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Yes, but article got 1y so it can be not so accurate now.

I think the same but need some more "proofs" like a/b tests or something.

Hello

Client got website with javascript generated content. All links there (from mainpage to some deeper page) are js generated. In code there're only javascripts and other basic typical code but no text links (<a href...="" ).<="" p=""></a>

<a href...="" ).<="" p="">The question is: are those js links got the same "seo power" as typical html href links?.For example majestic.com can't scan website properly and can't show seo metrics for pages. I know google crawls them (links and pages) but are they as good as typical links?</a>

<a href...="" ).<="" p="">Regards,</a>

Whats the domain name?

Hi

In general? Do link audit and seo audit. Then implement findings.

But to say more, reveal domain name. Can be to pm if you want.

On the other hand there could be no penalties, just crappy website (according to google guidelines now).

Krzysztof

Hi Satish

First of all. Those are only tools. They predict if you have penalty or not but won't tell you in 100%: "You've been penalized". Im not using that kind of tools to tell somebody he was penalized or not. Nothing will replace digging into data.

Penguin penalty is "automated penalty" (real time now) and you won't see messages in google search console.

How effectively? If you got enough number of good links, then you have the chance to bounce back after link audit completed. If you don't then you can see no rise or not to previous serps but seo after will be 100% effective again (at least for a start till next messing with google). Also there's another option - that's not link related penalty.

Choice is yours.

Guidelines are general. Each website is different case so you have to check if your markups are spammy or not. Spammy means:

• too much selected for structured markups

• improper use of markups

• markups in markups

and so on...

This is spammy structured markup penalty (likely this) or pure spam penalty. Can help.

Have you seen my private message?

Hi

Could you post here screenshot from gsc? Is this some manual penalty?

Ok so check with site something under 1000 pages and go to the last results page. You'll see that there'll be different number (in almost all cases).

Hi Sandi Matic.

Indeed, server location is in US and that matters.

On the other hand I see in google search result versions of your website: with www and without www. I see also this at the end of google results:
"In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 89 already displayed.
If you like, you can repeat the search with the omitted results included."
so this means you have some amount of similar content.

In code I see this: but your website is dedicated to New Zealand right? Change this (and all other) to en-NZ. Setting hreflang can help too.

Also you have little amount of linking domains (weak or weaker domains after new penguin 4). Worth to do is linkbuilding.

Another errors are meta descriptions are part of main content, heading h1 doubled, etc. To check all, page by page seo audit is needed. Even if you had it before, now you have to fix those onpage things to get better serps/traffic.

If you want place link just for link without any good comment but spammy/from template (hey your blog is really useful so come to mine...[link] etc) - bad idea
If you write useful comment about subject of the post with value added AND link would have safe anchor (not so money keyworded, brand/compound is the best for you) - good idea

But there're few catches:

• check if post/article is really related to your website niche - good? great
• check other comments - are they related? are they spammy? are they generated? - if you see many spam comments with links (money keyworded, repetited) then better NOT to post comment there because website owner doesn't care about comments quality (even if nofollowed - he probably set that to not get outgoing links penalty rather than prevent users from adding spam comments) and simply doesn't moderate them; if number of comments are low (not hundreds spammy looking) and all of them seems to be real - great and post your comment with link (that useful comment, hand written with value added and link not very money keyworded)

Other stuff worth doing?

• check website niche and how relative is to your website
• check stats like tf, cf, pa, da - if they're pretty good, great but imo better if stats are lower but website is more related to yours, than high stats and website is about anything
• check how spammy are links pointing to website - many money keywords? strange/not related anchors?

If all looks good - don't hesitate to post a comment. Your link will be probably nofollowed but still can bring some leads.

Ok so check with site something under 1000 pages and go to the last results page. You'll see that there'll be different number (in almost all cases).

Hi

This can be a matter of time.

You should get rid of them and then send RR to Google. Even if you don't see ranking drops, this penalty can make your seo/linkbuilding not so effective as it could be.

Krzysztof

Hi Bob

Tons of unique content but optimized? Tons but focused on keywords you want to rank? Good backlinks but are you sure? (Im not talking about seo metrics only). Etc etc...

Btw whats the domain name (can be in pm)?

Krzysztof

App? Google search console got this message. Probably with examples or unnatural links but sometimes people get penalty and if it's partial match then they'll get examples in first answer for RR. Or if they're lucky, they'll get examples with penalty given message.

About "apps" for unnatural links. None of them will give you 100% correct answer. I saw many times that "app" shows link as deadly risk/bad/disavow immediately but it wasn't so bad from my experience (and left it). On the other hand I saw "good/zero risk" links which were marked as unnatural links examples. To do it well, you have to have experience to not mess with your serps and traffic. Tools of course will help a lot with sorting out links, measuring seo metrics, finding footprints but won't give 100% good answer.

Let's say keyword is "ipad". For Apple it's brand keyword (safe), for you money keyword (if you have tons of links with that or if you're focusing on this keyword and want to rank on) or other keyword if you got little number of links with it. None of tools will figure what type it is. They can only calculate risk based on footprints they'll find so many of links can be good but in fact bad for your website.

This can be pretty easy to do:

• they could do few 301 redirect from domains with many inbound links

• they could place sitewide footer links on websites with many pages indexed

I don't believe it's a blackhat in 100% but I'm 100% it's not good in long term. Also DA increased so links come from high DA domains too. However high DA doesn't guarantee links are good for seo and always safe.

Hi Avin

www.abc.com/dance-coaching-classes is better because will cover both keyphrases (one partial but still better than nothing).

Keep in mind to not add categories (or more keywords to url) because you'll spam your url:

www.abc.com/dance-coaching/dance-coaching-classes/dance-coaching-classes-example-city

Krzysztof

Hi Becky

1. Check if those "404s" got any links/link juice/seo metrics - for example with majestic.com

2. If some of them have links - redirect to proper pages or homepage if you don't have a good page for something. And keep them. Used or not.

3. If the rest got 0 links, no seo metrics - set one 404 page and redirect ALL the rest 404s to this page (via htaccess for example). This page can be domain.com/404 with nice explanation about oops something went wrong etc.

4. Good would be forcing to reindex those 404 pages with some software or indexing service. Google will get it pretty fast.

Yes, it's bad especially if pages giving 404 but not redirected got some links and some seo metrics like trustflow.

Hi Satish

First of all. Those are only tools. They predict if you have penalty or not but won't tell you in 100%: "You've been penalized". Im not using that kind of tools to tell somebody he was penalized or not. Nothing will replace digging into data.

Penguin penalty is "automated penalty" (real time now) and you won't see messages in google search console.

How effectively? If you got enough number of good links, then you have the chance to bounce back after link audit completed. If you don't then you can see no rise or not to previous serps but seo after will be 100% effective again (at least for a start till next messing with google). Also there's another option - that's not link related penalty.

Choice is yours.