The Penguin Update and Requests for Link Removals

Recent Google Penguin Update – Who Cares

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So there has been a recent Google algorithm Penguin update that is supposed to penalize sites if they have links from questionable sites or sites that contain content that is not relevant to the link. But wait, there are 100,000 sites that have been doing link building for the past 10 years that have these kinds of links. So Google is going to penalize 100,000 sites? Probably not. And what if your competition places links like this one on some site that you don’t want, didn’t request, and … Read more at Free Business Cards

More Ways to Get Links to Your Website

If you’re working on search engine optimization to promote your website, getting links is a very important part of this process. To Bing and Google, links count as a vote for the importance and popularity of your site, making it appear higher up in their search results. This can make a big difference to your visitor numbers, so getting links to your website is important.

Directories specifically offer links to websites, usually in context so that you can provide some promotional or informative text about them as well. Sometimes these will also allow you to choose your anchor text, which … Read more at Free Business Cards