Andre Weyher, a former member of Google's web spam team, has given an interview in which he reveals several things that can be useful if you want to improve your search engine optimization campaign.
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Most people go through the following five phases when their website has been penalized by Google:
On a new web page, Google shows live examples of web pages that have been removed from Google's index.
According to Google, "these pages are examples of 'pure spam.' They appear to use aggressive spam techniques such as automatically generated gibberish, cloaking and scraping content from other websites."
Since the dramatic Google Penguin update a few weeks ago webmasters and companies have been going crazy trying to clean up their backlink profiles. Instead of doing things to improve their web pages, some webmasters concentrate on removing backlinks that point to their site.
An online discussion on Webmasterworld.com shows the statement of Uli Lutz, who works for Google's search quality team in Germany.
A webmaster asked Uli if it was possible to accidentally hurt a friend or a good resource by including it in a disavow link report. The main statements of Uli Lutz are:
In a video on YouTube, the head of Google's anti-spam team Matt Cutts talked about negative SEO. Can other companies hurt your website rankings by spamming your site? What can you do to avoid this?
In an interview, former Google web-spam member Andre Weyher gave more information about the way Google detects web spam. The most important facts and statements can be found in this article.
Are you frustrated by Google's recent updates? Do you think that it is too difficult to get high rankings on Google? There's a simple six-step plan that will bring your website to the top of Google's search result pages.
Google's new disavow links tool is seen as the cure for all SEO problems by many webmasters. Should you use this tool? Are there any risks and does it make sense to invest your time in Google's disavow tool? Could this be a trick of Google?