv/vod/5-past-keynote-christoph-cemper-link-research-tools/1234

What Penguinhates?

Google Penguin hates◦ Low Quality Links◦ Over Optimized Anchor Text◦ Keyword Stuffing◦ Paid Links◦ Automated Spam Links◦ Link Directories◦ Article Directories◦ Free For All (FFA)

EVERYTHINGTHAT IS

EASY AND CHEAP

This is unacceptable

What Penguinloves?

Google Penguin likesPenguin likes

Natural Links

On Topic Links

Diversified Anchor Text

EVERYTHINGTHAT IS NATURAL

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What toDO?

Link Risk Management

Recover your site from a Google Penalty

Protect from new bad backlinks and negative SEO

Build Safe links with audited Link Detox Risk

Ongoing Link Audit Process

Recover your site!

There are two possible solutions:

1. Collect all your backlinks

2. Gather them all on one place

3. Remove duplicates

4. Check every backlink

5. Identify and disavow risky ones

6. Collect them in one document

7. Upload them to Google Search Console (GWT)

8. Wait up to 9 months

Option A – Manual Review

Option B – Link Detox

Start your Link Detox report

Analyze your results

Check your backlinks

Outreach to webmasters

Review your backlinks manually

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Boost & Measure Google Crawling

Protect your site!

Monitor your backlink profile

Continous Monitoring with Link Alerts

◦ New spammy link spikes

◦ New virus links

◦ New malware links

◦ But also new MENTIONS to convert

Ongoing cleanup, disavow and outreach

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GETTING SAFE LINKS

Some cheap „Mickey Mouse Desktop tool“ with „Private Proxies“

GMAIL with some „cool“ plug-ins to „save you time“

Using these „great“ tools?

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