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Tagged with negative-seo seo
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What is the appropriate way to deal with blog post that start to rank on porn-related queries?
In Google Search Console, I noticed a few of my blog posts have started to rank for porn-related queries. When I checked in ahrefs I saw a few hundreds of spammy links to my page through a redirect ...
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Link exchange with nofollow noindex bad for SEO?
I have different websites A and B but the same niche. Some users visiting website A has interesting to buy products on website B and vice versa.
So, I thought to exchange backlinks on both sites and ...
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Best way to configure URL and subdomain
I am configuring a new brand which is a sub-entity of a well established organisation with excellent Google standing.
I was thinking to configure the new site as a subdomain, new.old-brand.example, ...
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How to redirect to the latest post/article correctly without impacting SEO?
I'm working on a site that will showcase the latest photos from photographers and there'll be minimum text e.g. description of the photo, location of the photo, etc.
The site will deployed using ...
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Is it possible to dissavow all links from a top level domain (like .xyz)?
Is it possible to disavow domain extensions? Like .com or .net?
Lately I noticed new spammers strategy instead of pointing many URLs to your server they point hundreds of domains from certain ...
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How to deal with data-sheet and product PDFs which are repeated over the web?
What is the proper way to deal with a situation where a company (acme.com) is selling and implementing certain kinds of gadgets?
Each product has its own dedicated HTML product page, with only general ...
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What's the best strategy for letting extraneous domains go?
My employer has several dozen domains that were registered by a previous marketing team, who felt they needed to register every possible variant/misspelling they could think of. The vast majority of ...
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Are Chinese websites unfriendly to Google optimization? Why does my website always fail to rank on Google? [duplicate]
Are Chinese websites unfriendly to Google optimization? Why does my website always fail to rank on Google?
And why many people on this platform want to hack our China, we are also a free and safe ...
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Will a website on a different country publishing owned reviews from the original have any implication on SEO?
So I have a website where I post affiliate product reviews etc. Let's say it's example.com. On this site, I post international product reviews which have worldwide shipping. Recently I bought example....
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What do you do when you find out some one has created hundreds of low quality backlinks to your website?
For the last couple of months, I noticed that the backlinks to a website I manage as reported by https://semrush.com increased by more than 800. When I checked, I found that there were hundreds of new ...
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Bad backlinks although not yet registered in search engines?
I have a website that is hosted online but not yet registered in the search engines. But my website already has backlinks. Bad backlinks. Backlinks that have zero relation to my website. How can this ...
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SEO for websites with similar content
We have 3 businesses, located in different areas, with different names. They have different domains, and do not cross reference each other.
The business is the same function (medical), and branded ...
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Is it true that Google does not like copying pages and changing the keywords?
I have created 3 web pages and optimized each for similar content (only change Keywords) but different keywords & Meta Description in all 3 pages.
Is the okay to have similar content on these ...
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site: search on Google was showing results from another site, they were removed, but now reappeared in Google Search Console
I'm facing an odd situation, I've added site as property to google search console in this april, around last week i checked that search query, site:my-site.com was showing links for pages which I have ...
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Malicious backlinks from malware sites - what's their purpose?
I have two websites that have created dozens of backlinks to my website. votefrankharris dot com and a similar ddswhite dot com. The first website's backlinking pages redirect to malicious pages/...
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Ubersuggest continuously finds newly created spammy backlinks to my site
I found some of the spam links in Ubersuggest backlinks report for my website.. The spam backlinks increase daily as measured by this tool.
I removed all URLs from Google Search Console as well as ...
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Permalink Structure change killed traffic - change back?
On my website I had a wordpress permalink structure that was as follows:
http://example.com/2012/03/post-name/
Having read in many places that a simpler permalink structure could boost SEO rankings, ...
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How to block external links from websites that have loaded our website in an iframe?
There's website lilpot which has listed URLs to millions of website from it's domain and is loading those websites in iframe. Recently, it has started doing the same for my domain too. We want to ...
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Implement hreflang with multiple regions same language and page
My search results seem to not be correctly localized since adding a 'Europe' /eu/ page.
My header now looks like this (taken from EU page https://example.com/eu/features/).
<link rel="canonical" ...
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Can I wildcard disavow all links from any site on a specific top level domain?
So lately I found more than 7,500 links our website that are coming from spam sites. I used disavow to get rid of them.
In the future though, nobody stops a spammer to make
abc.tk
foo.tk
bar.tk
LOL....
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How can we prevent sites from loading our site in an iFrame which causes spammy links in out "top linking sites" report?
There are few websites which are loading our entire website in iFrame and generating lots of spammy links to our website from their domain. Check this link which has linked our pages and loaded our ...
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Can a website harm the SEO of another? [duplicate]
Sounds strange because and indeed it is. I came here to ask for this because I am lost for words, in a negative way. The company I work for, created a new brand name. Let's call the company Foo and ...
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Is it okay to cross-post my own posts on multiple separate WordPress.org sites? Is it good or bad for SEO? [duplicate]
I write blog posts for multiple WordPress.org blogs and where content overlaps, I wonder if I should post it separately on multiple blogs or not. Often this happens with posts I write to my personal ...
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Using both JSON+LD and Microdata to markup the exact same information on a page
This Quora Answer: https://www.quora.com/Can-I-mix-microdata-and-JSON-LD/answer/Aaron-Bradley
The above answer from 2015 mentions there being a potential problem when marking up the same entity with ...
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Is sudden high bounce rate traffic on one page of my site a negative SEO from competitors?
My Google analytics shows %100 bonce rate on one of my website pages in last 2 weeks. All of this traffic is new user and visit this page directly (Not from search engine, paid search or referral) and ...
