The Toxic Link Glossary is inherited by other projects to ensure a common language and avoid confusions in all processes and systems of the company.
This website was set up as a free SEO Resource for everyone to learn about Toxic Links. It contains material previously only accessible to paid users, or members of trainings.
We at LinkResearchTools are obviously biased, and we don’t try to deny that. Having worked in the SEO industry for 20 years now, with LRT being the product of choice for many SEO professionals in high margin niches since 2009.
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Scraper links are acquired automatically from domains running blackhat software. These links are often not to worry about due to obvious patterns.
A paid link is a link on a website that has been paid for, usually by a company or individual who wants to promote their website. Paid links can be beneficial for SEO because they generally result in increased traffic to the website that they are linked to. However, paid links can also be detrimental to SEO because they can be seen as a form of spam by search engines.
A paid link is a link to a website that has been paid for, and it can help or hurt your SEO
Learn what a Backlink Audit is, and why you should care about it.
Keywords and their classification matters for Toxic Links evaluation.
Manipulative Links are sometimes used to describe Follow Links from Link Building that pass PageRank
Manipulative Links are sometimes used to describe Follow Links from Link Building that pass PageRank
Nofollow Links are links not passing PageRank, hence (usually) not being seen as Unnatural Links by Google.
Unnatural Links are Follow Links violating the Google Webmaster Guidelines according to Google
Unnatural Links are Follow Links violating the Google Webmaster Guidelines according to Google
Ranking-related Terms used in the SEO market to describe
DoFollow Links don’t exist. Some people mean a Follow Link when they say DoFollow link.
Google Filters describe effects seen in search results when results are suppressed due to algorithmic reasons that Google won’t disclose.
Google Penalties often have an immediate and drastic effect on the rankings of web sites.
Understand easily what sitewide links are, and why they need normalizing in link analysis.
When you disavow links you tell search engines to ignore them for ranking calculation.
Glossary Index anchor text ○ Press release Online Bingo – over-optimized & NoFollow ○ Paid link for gay dating site on old association site ○ Paid links on “nautical research site” on expired domain ○ Should I disavow links with money anchor text? ○ Anchor Text ○ Example of Keyword Classes ○ Keyword Class for every link ○ Keywords Types - Classification of Keyword Phrases in Anchor Text ○ TL:DR?
Creating a disavow file and uploading it to Google Search Console is the first step in invalidating links to your domain. The disavow file is usually created with link audit tools like LinkResearchTools Recover or Link Detox.
If your website is in a high margin industry, then different SEO rules apply
There are couple words that are probably inventions by LRT, and we want you all to understand them.
Terms used in the Search Industry
Ranking-related Terms used in the SEO market to describe
Backlinks acquired from sources or sites that use spammy links that point back to your site. There are several reasons why this occurs…
Toxic Link is a broad marketing term often describing different things