How to Recover From a Google SEO Penalty

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  Quick Answer TL;DR Google SEO penalty recovery starts with figuring out whether you were hit with a manual action or an algorithmic penalty, since the fix is different for each. A manual action shows up as a message in Search Console and gets resolved by fixing the violation and submitting a reconsideration request. An […]

Link Building Myths That Are Hurting Your SEO

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  Quick Answer TL;DR Most of what businesses believe about link building is outdated or wrong, and acting on those beliefs actively hurts rankings. More backlinks are not automatically better, a high domain authority score does not guarantee traffic, guest posting on the wrong sites reads as spam, exact match anchor text can trigger penalties, […]