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    Negative SEO and Manual Penalties

    March 25, 2014 - By Nancy McCord

    It can happen to the very best of sites managed with white hat SEO as in this case study found on the MOZ blog; Google smacks your organic placement down and you can’t even find your business name in a search on Google.com. Usually this type of severe penalty is…

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    The Clarity of What You Write Matters a Lot

    March 13, 2014 - By Nancy McCord

    Matt Cutts has some great words of wisdom for bloggers and website owners in this video on how technical you should get in content and blog posts. You can watch the video at YouTube. In a nutshell, here are the takeaways on this important topic. 1. Clarity of what you write…

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    Does Google Love or Hate Links in Their Ranking Algorithm?

    March 4, 2014 - By Nancy McCord

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    Building Links Using Article Directories is a Dead Strategy

    February 13, 2014 - By Nancy McCord

    Creating articles that were informational in nature with links back to your website in a bio and placing these on news sites, article directories, and ezine sites for use by other webmasters on their blogs and in their websites in a way to build incoming links is just another previously…

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