A complete and comprehensive guide on how to use Google Disavow Link Option

This is guest post by Michael Evans
So, your website has been tanked by the vicious penguin and even after giving your hundred percent to get rid of the spammy links that are making your website bleed, a vast majority of them remain there intact and making your feel totally helpless. But fear not dude, the disavow link is here and hopefully it is going to exonerate you from the sins of your past spammy marketing initiatives that might have probably cost you thousands of SEO dollars. Yeah, yeah it is not that easy otherwise we could have had innumerable number of success stories to share by now. As there is no such great news to relish, we can safely assume that not many people have got benefited from it but that does not necessarily mean that it is not that effective. Nope, probably you do not exactly know how and when to use it [no offense plz]. So, here it goes –

A Little bit of background story

There has been a bit of confusion surrounding the concept of Disavow Link. The building block of web is links; no amount of spam can undo this. So just because a search engine named Google has launched something called – Disavow Link, it does not mean that you should be giving less attention to acquiring links naturally and put all your efforts to monitor and police each and every link that comes along the way and get them down just to be in the good book of Google.

Actually, the concept of online marketing has been hijacked by some shrewd marketers who have been engaged in doing sneaky things to get to the top in some competitive keywords in no time. They were using bulk article submissions, article network sites, massive directory submission and other sneaky stuffs. So, Google has to intervene and now we have got penguin update. But as negative SEO is on the rise and as Google is working on the biggest ever penguin algo update [as news is doing the round], it launches Disavow Link option so that it can avoid the scathing criticism of the webmasters whose websites might be wrongly affected by the upcoming algo shuffle.
Who should be using this tool: As Google is reiterating the fact that this is an advance tool and average webmasters need not have to use this because if used wrongly, it could back fire. So, here are the few hypothetical situations when you should be thinking about giving the Disavow Link a try:

1. Your website has been manually penalized

It sucks when you receive a message in Google webmaster tool about violating Google’s policy or about Link Scheme. But do not jump at the gun at the sight of this message. This message only means that your website is manually checked by human quality raters at Google and they have raised their flag after checking the backlink profile of your website.

However, this does not mean that you need to remove all the links and turn the clock around. Nope, do not make such foolish thing because you will just be shooting yourself in the feet. You need to create a list as mentioned below:

URL	PR	Anchor text	Moz rank	Type	Content Quality
Example.com	2	Exact matched	20	blog	Poor quality
Socialbookmark.com	1	Long tail	30	Social bookmark	NA

Create an excel file just like above. Add column like – PR, anchor text, Type of website, quality of the content, number of outbound links, Moz etc. You are free to add more columns. When you are done with this you need to figure out which links are affecting your website and which links are adding value to your website. Try to remove as many bad links pointing to your website as possible before, you send a reconsideration request. When you are done with this, the time is up for the Disavow links option.

Select the website you want to apply this Disavow link option.


Click on the red button and it will then ask you to upload a txt file containing list of sites that you wish to disavow.


The format of the text is plain and simple. All you got to do is to create a txt file and it may look like the following -

#This is spammy website, I do want to disaow links coming from this site:
domain:littlespammywebsite.com

#This article directory sucks, I asked them to remove the links, but they did not

Text starting with # will be comment and Google will not be taken into consideration. If you wish to discard all the links coming from a single website, you can use the following parameter – domain:websitename.com .

Just make sure that you are keeping the file short. It should not be more than 2MB.

Just want to reterate that if your website is affected by manual penalty, you need to do both, try Disavow Link option and wait few weeks before sending another reconsideration request.

2. Your website is affected by penguin algorithm

If you saw that the traffic of your website took a plunge after a penguin refresh, you need to clean up the mess as much as possible. Do a background check of the links as I have mentioned above before using the Disavow link option. Since your website has got caught by algorithm update, you need to wait for weeks or probably for months until another penguin refresh goes live.

