As site owners have become fully aware they can make a full-time income JUST from selling links, the quality bar has never been lower. 

But with these link farms becoming more and more difficult to spot, how can you keep your link profile clean and avoid the risk of a Google penalty as a result?

#293 - How To Spot TOXIC Links & Avoid Google Penalties

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Let’s face it.
Google is probably never going to be the same easy traffic source it has always been. You won’t be able to solely rely on Google traffic to run an online business anymore, if that’s what you’re used to. So the question a lot of people are asking now is: 
What now? 

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As we come to the end of the March 2024 Core update, many things have changed in the Google landscape, and it’s time to start looking at where we landed.

To help navigate these changes, we wanted to bring a guest that’s out in the trenches every day - prominent and very opinionated character in the industry, Lily Ray 

#334 - March Core Update Analysis with Lily Ray

RTINGS.com is one of the most successful product review sites of all time. Despite 'only' having a DR 75 domain and competing against sites like PCMag, Tech Radar, New York Times, the Wire Cutter, and CNET (all DR 90+ sites), they have over 4 million monthly organic visits. 

So how exactly did they pull this off?

In this week’s episode, Mark sits down Pauline Duthiel, Head of Digital Marketing at RTINGS.com to take a look behind the scenes at what SEO looks like at one of the world's most loved review sites - and it was nothing like we expected.
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A special thanks to our sponsors for this episode, Digital PR and link building solution, BuzzStream:
https://www.buzzstream.com/link-building
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Full show notes:
https://www.authorityhacker.com/podcasts/the-secret-to-rtings-seo-success/

#333 - The Secret to RTINGS.com's SEO Success

Google just released a fat core update and all the rules you know about SEO are about to change again. As Google has already started de-indexing what they deem to be low quality sites, content auditing has never been more important. 

It's the process that might save you from an extinction event during the next update, or could resurrect your site if you've already been affected. Plus, it's the only process that's consistently shown results for websites affected by previous large updates like Panda, medic, spam and core updates.

So in this episode, we dive into what this latest core update means for SEO practices, and break down exactly what you need to do to curate content that will keep Google - and you - happy.
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A special thanks to our sponsors for this episode, Digital PR Agency, Search Intelligence.
https://search-intelligence.co.uk/ 
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Full show notes:
https://www.authorityhacker.com/podcasts/4-proven-steps-to-beat-google-updates/

#332 - 4 PROVEN Steps To Beat Google Updates

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