Quick SEO Tips, WP Plugin Dangers, Domain Redirects, Speedlink 13:2014

Hi everyone! Hope you all had a great and productive week. With all the things that has been going on lately on Google’s continued crackdown on webspam, the “remove links” craze and making use of the disavow tool has reached to a point where it is close to being ridiculous. From “algorithmic” penalties, to using the disavow links tool, Cutts has been giving advice and tips one after the other. Here are some:

The latest on the disavow links tool:

Quick SEO tip: no need to delete your old disavow links file before uploading a new one. You can just upload the new one.

— Matt Cutts (@mattcutts) March 25, 2014

Some SEOs have been deleting the file first, then uploading new, which creates two emails, and sometimes that confuses folks.

— Matt Cutts (@mattcutts) March 25, 2014

How can I tell if my site is affected by a particular algorithm?

A reminder of the dangers of installing a free commercial WordPress plugin

Good blog post about the dangers of trying to find “free” versions of commercial WordPress plugins: http://t.co/FQEcqenP9W

— Matt Cutts (@mattcutts) March 27, 2014

On inbound.org, a very interesting discussion came up of which I would be very interested in knowing what you think about redirecting a penalized site to a competitors site. Do you think it works?

And as usual, in no particular order: