Link Risk Management: Are You Using This Critical SEO Tactic?

Columnist Stephan Spencer warns that if you don’t regularly monitor your backlinks and proactively get rid of spammy ones, you could be risking it all.

 

old-bad-rust-links-ss-1920Over the past five years, Penguin is arguably the Google algorithm update that’s had the greatest impact on webmasters. Since Google launched the first Penguin update in April 2012, hundreds of thousands of sites around the world have been penalized and have virtually vanished from the Internet (or at least their traffic has).

Webmasters the world over scrambled to clean up dubious links pointing to their sites. Even after going through this stressful, time consuming, and oftentimes frustrating experience, webmasters continue to search for more efficient and effective ways to keep their websites from getting caught in Penguin’s crosshairs as Google continually re-defines what constitutes a “good” link…

Link Risk Management: Are You Using This Critical SEO Tactic?

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