What’s the Deal With Links From M.Biz? Should You Disavow?

Several times a week I get an email from a site owner who is asking whether they should disavow links to their site that come from m.biz and m.biz clone sites. I have been asked this frequently enough that I decided that an article on this topic would be useful to readers of Search Engine Watch. I’d like to preface this article by saying that some of what I am writing is simply personal preference as I do not know with certainty how Google handles these links. But, I will give you my thoughts and also some information that Google employees have stated that support those thoughts. I also would greatly encourage comments from those of you who have differing opinions to mine.

The site appears to be simply a search engine. The whois data for the site lists it as being owned by Lv ShaoHua and registered in southern China:

How to Speed Up the Link-Building Process

Link-building has been a tried-and-true SEO strategy for years, but there are still many experts practicing this technique who aren’t aware of all the tools available to assist them in their efforts. Because the effects of the link-building process takes time to actually become visible in search engine results, it can be a struggle for marketing directors and SEO companies to show proof to a client that their investment is well worth the wait. However, utilizing Google Webmaster Tools means that the normal time spent playing the waiting game for your content to be revealed to searchers can be cut down significantly.

In a previous article, “Index Your Content Faster With the Fetch as Google Tool,” I explained how to submit new Web pages and blog posts published on a website you own to the Google index in a matter of minutes instead of waiting days, weeks, or months for Googlebot to crawl the page and show up in the search results.

Google Penguin 3.0 Likely in 2014, Says John Mueller

In the Google Webmaster Central office hours hangout on Google+ on September 12, Google Webmaster Trends analyst John Mueller says Penguin 3.0 will likely launch in 2014.

SEO Is No One-Trick Pony

This past week, I was joined by Josh McCoy of Vizion Interactive in presenting an SEO workshop for attendees of the Integrated Marketing Summit in Kansas City. The workshop was four hours and the presentation totaled just more than 100 slides.

As you might imagine, there was a lot of stuff to talk about. By its nature, some of that content was a “bit” on the technical side, but we tried our best to speak “English” so that the attendees could walk away with fewer questions than they had coming in.

The Great Disavow Debate

A Whiteboard Friday video from Moz has stirred up significant debate in the SEO community. In this video, Josh Bachynski tackles the question: