there are lot of ways to recover from penality , remove bad links, give some quality links and then resubmit site.

@shane thanks for your answer. What exactly do you mean with 'preview image slug'? The URL when you click on the image?

Agree with @ms. Wordpress is bloated. Even if you have a perfect theme, perfectly optimized media, and the best hosting available, a lightweight CMS will outperform.

You should prioritize speed over the short-tern drop in traffic. If you really want to avoid that, change the preview image slug to match the full size slug. You won't br...

Post Quality Content. Use High Authority website for posting. Create Backlink always on the website which is higher than your website.

Issues I found so far: Blog Active Item in Navbar is wrong. Active should be on the item blog not feed. Leaderboard has several issues. Mobile Navbar is bad designed M...

In general I would say: Websites in the same niche which are not spam definitely increase your rank However much more important is your own content. If your site in gener...

It’s helpful to think of technical SEO as the foundation of your search engine optimization strategy. “Technical” just refers to all the base code and page structure that...

I would delete the post and give them a warning, 2nd offence would ban the profile. Maybe they would contribute in a more positive way in the future. Good idea, but thi...

Google Webmaster Tools is now called Google Search Console