3. You are a victim of Negative SEO 

Sometimes, it might happen that your competitors are doing all they could to hamper the growth of your business. They may be doing sneaky things for your website like – spammy directory submissions, article submissions etc without your being aware of it. In that case, rather than wasting your time and money on trying to get rid of those links, you should be using this tool to make Google aware of the fact that you are not responsible for the crap links built by your competitors.
I am happy to share this information. Let me know how fare with these tips.

About Guest Blogger

Michael Evans is a passionate writer and he is a regular contributor of Site2You.com. He has written several articles on how to topics like - how to make a website etc in his writing career.

The Common Misconceptions about SEO

While Search Engine Optimization is riding the success wave almost everywhere on the internet,
there are more than enough misconceptions about SEO as well. Let’s separate fact from fiction.

1. Do it right once and that’s it

Simply put, SEO is using well placed phrases in the content of your website so as to get the best
rankings in search engines. Content is definitely key and any business or company needs to ensure
that its content is well written, cogent and dependable. But content is not the only thing and so to
write great content and sit back waiting for things to happen will not work in SEO. This is an ongoing
process and needs to be monitored regularly so that you can get more from the process.

2. More content, less design

While SEO does focus on great content, it is a misconception to think that you need to sacrifice
design and aesthetics to be more visible in a search engine. In fact SEO employs not just words
but many other aspects that you might use on the site to drive traffic your way. This could include
something as simple as menu design, the tabs on your website or even the shopping cart customers
use to store their purchase. The better designed your site, the better it is for you. Besides, good
content cannot make up for a confused and confusing website.

3. Pay per Click works better

One would imagine that the internet would be flooded with lot of information but not much quality
if the company that pays for key phrases has better visibility! Search engines do not care about how
much money you’ve spent but about what quality you deliver. Remember, search engines need to
benefit too! PPC works along with SEO and not as a substitute as SEO.

4. Links are overrated

Believe this misconception at your own peril! Links are important when you want the customers’
visit to your website to culminate in a sale. You have to spend time and effort building backlinks
and ensuring that the health of the links to and from your site is good at all times. Links are not
overrated and are instead valuable resources to help your business grow further.

5. The more the links, the better

If thinking that links are overrated is bad, then thinking that as many links as possible is the key to
good SEO is bad too. Flooding your website with links is counter-productive and only help to confuse
the customer. What you should look for instead is a well thought out bunch of workable links that do
an effective job for you.

6. The in-house technical team can handle SEO

Well this is a tricky one. It depends on how good your technical team is and how busy its members
are. Yes of course SEO is not tough to do because you need ‘simple’ things like ASP, PHP and C++
to program but SEO is not just programming. You need to design it well so it can do its job well. For

this, it is helpful to have a dedicated team of people focusing on it, exclusively.

Watch out for the rumors and half-truths and create SEO that is elegant and effective!

About Guest Blogger

Teyona Dame is a tech-lover and enjoys to write interesting topic about technology. She writes for xfinity and its services as well.

Why my guest post doesn't appear in SimplexDesign

In SimplexDesign blog, I always welcome bloggers who want to contribute content and giving value to readers . Guest blogger can place two links in the bio as an exchange to his contribution . When site grows , I receive more and more guest posting proposal everyday. But it doesn't mean all guest posts I received are good enough to publish. In this post, I will show you what need to do to make me publish your guest post :

1, Quality of content

It's the first thing that I concern when receive a guest post . As mentioned above, I only receive posts that give value to readers. It means readers must feel that they see something new after reading post. Content must be original and unique, and people can apply to their blog.
Many guest blogger sent me posts so simple that we can find out in internet thousand posts with the same content just by a click. For example a post name 'SEO techniques' is about using H1 tag, title, meta tag ... Or another post name 'Social marketing technique' focus on how to register Twitter /Facebook and create a fanpage only.
Don't misunderstood my words, content in the posts above are not wrong, but I think none of you visit SimplexDesign for a thing like this.

