While Google is busy with its frequent penguin, panda updates – to punish poor quality link building sites, Microsoft Bing has come up with a unique and a simple method to achieve the same. Disavow Links or Disown links is a new feature that has been added to the Bing Webmaster Tool (BWT) which allows user to disallow links to their site that they don’t trust. [click to continue…]
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Google launched last week an update to its ranking algorithm that has upset, in fact hurt a lot of webmasters. The update intended to sieve out webspam from its rankings and prevent over-optimization was launched without a name earlier but later called ‘Penguin’. The name maybe quite apt, webmasters feel, as the new algo sees everything in black or white – as either genuine content or spam. Even more unfortunate than this sweeping approach, is how the search engine is still ineffective in preventing over-optimization. [click to continue…]