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Monday, February 17, 2014

Letter to Google on Search Ranking Choice!

We appreciate the webmaster tools improvement and developments but regardless the transparency.


(1) Can you show us why the competitor’s sites are ranking well even though my site is better when compared in all ways?

(Please don’t say it's because of domain age. Since we are in the industry we know the market share and the truth. The insight would help us to work on the site fixes.)

(2) Can you show a sample list of spam or poor quality backlinks other than mentioned in the manual action review request?

(3) Can you mention the algorithm update in webmaster tools that caused the traffic drop?

(We know that can be noticed from analytics or from search queries data. Suppose if you update 2 or more algorithm in consecutive weeks, the guess would be broad)

(4) Suppose my competitor hires a team to build my site links with bunch of spam and poor quality links, what would be the result after an algorithm update? I need to find those links to disavow and wait?

(5) WMT links to the site shows old data. This is a common issue raised by everybody. Suppose we removed links from spam sites and used disavow tool, how do we know that you have reviewed those updates and our disavow links did not make any sense?

(6) How do you expect more natural link juice for a commercial site with an age of 1 year old or 5 years old compared to 10 years old site or brand site?

(Do you really validate brand sites or is it something undercover?)

(In some case the 1 year or 5 years old site would be more preferred by users when compared to 10 years old site. Small or medium sized business need to be given a chance)

(7) Can you show the website search engine guidelines score compared to industry best website score?

(8) What if you feel that the site has quality less content / duplicate content and are supposed to be quality content to our knowledge. Can you show some samples?

Let Google shuffle the results, collect the data and show the results as users prefer.

Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Disavow.txt Smart Code Report to Disavow Spammy Or Low-Quality Links

You need to make sure about the links to be disavowed. The main factor is about low-quality & spammy links those points to the site. The process need to be carried out only if you think the links that are to be mentioned are causing issues to your site's online presence.

# This Disavow Report was created on Date, year (Today) for domain.com
# This report includes links of 2 prior reports submitted on Month Date, Month Date
# This report also contains new data added today, Month Date

# We have request webmaster to remove our links from their domain. The links from the following domain were cleaned up

domain:1xyz.com
domain:2xyz.com
domain:3xyz.com
http://spam.abc.com/article/comments.html

# The webmaster did not respond. The links from the following domain were not cleaned up

domain:1abc.com
domain:2abc.com
domain:3abc.com

# The below blogspot has differnt ccTLDs. We assume Google will apply disavow to all ccTLDs.

domain:xyz.blogspot.com

Customize the disavow text with links as per your requirements. The above format will help Google guys to understand easily. Here Domain: refers to the entire set of links in the domain and the specific link refers itself.

Go to disavow tool by logging using Google webmaster owner account and upload disavow.txt file. You're done. Wait for the changes to happen!