2, Pay attention to the guest posting rules

In my blog ,there's a page name 'write for us' in the top navigation bar . This page show guest posting rules, niche topics, link, bio and email address that you can send post to. For saving times, please don't send me posts on other niches, for example: education, real estate ...They can be published in somewhere else, but not my blog.
Take your time in reading guest posting rules, I think it will easier for you and me. As a blog owner, I feel ok with guest posting proposals that already know what niche topics to write. And I think other blog owners who accept guest posting are the same to me.

3, Take care of the biography 

All I want for a good biography at the end of guest post is basic information on guest blogger, and links to his/her profile or website.
Don't use this for advertisements, don't use this to write something that not about you. It will increase the opportunity your post appear in my blog.

4, Considering link building strategy before submitting guest post

I know many blogger who want to increase ranks, so he/she hire ghost blogger submit guest posts with back links to everywhere. But Google has changed their policy and some blogs got penalties from Google for their back links.
Several days ago, I have to remove back links in a guest post as request of a webmaster. He hired link building service submit guest posts to many sites, even unrelated sites, afterthat, his website has been moved to Google sandbox.

Guest blogging bring benefit to both of guest bloggers and blog owner. I'm not an expert that know and write everything. So I need contribution from you all. Knowledge is for sharing.
If you follow all things above, I think your post will appear in my blog soon.

7 essential elements to sketch your blog look great

A blog is a  website that contains valuable information published on the World Wide Web shared among people at large. No matter how rich the content of your blog is, a unique blog design plays a vital role in making your blog successful. The internet is filled with ready to install themes but for bloggers who want make their blog a killer, read on to find out how you can design your blog from scratch.

Preparing for the blog design

The first step towards designing a blog is to have a clear idea as to what you are looking for. This is important for you or for your blog designer to save time and money on designing your blog.

The choice of colors

As you are striving towards getting more visitors to your blog, choose colors that many people like so that they will tend to stick around for a long time and also bring in their friends to your blog.  Every color has a meaning of its own and the choice of colors can convey a lot to your visitors. Usually bright colors like red and orange grab the attention of the visitors.

Website layout

Blog designing is based upon the layout of your blog website. Earlier, blog websites had just the header and footer, main page for content and a sidebar. Nowadays blogs have two sidebars on the right and left side of the main content. You must have noted archive, subscriptions by email on the side bar.

Let us look at the importance of each of the layout components.

Header

Header is the top portion of your blog web page that your visitors first see when landing on your blog. The header is made up of the title, slogan, logo and navigation menu. Apart from these the search bar and icons to connect with social networking websites also finds a place on the header. The search functionality helps your visitors to perform a search on your blog and find relevant information.

Sidebar

You can opt to have two side bars left and right side of your main content or one of them. These side bars give you an opportunity to showcase advertisements or  add a call to action button like Buy now! Offers on e-books, prompting your visitors to click and view the ad. Today there are so many multimedia professionals who specialize in delivering Ad banner design services through the internet.
If you browse through your favorite blogs, you will find network sharing functions on the left and blog archive, search function, tags, categories towards the right on many of them.

Center web page

The center part is where your blog content appears. Design your center part in a nice way so that visitors can enjoy reading your articles. You should be able to accommodate blogger comment form that allows other bloggers to comment on the posts and display them with replies added to those comments. Also include social media buttons and links to related posts. Social media buttons enable people to share your article posts on popular social networking and bookmarking websites.

Footer

Footer is the last section of the blog page. This section is the same for almost all web pages which consists links like privacy policy, terms and conditions and contact us.

A good blogging platform compliments an attractive blog design. Blogging platform like Wordpress support theme installation and has over a thousand free templates to offer for its bloggers to instantly add a theme to their blog. Let your blog design code be flexible enough to make changes in case your blog is not able to attract visitors. Ensure that it is search engine friendly and compatible on devices like the iphone, tablet and mobile touch phones.

About Guest Blogger

 Linda, a passionate blogger also creates attractive banner designs for the web and dns server setup to configure and optimize server.

