The latest link building scam. Discovered and analyzed
Last week I received the worst link building email in 14 years. Scammers combined with AI. What exactly was it about?
Author: Zdenek Dvorak
Doing SEO for 13 years. Links, on-page, you name it. I love tool of all kinds. More about me here.
Robots Exclusion Checker for Chrome quickly detects accessibility and indexing issues
One of my favorite Chrome extensions nicely solves a problem that is right at the beginning of success in SEO. The URL needs to be accessible for bots and have indexing enabled in the header. While with other extensions you have to click to get results, with this extension everything happens automatically, plus the extension…
Emojipedia blocked access to their site in robots.txt. Fail story?
Emojipedia, the large emoji-providing site, has just committed SERP visibility suicide. They changed their robots.txt file to an absolute “Disallow” for all user agents after August 9th, 2023.
SEO Minion extension is now only for paying users. Which are the best and free alternatives?
A very popular SEO extension SEO Minion is changing its approach to users. Now you can use it only if you are a paying user of a service called Keywords Everywhere. I am not and will not be at least for noiw. What SEO extension should you use from now on?
December 2022 Link spam update at Google. What does it mean for link building?
Google changes its systems countless times a year. While it keeps quiet about the vast majority of updates, it regularly informs us about the more significant ones and their focus. And so, on 14 December 2022, we knew that an update to combat link spam was in the works. The deployment was completed on 12/01/2023….
“In the press” is a link building tactic that simply works
Today I have prepared a tip for you on a neat link building tactic. I have been using it sucessfully for years and the number of opportunities is generally in the hundreds of thousands of pages. Are you curious?
How many links will I need to rank for a query in Google?
A very common question that – as often in SEO – has no clear answer. How many links do I need to get to get into the top 10 in Google? Tere are a few ways how you can get at least a rough idea. Let’s take a look at them.
How to read a new crawling report in the Google Search Console
I have been analyzing access logs for a long time. Knowing where, when and how often Googlebot goes is the key to SEO success, especially for large sites. Until recently, Google was stingy on this information, and we only learned how quickly it downloaded one URL (the key thing), how many events happened per day,…
How to evaluate domain´s authority for link prospecting
There are various approaches to see the strength of a domain for link building. I even remember the old Toolbar Page Rank. Currently, many use external metrics like Domain Rank, MOZ Rank or any other 3rd party rank. These metrics mostly suck! There are better data available that come (almost) straight from Google!
My deck from SEO Zraz 2020 event in Bratislava
I was one of the speakers on Monday in Bratislava (SK), where a 2nd edition of SEO Sraz 2020 took place.