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clean up your backlinks, you canthen approach Google using theirDisavow tool(https://www.google.com/webmasterlinks-main?pli=1).The disavow tool tells Google thatyou want these links ignored ANDthat you have tried to clean themup. There are no guarantees withthe disavow tool, but it is worth a gowhen you consider your final option- moving your site to a new domainand beginning the backlink processfrom scratch.There is a good article here thatdescribes one person’s positive
results using the disavow tool:http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/googlesdisavow-tool-works-penaltyremovalOther Specific thing to look outfor in your backlink profile1. Diverse IPs – Is there agood spread of IP addressesfor the pages that link to yourwebsite? A lot of links fromvery similar IP addresses mayindicate a blog network, orlinks from self-owneddomains.2. Lots of links from thesame domain could indicate
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An SEO ChecklistA step-by-step plan
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What People are Sayingabout this bo
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"Extremely useful informationfor an
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tested himself. This book is inline
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fitness for any particular purpose.
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ContentsWhat People are Saying abou
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Internal Linking of contentSite Str
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Checklist Point #9 - ContentQuality
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estateCheckpoint 3 - Site Structure
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Why this Book?I’ve already writte
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yourself and try to view yourwebsit
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hundreds or thousands of lowquality
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building) that were previouslytoler
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How to Use this BookI’ve divided
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If you like, you can work your wayt
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Guidelines," which outlinesome of t
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“illicit practices”?Here is a l
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extensively in backlinkingcampaigns
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backlinks. Google don’t even like
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pages”. These are poor qualitypag
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interlink your content if it helps
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We’ll look at some of the otherth
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Checklist Point #1 - TheDomain Name
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Google had finally decided to takea
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• Is the site specifically target
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Any of those phrases turned into an
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However, if I search the Way BackMa
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Notice the main header on the pageu
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Machine website. See if yourdomain
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video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?
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The Domain NameChecklist• EMD? If
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Checklist Point #2 -Web Page Real E
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of the poor user experience onthese
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would the remaining content beseen
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like Twitter, Facebook, Contact,Pri
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in the footer, especially keywordri
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A good test here is to ask a friend
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What if you could use Google’ssea
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rank for.NOTE: Site-wide links can
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the main navigation menu usuallylin
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navigation menu, but certainlysecti
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think in terms of how yournavigatio
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from a search engine perspective,li
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on your server for each of thesecon
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content related to those folders. S
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big clues about the content. Forexa
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1. Never use a word or phraseas bot
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Each of these links goes to another
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I’d make with internal linking is
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3. For any particular anchortext, m
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• If you have a large site, do yo
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Checklist Point #4 -CommentsVisitor
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so.If you already have a commentfor
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go through every singlecomment on y
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sole intention of getting a valuabl
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disguised.For example, a spammer mi
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favorite web hosting company(which
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Comments Checklist• Does your web
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Checklist Point #5 -Social Presence
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You can see how I have this setupon
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• Current special offers from you
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“Wow, this site must be good”.N
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displays how many Twitterfollowers
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Google knows that YOU arethe origin
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Let’s see how you can give yourvi
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essential list. It could be in thef
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You’ll see at the end of the Twee
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Google obviously monitor Googleplus
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• Setup Google Authorship for you
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a photo of a real person increasesc
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Do you see how Shane looks like are
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is in a resource box at the end ofe
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your site. It also gives you anoppo
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intermediary in the sales process,r
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as you only share qualityinformatio
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If your site is related to health o
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posted.• Bad reviews.• Poorly t
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• Is your business address displa
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Checklist Point #7 -Bounce Rates &
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on-site-bounce-rate-get-the-realnum
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rate, I am happy with this pagebeca
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content is good, maybe it’s just
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• Are visitors spending a long or
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might include things like cookiepol
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Legal Pages ChecklistNot all of the
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Checklist Point #9 -Content Quality
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content that people will wantto boo
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two from your web page and searchfo
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http://ezseonews.com/general/intern
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• Affiliate link disclaimer?If yo
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As you read your content, askyourse
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Fluff rating is a term I use with m
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websites that outsource theirconten
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A sitemap is a great way to checkyo
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This website has an article on“ro
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What about these two pages foundon
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similar reasons. Google hastraditio
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humans.While we are on the topic of
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somewhere. Now press CTRL+A(command
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Example of bad internallinkingInter
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your site using contextual links, t
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One final example on this site isth
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and not automated tools to do yourS
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have largely been removed, and that
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(like it still makes good income or
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in the footer, especially keywordri
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most potentially damaging.• If yo
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Checkpoint 4 -Comments• Does your
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Checkpoint 5 - Socialpresence• Do
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Checkpoint 6 - Wouldyou Trust this
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grammatical errors. Check yournavig
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• Are visitors spending a long or
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• Do you have an email policy pag
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websites. If it has, you need toimp
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to remove a lot of fluff, perhaps t
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use them. These should not bekeywor
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Checkpoint 10 -Inbound link profile
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URL or title/headline of the articl
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reason to cross-link the sites,remo
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Andy Williams
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the Panda update. Panda wasdesigned
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October).Whereas Panda seems to pen
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Amazon UK(https://www.amazon.co.uk/
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in our history, an opportunity iskn
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book, I published my first Kindlebo
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specifically need to know.I see eno
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Building a website was once thedoma
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step of your journey in great detai
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CSS for BeginnersLearn CSSwithdetai
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* The Float property* Units of Leng
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A basic knowledge of HTML isrecomme
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CreatingFatContent.com, where Ibuil
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