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How can I quickly detect irrelevant Keywords suggested by Google Keyword Planner?
Even if I provide focused seeds to Google Keyword Planner, it usually returns some irrelevant keywords.
I want to quickly detect and remove them. Do I have to check every suggested keyword? Sometimes ...
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Negative SEO: do brand mentions (not links) on low quality websites affect rank?
My brand - 'Brand X' - has thousands of mentions on low quality websites. These are mentions only, sometimes mentioning 'Brand X' and other times mentioning the domain 'brandx.com'. No hyperlinks ...
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Thousands of links from Russian Sites
I've recently checked into my Google Webmasters account and found that I have several thousand links from .ru domains. Almost half of all links from one domain.
I have never hired anyone for link ...
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SEO for multifacited company [duplicate]
I am trying to create a website and up the SEO rating for rocket-media.co.uk. The company covers a lot of different design, print, exhibition and digital services. They currently have a one-page site ...
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Are automatically generated spam backlinks that I didn't create likely to be a negative SEO attack from a competitor?
In last 10 days, my website traffic suddenly increased. Yesterday I noticed that my domain authority value and my website backlinks also increased. I reviewed my backlinks in ahrefs.com and I noticed ...
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Is it cloaking to use e.preventdefault on the link to the second page to make users register before continuing?
We have a very voluminous site. We want to index around 50,000 pages.
We want the pages to be all in the Google index and accessible.
We also want that if a user arrives on the first page, when he ...
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Accident with a lot of indexed pages - Google is not happy
We had more than 500 pages indexed, we are a relatively new site but I think we have good content so Google was ok with our pages.
Most of this pages were profiles and had a url structure like /place/...
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Will Posting a Link to My Site in Every Tweet Have a Negative Impact on SEO?
I have a site that auto-posts to twitter (and facebook) different content from my site (always unique) about 5 times per day. Will including a backlink to my site in every post negatively (or ...
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Method for removal of high number of spammy links
I haven't been able to figure out the right combination for deindexing spammy links from search results. On one hand, we have the Google URL remover which removes links temporarily (they may show up ...
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www vs non-www in seo [duplicate]
I recently overhauled a website for a client. Their preference was to switch from a www url to a non-www url as part of the redesign.
Once we launched the site, it took a major plummet in its ...
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Is SEO dinged if another site's post excerpt and thumbnail are used on a different site for reference?
I'm trying to see if what I have in mind is optimal or if there is any other solutions as I didn't see a definitive answer when I tried searching the site. The closest question I was able to find was ...
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Business Directory - duplicate content in descriptions - SEO impact
I run a Business Listing Directory website listing local businesses in the area. These businesses are allowed to submit their company description, contact details, URL and other links such as Fb or ...
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Should I submit both mobile and desktop domain names for indexing on non-responsive sites or is that bad for SEO?
I have a desktop version of my site using yourwebsite.com and a mobile version using m.yourwebsite.com.
Should I treat them as one site and only submit the desktop version along with its sitemap and ...
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How can I copy posts from my old (but still active) blog without SEO penalty?
I have had an old blog (which is still active) where I published some articles which I also want to publish on the new blog?
How can I do this without SEO penalty?
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Two websites with semi-similar keywords on same IP server / SEO affecting SERPS [duplicate]
Two websites have semi-similar (main) keywords
1 brand site /w keyword "Superman shoes"
and 1 retail site named shoes.com
They both run on the same server/hosting, same SSL cert, comparable design, ...
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How to PREVENT ranking for a keyword? [duplicate]
A client frequently receives unwanted traffic from Google. They do not wish to receive these visitors, mainly because they want not to deal with them through their support channels. So they asked for ...
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Get Google to ignore backlinks from a particular domain
I just used a backlink scan tool to show me the backlinks to my site. I have found there are almost 90k backlinks. The problem is that about 95% of these are coming from the same domains and these are ...
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Setting up Wordpress site for AMP - SEO implications
This is fairly new and I have been reading up on AMP implantation. There is a plugin that sets up AMP pages for WordPress.
My concern is duplicate content since there will be a new set of pages with ...
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Can I capitalize on my spammed open redirect by changing where the redirects point?
I have two websites. One is rather old and used to be my main site, and it still has a good bit of PageRank. The newer site is passing the old one in terms of SEO. On my old site, I have a ASP page ...
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Hide joyride (intro javascript) for Googlebot
I am using a joyride script for new visitors.
Example here:
http://foundation.zurb.com/sites/docs/v/5.5.3/components/joyride.html
After the vistior is done with the intro, a cookie will be created ...
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Is hiding text in links bad if the links are icon fonts?
I've done a few quick SEO tests of a page and they all suggest "consider adding text to links". The links they were referring to are all social icons, and are displayed using icon fonts. I've read a ...
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Multiple websites with same topic
I want to create 10 websites about same topic.
Each website has its own template and each will have around 10 unique articles. Topcis/titles of the articles will be identical. I will not link sites ...
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How to link domains hosted on one hosting account
I have several different domains hosted on one hosting account and some of these domains are linked together not because I am trying to influence page rank but because they contain related content. ...
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A domain I'm want to register is listed "malicious" — should I be worried?
I've found an interesting domain name that I'm considering about getting, did a Google search, and one of the results on the first page appears to suggest that the former site at the domain name might ...
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Changing pagination, and having more sections per page
I'm upgrading an old website, from having 25 results per page (40 pages), to having 50-100 per page (5-10 pages)
This will change the pagination, and maybe affect search engines in a bad way.. So I'm ...
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