I dont know if it just me or people are just not figuring out why using tools like SER now wont work. This is simple guys, dont you thinks that google do not know how to detect a link coming from an spammy site and devaluated the juice from that site ?, the pattern are so easy to program in an algo...
1) sites got trillion OBL
2) most of its article are themed to spammy queries
3) gets hundred of auto genereted content every day (google does know how to detect it.., want a test?, put some giberrish content with some adsense ads in it and see what happens)
4) the domain probably is on some noob's disavow list
Google on this updated adjusted some links value on their algo... they devaluated links from web 2.0 that have litte to not moderation on them like fizzlive, xfire etc. Also why in the world would google valuate links from web 2.0 freshly created with less that 5 article, not social movement but then magically got hundred of hundred of backlinks pointing to them? thats a clear sign of spam and its easy to detect as it's whats every mom and their son is doing atm, why in the world would google gives some value to a link like that?. Another thing i noticed on this update is that EMD and PMD got devaluated even further. I think the key to rank know truely relay on having links that nobody can get that easy, thats why PBN are working flawless at the moment, thats why they will continue to work no matter what.
Link list seller killed the fun for all GSA SER users, when one of these list get released sites get hammered like there is not tomorrow there goes to the anus your beloved link that took your time to scrape it and 2-3 month later is on one of these ser list.
Another thing that is always a key to my success is not having my website on some shit host like Godaddy. Do a reverse IP check on your domain ip? Do you have 1000 websites showing on the same IP for that server? why would Google consider your website quality if you don't, because you pay $4.99 a month for hosting.
I will not ever try to seo a site that doesn't have a dedicated IP, or at least < 15 sites on the same IP. All the major companies do it, and if I"m going to be successful, I'm mimicking as much of what they do as I can
Your sites speed is VERY important, and more so now than ever. Every little thing counts, if you have a slow loading website, forget about it, fix that first. I always recommend using a cloud front network, personally I use amazon S3 and amazon cloud, google can tell you're using that when they crawl your page, that makes your website look like it's higher quality.
The sites I have that are on my dedicated servers (I do hosting so I rent my own servers) have not been hit one smidgen by this update.
I always use premium quality theme forest templates when making my websites, google can also detect the footprint of these templates, and not some cheap free shit from Wordpress, and definitely not nulled trash that contains back links to the person that nulled it. Do major companies use free templates or do they have their own designed? Theme forest is a good medium.
All my sites are all amazon cloudfront enabled, they all are wordpress sites using theme forest templates, and not a single one of them got dinged by this update. I was directly linking to them with GSA too.
One more piece of advice Edit all some of the .dat files in the engines directory, like generic_anchor_text, there are some phrases in files like that, that are easy to detect as being GSA spam. Take out any word in there that doesn't sound like proper English and make sure the entire .dat file is proper English. Some of the stuff in there hasn't been updated in a while and I"m sure google can just penalize websites that have a certain combination of the spammier non proper English phrases, I can't give examples, because I cleaned hundreds of phrases out of those files when I first started doing this again.
Even better yet, open up these dat files, and put your own phrases in there, so that the only one using them is you.
Build your own network, but spread it out over various hosts. If all sites are on the same ip, it's useless, search for expired domains with legit PR, I just picked up an expired domain that had somewhat high DA/PA for $8.99, only costs another $4.99 to make it a private .com if you're an enom resller ( I believe that's what I pay), so you can buy high DA sites for under $20 each, throw up some wordpress sites on each of them, and fill it with some content that you write, it it sit for a while see if it sticks.
I also use waybackmachine when i'm searching for domains, all I have to do is find a domain that has a waybackmachine copy, download the entire website from wayback machine, and then strip out the links wayback machine embeds in the code, throw that website up, and it'll retain 100% of it's DA/PR etc, and then i'll slowly change it over time.
As I thought, no knee-jerk reaction and most of my sites are rocketing back up. Stupid filter. Two sites need new domains I think, but gonna hold off doing anything for a few weeks. Link-building even more now, as if you remember last November, this is when you can really pound your link profiles and make up huge ground on those that get scared and stop link-building after an update.
You guys do realize that people who really know how to dominate the search results and hide from competitors snooping around.
Just adjust there robots.txt file to show you what they want.. Spam clearly ranks very well. Even sites with lots of porn and viagra links seem to be ranking in fairly decent niches.
I really dont know what all the fuss is about. Don't listen to anything google tells you. They tell you what they want for their search results to be how they want them not whats good for your business.
They have no idea how to adjust there results they cannot afford to show results they want it would screw everything up. Spam will always rank fast and a little less spam will always rank longer
But yes if you are using poorly spun content pointing at your site and building 10,000 links a day don't wonder why you dont rank.
I always use quality content.. It takes a whole 5 minutes to create content that better then most peoples websites. There is over 10 different options to import content into gsa.
How much does it really cost for good content? Not much! Thats my take
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Just adjust there robots.txt file to show you what they want.. Spam clearly ranks very well. Even sites with lots of porn and viagra links seem to be ranking in fairly decent niches.
I really dont know what all the fuss is about. Don't listen to anything google tells you. They tell you what they want for their search results to be how they want them not whats good for your business.
They have no idea how to adjust there results they cannot afford to show results they want it would screw everything up. Spam will always rank fast and a little less spam will always rank longer
I always use quality content.. It takes a whole 5 minutes to create content that better then most peoples websites. There is over 10 different options to import content into gsa.
How much does it really cost for good content? Not much! Thats my take