Category: Blog
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Google Penguin Explained: How Link Spam Filtering Works Today
Google Penguin is the part of Google’s ranking system that targets link spam, unnatural link schemes built to manipulate rankings rather than earned editorially. It launched as a standalone algorithm…
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Disavow Backlinks? What Reddit Actually Says
Reddit’s consensus on disavowing backlinks is consistent: ignore spammy links unless you have a manual penalty or a clear negative-SEO attack.
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Sitewide Links: How to Audit Footer and Blogroll Links
A sitewide link appears in the same spot on every page of a referring site, most often the footer, a sidebar widget, or a blogroll. Here is how Google actually…
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How to Get Backlinks: A Beginner’s Guide to Your First 50 Links
A four-stage roadmap to your first backlinks: claim what you’re owed, build on relationships you already have, publish something worth citing, then run targeted outreach for the rest.
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Link Velocity: How Fast Should You Gain Backlinks?
Link velocity has no fixed safe rate. What matters to Google is link quality and pattern, not raw speed. This post explains what a spike actually signals and how to…
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Backlink Benefits: Why Backlinks Still Matter for SEO
Backlinks still shape Google rankings, crawling, and referral traffic, but their weight has shifted toward quality over volume. Here’s what changed.
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How to Get Backlinks: The Tactics Reddit Actually Recommends
The backlink tactics r/SEO and r/juststart actually recommend: linkable assets, digital PR, competitor analysis, and niche link exchanges.
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Are Paid Links Against Google’s Guidelines? The Link Scheme Rules
Paid links violate Google’s guidelines only when they pass ranking credit unmarked. Here’s what counts as a paid link, the rel=sponsored fix, and the risk of getting caught.
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Buying Backlinks: What Reddit Really Thinks
Reddit is close to unanimous that cheap bulk links are spam, split on paying for quality placements, and clear that Google’s guidelines govern both.
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Backlink Gap Analysis: Find the Links Your Competitors Have and You Don’t
A backlink gap analysis compares your referring domains against competitors’ to find sites that link to them but not to you.