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Google Pirate (DMCA) Penalty Will get Stronger & Catches Redirects

Google sent a document to the US Copyright Office that explains how Google’s DMCA update (aka the Pirate update) has been strengthened by (1) catching redirect schemes and (2) a site hit by this emotion on average sees a 89% drop in Google search traffic. I spotted this via Glenn Gabe on Twitter via TorrentFreak.com. […]

Unhealthy hyperlinks within the FAQ schema can earn you a Google penalty

Some time ago an SEO asked John Mueller from Google whether “Link to an external page from the FAQ scheme of a discount / voucher page?” John replied “sure”. I think if the link violates google webmaster guidelines then of course there is some manual action you can take. Here are these tweets: Secure – […]