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To many webmasters, Google’s Disavow Tool seems a lifesaver. If you’ve suffered a Google penalty or been plagued by shady link building, simply upload a file of backlinks you want to disavow, and BOOM - you’re back in good graces. Or, more than likely, nothing at all. To better understand, I used the tool myself to disavow 1000s of links, and talked with dozens of SEOs who used it in attempts to recover from Google penalties.
Why might Google not be caching pages that they've previously indexed? Explore a few potential reasons in this post from the Moz Community Q&A.
Seeing fluctuations in Domain Authority (DA) or Page Authority (PA) scores? This Q&A post from Rand explores how and why these numbers change when a new index is released and what these fluctuations mean for your site.
Wondering how doorway pages affect your website's search visibility? This Q&A post explores hypotheses about how Google's doorway page-focused update may influence local SEO.
This Q&A post explores techniques for preventing "print" pages from being indexed by search engines.
A good search engine does not attempt to return the pages that best match the input query. A good search engine tries to answer the underlying question. If you become aware of this you'll understand why Google (and other search engines), use a complex algorithm to determine what results they should return.
In a land ravaged by pandas, one man will teach you everything you need to know about duplicate content. Learn how to spot duplicates in the wild and stop them in their tracks.
Seeing a stark decrease in rankings after a website redesign? This Q&A post explores a few potential reasons why.
What factors influence whether a site appears in Local Pack results on a Google SERP? This Q&A post explores several hypotheses.
Does increasing word count automatically help content rank better? Learn what the SEO community thinks in this Q&A post.