Googles Algo Changes and How Your Site Links Can Hurt Your Organic Rankings

[OrganicSeoGuru]

I am going to make this very quick, over the last few days I have had countless emails from both clients and prospects asking if they need to worry about how the changes will effect them.

While there are countless different variables the only thing that is going to matter disproportionally to everything else is your external linking profile.

If you have sites that are important to you, make sure you are not linking to any shady sites, either knowingly or not. (not knowing is not an excuse to Google, they could care less, your domain ='s your responsibility)

If you are linking to sites that have been hit hard, it can hurt your sites trust and authority algo factors within Google and you can bet in YaBing aswell, (Yahoo + Bing = YaBing, sorry been calling it that since the takeover)


Action Steps for important sites you own.

1) Review and clean your link profile, if your not sure how PM and I will lead you in the right direction.

[paulgl]

Google has always told you not to link to shady sites. Nothing new there.
Very little is new in the whole "new" algo, just reinforcing and reiterating
google webmaster guidelines that should have been followed all along.

Paul

[OrganicSeoGuru]

Originally Posted by paulgl

Google has always told you not to link to shady sites. Nothing new there.
Very little is new in the whole "new" algo, just reinforcing and reiterating
google webmaster guidelines that should have been followed all along.

Paul

Yes but the point is the definition of what is shady has been expanded to some degree...

[gearmonkey]

What are these shady sites you speak of? I want to blast about 50k of my competitors links to them.

[rcritchett]

Interesting stuff. I've read similar information.

[LawrenceTam]

so does this mean companies will now just hire google bowling experts? great. black hat specialist will now just work against competition vs for clients directly

I think google is really trying to devalue the excessive content built / spun around the majority of niches that internet marketers focus on - probably because there are 2 billion get rid of acne web pages, and colon cleanser and hoodia and....

[AbdullahKaragoz]

But What if I own a blog or forum, and some comments on my posts, and then links to their website.

And after a while, he puts down his homepage, so that the link is broken, or the link is linking to a domain which is for sale.

And so, it will affect your website?

[Warriorman1]

Originally Posted by OrganicSeoGuru

I am going to make this very quick, over the last few days I have had countless emails from both clients and prospects asking if they need to worry about how the changes will effect them.

While there are countless different variables the only thing that is going to matter disproportionally to everything else is your external linking profile.

If you have sites that are important to you, make sure you are not linking to any shady sites, either knowingly or not. (not knowing is not an excuse to Google, they could care less, your domain ='s your responsibility)

If you are linking to sites that have been hit hard, it can hurt your sites trust and authority algo factors within Google and you can bet in YaBing aswell, (Yahoo + Bing = YaBing, sorry been calling it that since the takeover)


Action Steps for important sites you own.

1) Review and clean your link profile, if your not sure how PM and I will lead you in the right direction.

Tried to pm you, but Im a new member... Here is my question:


Just wondering if you knew whether it's possible to rank on the first page of google using a free website like: Weebly.com or webs.com.

Now I know that I hear many seo experts say to buy a domain since google likes these types of sites better, but I have seen a couple of free sites that rank on the first page.

I'm trying to dominate the keywords "Hip Hop Drum Samples" and if you type "hip hop drum samples" into google, you will see that there is a site titled: Hiphopdrumsamplesnloops.weebly[dot]com which lands on the first page of google for this term.

This guy is using the free Weebly.com site and still he ranks well for those keyword terms. So my question to you is, do you think I can out rank this guy by using the same Weebly site and just get more backlinks?

Would appreciate any help.

Thanks.