Marie Haynes - Latest Comments

Re: Don’t fall for small business SEO scams

Marie Haynes — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 16:51:00 -0000

Thanks Sonya. Sending from a gmail address is always a red flag for me. I'm glad that my post helped!

Re: Don’t fall for small business SEO scams

Marie Haynes — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 12:51:07 -0000

Thanks Sonya. Sending from a gmail address is always a red flag for me. I'm glad that my post helped!

Re: Don’t fall for small business SEO scams

Sonya — Sat, 27 Jun 2015 13:27:00 -0000

Thanks for posting this as the last one I got seemed semi-genuine but the name is different for the same Skype Name. I have noticed that a lot are from Gmail accounts and always wonder why they don't write from their domain which to me seems dodgy. It's so easy for people to be caught out.

Re: Don’t fall for small business SEO scams

Sonya — Sat, 27 Jun 2015 09:27:04 -0000

Re: Here is what Google says about footer links and penalties.

Annonces services à domicile — Tue, 23 Jun 2015 17:46:00 -0000

Good post ;)

Re: My response to Link Research Tool's report on cashlady.co.uk

Ducktoes — Wed, 10 Jun 2015 04:23:00 -0000

I agree. I used a link removal service but found that it recommended removing links I already knew about and was removing already or links I wouldn't remove because they were natural links. Or no follow links. It wasn't useful at all.

Re: My response to Link Research Tool’s report on cashlady.co.uk

Ducktoes — Wed, 10 Jun 2015 00:23:01 -0000

Re: Apparently you can tell if a link has been disavowed. So I did some experiments...

Andy Kuiper - SEO Analyst — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 16:10:00 -0000

Good, and interesting info re: disavowed links - thanks :-)

Re: Apparently you can tell if a link has been disavowed. So I did some experiments…

Andy Kuiper - SEO Analyst — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 12:10:50 -0000

Good, and interesting info re: disavowed links - thanks :-)

Re: My review of Moz’s spam tool. I ran some tests and here is what I found…

Capital Stars — Fri, 24 Apr 2015 10:53:00 -0000

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Re: Google Webmaster Central Hangout - March 24, 2014

Jérôme Verstrynge — Tue, 14 Apr 2015 17:12:00 -0000

For those who are interested, more summaries of John Muller's google webmaster central hangouts are available here: https://ligatures.net/conte...

Re: Manual Spam Actions Viewer not showing that your penalty is lifted?

Marie Haynes — Fri, 10 Apr 2015 14:38:00 -0000

This sounds like a case where your penalty expired. I've seen it happen quite a few times now. Here is more information: http://searchenginewatch.co...

Re: Manual Spam Actions Viewer not showing that your penalty is lifted?

Marie Haynes — Fri, 10 Apr 2015 10:38:59 -0000

This sounds like a case where your penalty expired. I've seen it happen quite a few times now. Here is more information: http://searchenginewatch.co...

Re: Manual Spam Actions Viewer not showing that your penalty is lifted?

Zeshan Ahmer — Fri, 10 Apr 2015 06:47:00 -0000

Hey Marie,
1 Question before some days I updated the disavow as i got a message of partial matches for one of my client. I received the message of successfully uploading the disavow, and after a week now when i am checking Manual spam I found prompt "No manual webspam action found", however didn't received any message of getting revoked from google.
What i should consider?
Thanks

Re: Manual Spam Actions Viewer not showing that your penalty is lifted?

Zeshan Ahmer — Fri, 10 Apr 2015 02:47:16 -0000

Re: Your traffic drop may not be because of a penalty! Complete list of reasons for your traffic to drop.

Marie Haynes — Mon, 06 Apr 2015 14:15:00 -0000

Hi Karthik. I'd have to spend time digging in to say for sure, but the first place I would look would be to see if you had issues with Panda. Where are you getting your recipes from? Are you uploading 15 unique and helpful recipes each month? Or are these aggregated from another source. If you're using material that people can find elsewhere, then this is a very common Panda factor.

Re: Your traffic drop may not be because of a penalty! Complete list of reasons for your traffic to drop.

Marie Haynes — Mon, 06 Apr 2015 10:15:36 -0000

Re: Your traffic drop may not be because of a penalty! Complete list of reasons for your traffic to drop.

Karthik — Fri, 03 Apr 2015 13:02:00 -0000

Hi,

Thank you for your great information. My site is www.thamilvirundhu.com and started before 11 months. I have uploaded nearly 300 recipes, but got only 35000 visits / month. I have been uploading 15 recipes per month. There is neither decrease nor increase in traffic for the past 8 months. It is not ranked by http://www.trafficestimate.... because of not enough data. ( but the sites which have even 20000 visits/month are ranked in it. My site's visit is 35000). I have checked all the above possible causes you mentioned here. What would be the reason ? Thank you in advance.

Re: Your traffic drop may not be because of a penalty! Complete list of reasons for your traffic to drop.

Karthik — Fri, 03 Apr 2015 09:02:13 -0000

Hi,

Re: My review of Moz’s spam tool. I ran some tests and here is what I found…

Jacques Bouchard — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 16:11:00 -0000

I ran it on several sites that I happen to know had a manual spam penalty, and one of them scored more than a 2/17.

Re: My review of Moz’s spam tool. I ran some tests and here is what I found…

Jacques Bouchard — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 12:11:42 -0000

I ran it on several sites that I happen to know had a manual spam penalty, and one of them scored more than a 2/17.

Re: My review of Moz’s spam tool. I ran some tests and here is what I found…

Marie Haynes — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 00:24:00 -0000

Thanks so much Cyrus. I know that Moz has worked hard on this tool and I certainly don't want to belittle that work. I can see that I actually could use the tool in my auditing process.

Again, my concern is that it is made very obvious that the tool is not to be used in the place of a full manual link audit.

But then again, considering that that's my main line of business, perhaps I am biased. :)

Re: My review of Moz’s spam tool. I ran some tests and here is what I found…

Cyrus Shepard — Tue, 31 Mar 2015 23:16:00 -0000

Hi Marie,

Thank you for writing it as Moz is always open to feedback - even "hard" feedback. We're a big, diverse family with different points of views, and the Moz community has definitely benefited from your expertise and contributions We learn from each other, and I consider you a valuable part of the community. Discussion is always welcome, and even necessary. Looking forward to further conversations and collaborations with you!

Disclaimer: While I work for Moz, I can't speak for them on this particular
subject as others who worked on this particular feature are better
suited. That said, I can tell you that we take feedback like this very seriously.

Cheers!

Re: My review of Moz’s spam tool. I ran some tests and here is what I found…

Marie Haynes — Tue, 31 Mar 2015 20:24:24 -0000

Thanks so much Cyrus. I know that Moz has worked hard on this tool and I certainly don't want to belittle that work. I can see that I actually could use the tool in my auditing process.

Again, my concern is that it is made very obvious that the tool is not to be used in the place of a full manual link audit.

But then again, considering that that's my main line of business, perhaps I am biased. :)

Re: My review of Moz’s spam tool. I ran some tests and here is what I found…

Marie Haynes — Tue, 31 Mar 2015 19:59:00 -0000

Thanks Paul. I am thinking that if Moz made it more clear that the tool was not made to be used to replace manual reviews, it would be so much better.

I have not tested whether the links that are missing are not in the Moz index, but I am guessing that that's what is indeed happening.