I don't think it would help - as you pointed out, pages are already in G's index. Disallowing crawler access to those pages (that are responding with 404 anyway) won't re...

Where are related videos on that page? I can't see any.

Thank you, I guess what I ought to do is set the robots.txt to just disallow anything /?p*, since the pages aren't really there but Google has indexed the query string-ve...

Focus on content and you'll get backlinks! I used to write on my own but then we hired an agency and there's a rise in our backlinks! // no promo links in posts please

Make it a nofollow link. You can do with webmasters!

Black hat SEO refers to the use of aggressive SEO strategies, techniques and tactics that focus only on search engines and not a human audience, and usually does not obey...

Hi Chris, welcome to SEO Forum! Main question here is: did the whole hack thing affect SE ranks/traffic in any way? You didn't mention it, so my best guess is that it did...

If you want to change your domain from "your-domain.com" to "yourdomain.com" permanently, then you should use 301 redirections. Or, you can mark your...

@tomaskonovak serving fishy content to crawlers while having nothing on the site for real visitors seems to be pretty common blackhat practice that still works in G's mar...

Here are the most common black hat SEO things Google penalizes for: keyword stuffing exchange and purchase of backlinks automatic content generation cloaking fraudulent...