Simplex Orgmag - New template from SimplexDesign

It's been a long time since our last template released . In this post ,I will show you a new template name Simplex Orgmag . This is a simple template ,similar to Simplex buzz template but different in fonts and a bit in layout .This template was inspired by Origin mag template (Wordpress template) from WP Zoom . Base on their design ,I converted to Blogger and then made some changes .
You can take a look at the demo of this template .
I made two versions of template file .One version that all script has been integrated in template itself and the other that comes with script files so you can host the script yourself.

DemoDownload

The download link is also available on our Template Download page.

Install Instruction

1, Download template .

2, If you choose version that host script yourself , you can download script files ,host them in your own host and then open template file , find this code

<script src='/dropdown.js' type='text/javascript'/>
<script src="/jtools.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Replace the /dropdown.js and /jtools.js with the url to these files on your own host.
If you choose version that script integrated , you can skip this step .

3, To add the top navigation menu

Find this code

<ul class='dropdown' id='mainmenu'>
                     <li><a href=''>About</a></li>
                     <li><a href=''>Archives</a></li>
                     <li><a href=''>Shortcodes</a></li>
                     <li><a href=''>Full Width Page</a></li>
                     <li><a href=''>Slideshow</a></li>
                 </ul>   

Add the url you want to this menu

4, To add link to your social media

Find this code

<ul id='navsocial'>
                     <li>
                         <a href=''><img alt='RSS' height='16' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuDLzT4TJ6B0-6Rp1XjL5XZu7QbHroicGbWskLlBH0RQy28MO6JMm1drEoCwp7XaIykOtVBwR69IyUK-D6fJQ1yQpx4hO6Wd_t1AbLN7F51-d1Pxjn6VTu0d2thEkmoBjGrn1hPVoGpRJT/' width='16'/>RSS</a>
                     </li>
                     <li>
                         <a href='http://twitter.com/' rel='external,nofollow'><img alt='Twitter' height='16' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFrD7lKMzc93uPE3YWo_ilTWRWAeZo7f1XByPkgg-1HdrykQ5YitViJlGlzPZz3u5jSMBZi-yt9tn0NnWGFDkogGsSe46Oi3W2UkHRMqJhRMiQF9TUZuqC_esh6EWLahbACro5HIyAOA9Q/' width='16'/>Twitter</a>
                     </li>
                     <li>
                         <a href='http://facebook.com/' rel='external,nofollow'><img alt='Facebook' height='16' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrqj1RrZvLcq__vhN-IF9eEVx09gOQAhLQFtn66yVhY9JuJO8a6ovjO6UBWQgjTQoFxX25KvDhRpJOn9DjFYQQBlh9DhdxC55MDVcRfj8_0dHh2hIYzC7wKnvbKOgDvafzsT97zh035E2J/' width='16'/>Facebook</a>
                     </li>                                
                  </ul>

Add the URL to your social media account in the code above .

5, To add link to main menu navigation

Find this code

<ul class='dropdown' id='secondmenu'>
                     <li><a href=''>Home</a></li>
                     <li><a href=''>Apple</a></li>
                     <li><a href=''>Gadgets</a></li>
                     <li><a href=''>Technology</a></li>
                     <li><a href=''>World</a></li>
                     <li><a href=''>Auto</a></li>
                     <li><a class='sf-with-ul' href=''>Sport</a>
                         <ul class='sub-menu'>
                              <li><a href=''>Surfing</a></li>
                             <li><a href=''>Formula 1</a></li>
                             <li><a href=''>Rally Racing</a></li>
                             <li><a href=''>Football</a></li>
                         </ul>
                     </li>
                   
                 </ul>

Add link to your categories in the code above

6, Upload template to Blogger

7,To add posts to slider

Click on edit link in Carousel widget

Add the name of category which you want to show posts in slider , like this

Save widget

8, To add posts to Latest news section

Click on edit link in Latest news widgets

Add the category which you want to show posts in widget content

9, Sidebar and footer are widget ready sections ,so you can add/remove/modify widgets easily for your purpose .

That's all for this template . Feel free to leave me comments .

