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Five Essential Steps to Removing a Google Manual Penalty
This is a guest contribution from Nick Chowdrey. Google takes webspam very seriously. The search giant currently sends over 400,000 messages a month to webmasters, warning them that their site performance could be at risk due to a manual Google penalty. But what exactly are these manual penalties, and what can you do should you receive one of these notifications? Number of manual penalties issued per month. Via Google.com. Google’s webspam team is split into two divisions: algorithmic and manual. The algorithmic team focus on improving Google’s automatic algorithm modifiers, such as Panda, which deals with spammy content and Penguin, which deals with artificial backlinks. The manual team consists of Google analysts over multiple countries who sift through domains looking for blackhat SEO practices – specifically, buying
Tracking The Progress Of My Hardest Hit Fund Program Application
(Almost) Everyone knows about the housing crash that ruined many peoples’ lives and help throw the country into an economic tailspin. Lots of people are aware of the government’s Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP) and Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) that came from that financial ruin. Few people have heard of the Hardest Hit Fund, which was for all intents and purposes a “bail-out” for the states that were…you guessed it!…the hardest hit by the housing crash. I happened to stumble upon the site and said “what the fuck, I qualify so let’s see what happens”. Here’s the backstory: I purchased my home at the end of ’06 which apparently was pretty much the top of the market. 2
