Toxic Backlinks After the August 2026 Spam Update: Audit, Disavow, or Leave Alone
Corey Batt
Google rolled out its August 2026 spam update between August 18 and August 21, and…
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Toxic Backlinks After the August 2026 Spam Update: Audit, Disavow, or Leave Alone
Google rolled out its August 2026 spam update between August 18 and August 21, and the impact was bigger than a two-and-a-half-day rollout would suggest. Third-party tracking showed top-10 pages getting wiped out of the top 100 at nearly double the normal rate. If you manage links for clients, you already know what happened next: … Continued
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Local Citation Building: How to Build, Audit, and Fix Citations for Maps and AI Local Search
You’ve probably searched Yelp for a new restaurant or checked a directory to find a plumber who answers the phone. The businesses that show up in those places didn’t land there by accident, and neither did the ones Google Maps recommends when you ask it a question. That’s local citation building: getting your business’s name, … Continued
Link Building
Enterprise Link Building at Scale: Governance, Velocity, and Quality Control Across Large Sites
Enterprise link building fails for a different reason than small-site link building fails. A small site usually fails because it can’t get enough links. A large site usually fails because it gets links from too many directions at once, with nobody owning the rules. We’ve seen it play out the same way across ecommerce catalogs, … Continued
Link Building
HARO Link Building in 2026: HARO Is Back, and It Still Won’t Carry Your Links
If you searched for HARO link building in the last two years, you got three different answers depending on the date of the article. HARO is dead. HARO is back. HARO was never HARO, it was Connectively, and that’s dead too. Here’s the thing: all three were true at some point, and most of the … Continued
Entity SEO
Entity SEO and Knowledge Graph Optimization: How to Become a Brand Google and AI Search Recognize
Type your brand name into ChatGPT and ask what it does. If the answer is vague, wrong, or describes a different company with a similar name, you’ve just found the most expensive gap in your SEO strategy. Not a keyword gap. An identity gap. The systems that decide what gets surfaced, whether that’s Google’s Knowledge … Continued
Technical SEO
Internal Linking Architecture for Crawl Efficiency and Authority Flow
Most internal linking advice stops at counting. How many links per page, how many words between them, whether four is better than six. That advice isn’t wrong, it’s just aimed at a single blog post. And if you’re running a site with 10,000 pages, or 100,000, or a catalog that spins up filtered URLs faster … Continued
Guest Posting
Guest Posting Services: How to Vet Sites, Score Relevance, and QA Every Placement
Most people buy guest posts the same way. Filter a list by Domain Rating, sort by price, pick the cheapest thing above DR 50, and hope. Then a few months later they’re looking at a backlink profile full of placements that never moved a ranking, never sent a visitor, and never got cited anywhere. The … Continued
Link Building
Casino Link Building and Grey Niche SEO: A Risk-Managed Playbook
If you run SEO for a casino, a sportsbook, a crypto exchange, a CBD brand, or an adult site, you know the pattern. You try to buy ads and hit a certification wall. You pitch a publisher and never hear back. Then you find a vendor who says yes to everything, takes your money, and … Continued
SEO Content Writing
SEO Content Writing in 2026: How to Engineer Content for Citation, Not Just Ranking
Ranking used to be the finish line. You hit position three, the clicks showed up, and the post paid for itself. That deal has changed. Answers now sit on top of the results, and a large share of searches end without anyone visiting a website at all. Your page can be the source an AI … Continued
YMYL Vertical
Law Firm SEO: Building Authority in a YMYL Vertical
Nobody browses for a lawyer. Somebody searching “personal injury attorney near me” at 11pm has a police report on the kitchen table and a deadline they only half understand. Somebody searching “how to file for divorce in Texas” is in the worst week of their year. These are not casual queries, and Google treats them … Continued
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With Google constantly adapting the search algorithm it means you not only need to be thinking about what are the best SEO practices right now but also, you need to keep an eye on where Google seems to be heading. For example, as a community, weâve known that mobile first indexing was going to … Continued
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SEO experts agree that improving your internal link structure will boost your rankings in Google. What exactly are Internal links? They are a form of hyperlinks that point to pages on the same domain. These types of links are different from external links, which backlink to pages on other domains. Instead, internal links go to other … Continued
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Are your in-house marketing campaigns failing to achieve your goals for business growth? Then youâll likely find more success if you outsource your marketing to a professional agency. After all, marketing activities are time-consuming and demand a lot of resources, which is a lot to contend with for small-to-medium-sized businesses. Even larger businesses sometimes choose … Continued
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You may have heard that infographic can be a great tool for SEOâĻ five years ago. But their usefulness is still very powerful today, if you know what youâre doing with them. We ran a poll in the Affiliate SEO Mastermind Facebook group, asking members how they are utilizing infographics in todayâs SEO landscape. The … Continued
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