2. Why some sites got effected due to
update?
Paid text links using exact match anchor text.
Comment spam.
Guest posts on questionable sites.
Article marketing sites.
Links from dangerous sites.
3. Steps to Recover Website from
Google Penalty
First analyze your backlinks using online tools like Ahrefs, Open
Site Explorer etc.
Make a list of low quality links (PR 0, low DA) and send a
request to site owner to remove that link.
List down remaining links and disavow them using Google's
Disavow Link Tool.
Start posting original content on your blog.
Edit old incomplete posts to add more worth to them and make
them alive.
Provide links to reference sites where necessary.
Use Anchor text diversity
Use same keyword in your link for which you want to improve visibility in
search results.
These types of anchor texts have some additional words with the exact
match anchor texts
These types of anchor texts have no any keyword in them.
Instead of using any keyword, you can use your blog/site URL
5. Strategic Approach
Look at the competitors backlinks & try to get link for our website from
same source
Create more of PR & brand citations
Do have variations in anchor text, Avoid Exact-Match Anchor Text
De-index poor-content, duplicates and pages that won’t be useful
Keep track of Number of unique linking root domains to the site/page
Increase your Social Presence – Google+, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube
etc.
Embed G+ buttons on projects pages
keep a balance between do follow and no follow links.
Make use of disavows tool of Google to remove irrelevant backlinks
Contents of each Social bookmarking, directory must be unique
Include The hreflang and canonical tags for multiple domain names for
multiple countries
Use Canonical Tags inside of the head tag and point to a valid page.
Add emotions feelings like ‘best’ and ‘worse’ to her blog posts
Fixing broken links promptly
6. How to find resources
These commands work on either Yahoo or
Microsoft Live Search, linkdomain:domain-to-
check.com site:.edu “resource”
linkdomain:domain-to-check.com site:.edu
“directory”
linkdomain:domain-to-check.com site:.edu
“bookmarks”
linkdomain:domain-to-check.com site:.edu “links”
linkdomain:domain-to-check.com site:.edu
“favorite”
For Google Try this:
link:sitename.com "link“
link:adglobal360.com “submit“
7. Things to Keep in Mind
Blog Commenting:
comment on the same niche blogs
Comment only on the do-follow blogs
Do not SPAM and always leave quality comment
Forum Commenting:
First of all do not SPAM your forum
Try to expand your discussion
Always try to be an active user on the forum
Try to join only on do-follow forums
Guest Blogging:
Write only high quality articles as an guest post
Beware of sites with low traffic
Attach your information about yourself to the guest post
Grammar check is must
Article Submission:
Always Share Genuine and Unique Articles Avoid Duplicate content Leave your website link on the documents
you published
Directory
Must be human edited and relevant
Use different anchor texts for backlinks, this will make your backlink profile more natural and safe
8. Website for Citation
Google+ Local AreaConnect HopStop MojoPages
Facebook Foursquare YellowMoxie Bundle
LinkedIn AmericanTowns Phonenumber.com Metromix
Yellowpages.com BizJournals
Best of the Web
Local Yellowbot
Yelp LocalGuides Yellowise Kudzu
Local.com 411.com GetFave ShowMeLocal
WhitePages.com Yellowpages.aol.com Tupalo ChamberofCommerce
Manta Insider Pages ZipLocal LocalPages
SuperPages MagicYellow EZLocal Topix
CitySearch Hotfrog.com CitySquares DexKnows
Patch Mojopages USCIty.net Yellow.com
City-Data Switchboard LocalDatabase BBB.org
MerchantCircle Demandforce Yahoo Local