Influence Your Search Position Using Social Media Sites

There are hundreds of factors that the search engines consider when creating their results pages. Web content and links have always been considered important. More recently, the use of social indicators has been highlighted by the likes of Google as a way to identify Author Authority or Author Rank. A lot of attention from social media websites means that an author is obviously well respected within their online community. Therefore, having an active and effective social media profile can help improve your search rankings as well as your social media performance.

Google’s Impact On Social Media

Google has long dreamed of being able to combine its powerful search engine listings with a variety of social results. This universal search is certainly several steps closer than ever before but it remains something of a distant dream. There are, of course, many social indicators that the search engines will use but it makes sense that Google would use data from their own social network, Google+. They have greater control over the information they can access and how they use it. Many believe Google+ already impacts on their SEO and its importance in this respect is only likely to be highlighted more in the future.

Google+

Google+ is the search engine’s first major entry into the social networking arena. They have had previous attempts but on a smaller scale and they are promising and delivering greater interaction between the social network and their search results.

Other Social Media Websites

There are many other social media websites to consider. YouTube is one of the most popular sites in the world and, if you consider it to be a search engine, then it would be the second biggest behind owners Google. It is a social media sharing website and enables those with video content to enjoy another outlet or channel for their creative work.

Examples Of Social Sites

• Flickr and Picasa enable the sharing of photos while Scribd offers presentation sharing. As well as YouTube, users looking for video sharing sites can use Vimeo and DailyMotion.
• Digg, StumbleUpon, and NewsVine are what are considered to be social news sites. They allow users to write or syndicate news content and share it with readers.
• Facebook, Pinterest, and LinkedIn are among the most popular social networks one can access. These often cross the boundaries into other forms of social media websites. Facebook, for example, is also one of the most popular video sharing sites too. • Twitter, while also considered a social network, is a microblogging platform. Tumblr and Plurk are also tagged as being microblogging platforms.
• Location based social networks like FourSquare and Google Latitude enable users to share their location and even rate or rank the specific establishment they are in. This is a very small sample of the types of social media website that exist. There are some that are highly targeted to small groups of people and offer one very specific service. Mendeley, for example, is a researchers’ social network. Causes, which is actually a Facebook application, is the world’s largest fundraising social media application.

How Social Media Impacts Search

Social media is certainly known to help search rankings. Shares, Likes, and links from such pages are considered social indicators by the search engines and they consider websites with a lot of social indicators to have authority and respect from readers. Some users have already reported that Google+ and Google+1 results can help and has helped increase the ranking of their website.

How To Use Social Media To Your Benefit

Consider your strengths, the type of content you serve, and your target visitors and website users. If you serve video content then you should look to share video. If you want to encourage conversation about the video clips and videos that you share then you should consider Facebook as well as YouTube because this combines the features of a social network and a video sharing website. If you serve news content then NewsVine or another collaborative news website could be your best option.

Social Success

The likes of Dominos Pizza, Dell, and Starbucks are some of the big name companies that have succeeded in the social media arena. Companies are now looking at ways in which to incorporate mobile into their social media. More and more users are accessing social networks like Facebook from their mobile phone and there are many more ways in which users can interact with these sites on mobile platforms. Mobile social media marketing has become increasingly important to those looking to benefit from social traffic.

Setting Your Site Up To Benefit

A full social media marketing campaign can cost a lot of time and effort and for the small business it may not seem like a financially beneficial option. However, the rewards can be exceptional as long as your campaign takes the right form and heads in the right direction. Your website should also be set up so that it benefits your social media campaign. Whether this means offering an online app, giving users easy access to share buttons, or delivering on the promise that you make to social media users, you should ensure that your site is set up and ready to deliver conversion for your efforts. Social media is a powerful means of encouraging user engagement and it can deliver exceptional results for your website in exchange for some time or resources. Have you optimised your site for social media? Do you share content and, if so, has it helped improve your online business results? Let us know below.

 About Guest Blogger

Matt Jackson is a content writer for SEOOutsourcingCompany.co.uk, writing social media and on- page content for a variety of sites in many industries. They work with digital marketing agencies of all sizes, providing ethical and efficient SEO Outsourcing.