The TMO Blog

Actions To Take Against Negative SEO and Link Spam

,
The SEO industry has two groups - one 'value' group and the other 'numbers' group. Former uses quality and latter uses buying links, spamming etc to gain page ranks. Google's Penguin update discouraged number strategists by compelling adherence…

Internet Marketing Options For Dentists

,
Does internet marketing for dentists really matter? It absolutely does and doesn't have to cost a dime! Start by claiming all of the free social media profiles, then decide if you want to pay for premiums site and placement in search engines.…

Google Warnings Are Apparently Now Safe To Ignore

,
Google has progressively been warning sites about bad links. It appears that now they can just ignore them. In April, the Google Penguin Update was released. Sites with bad links could be punished in various ways, such as the site having less…

Some Link Directories Charging For Link Removals

,
There have been notifications sent to sites by Google for unnatural links. Google is making people think they must remove unnatural links and doing so very fervently. Some sites are now charging people to remove those links. There are options…

Some Company Efforts to Remove Backlinks Are Unusual

,
Gaurdlex, an SEO security company has demanded that a blog cease and desist relations with a client who is charged with illegal action. They claim that Gaurdlex is losing money because the blog is costing them penalty fees from search engines…

Is Google Causing the Death of SEO, Rise of Social Media?

,
Google is on the cusp of the latest technology and some think they are about to put the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) industry out of business. Google wants to make sure users get the most relevant content at their fingertips, so they are…

Google and Paid Inclusion – Are They Following FTC Rules?

,
The article in question was about search engines and how they are undermining the FTC's guildlines in relation to "Paid Inclusion", specifically, Google. It was also mentioned that the author of the article (Danny Sullivan) wrote to the FTC…

SEO is More Than Keyword Targeting, Some Learn the Hard Way

Many SEO companies know that sometimes their clients have in mind that they must rank for a specific keyword. No other options are acceptable for them. And even though you try to tell them that ranking for that keyword will take a great amount…

Major Spam Bot Named Grum Taken Down

, ,
Security researchers at FireEye and SpamHaus have shut down a botnet called Grum whose servers were mainly in Panama, Russia and Ukraine. The people controlling the botnet quickly worked to move the command and control servers to secondary…