Twitch has new penalties for streamers caught viewbotting, CEO says By Karissa Bell May 7, 2026 Smith Collection/gado/Getty Images Twitch is putting streamers on notice about viewbotting. The company is taking new steps to crack down on people caught artificially inflating their viewership stats, according to an update from CEO Dan Clancy. “Today, we’re introducing … Continue reading Twitch has new penalties for streamers caught viewbotting, CEO says
Florida lawmakers advance bill targeting illegal gambling properties with stronger penalties Suswati Basu Florida lawmakers have formally enrolled Senate Bill 168, a measure that expands the state’s public nuisance law to include properties used for illegal gambling and removes limits on fines tied to those violations. The bill was ordered on Tuesday (March … Continue reading Florida lawmakers advance bill targeting illegal gambling properties with stronger penalties
The Dark Side of Link Building: How to Avoid Penalties Nate Nead / 14 Jun 2022 Link building is one of the best marketing strategies available. It can help you attract more traffic, generate leads, improve brand visibility and recognition, and even improve your trustworthiness. But if you aren’t careful, link building can also … Continue reading The Dark Side of Link Building: How to Avoid Penalties
Brian Shivraj — April 12, 2019 — April 12, 2019 Whether it is a red card, 2 minutes in the box or a flag on the play; getting a penalty puts your team at a disadvantage. Google is the referee of the internet. It encourages good quality and penalizes poor plays and bad behavior. Unlike … Continue reading How to Avoid Google Penalties
Have you ever gotten a manual penalty from Google? It’s no fun. Contributor and SMXpert Kaspar Szymanski shares answers and insights on how to avoid getting another ‘love note’ in the future. Debra Mastaler on May 7, 2018 The Ask the SMXpert series continues with the question and answer (Q&A) segment of sessions held … Continue reading Ask the SMXpert: Google manual penalties explained
By EmilyReiffer March 1st, 2017 Traffic to your website is steadily rising, along with sales. Rankings are also on the rise for your target keywords. But the next day traffic takes a sudden nosedive and your site is nowhere to be seen in the search results. What happened? The dreaded algorithm update… It can be incredibly … Continue reading 3 Common Google Penalties & How to Recover From Them
Columnist Brian Harnish tackles how to analyze links from a Google Webmaster Guidelines perspective, and how to make sure that your client’s linking activities don’t cause them to lose everything they have gained. Brian Harnish on August 3, 2016 As most SEOs know, links are still extremely important to ranking highly in the Google search … Continue reading Link profile analysis: How to prevent penalties by being proactive
Govind AgarwalFebruary 24, 2015 There are times, when you might notice a drip in the traffic of your website after analyzing the website account details. After noticing, a potential search engine penalty, find the cause of this mayhem and take up preventive measures for the fear of losing the ranking. It is advisable to keep … Continue reading Avoid Search Engine Algorithm Penalties Through SEO Guide
Govind AgarwalJanuary 18, 2015 Google penalties have cost thousands of webmasters several nights of sleep worrying about their lost ranking and business. As the saying goes “once bitten twice shy,” webmasters would like to be all the more cautious now not to elicit any penalties in the future. How to protect your website against Google … Continue reading 3 Important Ways To Protect Your Website Against Google Penalties In The Future
