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UGC, Sponsored Are The Two New Nofollow Link Attributes Introduce By Google

BeingOptimist

Google is one of the top search engines in the world, and it is continuously upgrading the search engine to understand the behaviour of the links. That is why they have recently launched two more nofollow link attributes that is UGC and sponsored. You are saying here to Google that you do not trust those links.

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How Google Finds and Penalizes Advertorials

Bill Hartzer

No website owner wants to log into Google Webmaster Tools and see an unnatural link warning from Google. From what I am seeing, many of these unnatural link warnings and manual penalties from Google are a result of having participated in advertorials. How Google Identifies Advertorials. First, a little background.

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Paid Bloggers Still Get Google Downgrades

Bare Feet Studios

Bloggers who had earned a decent or better Page Rank saw their status tank to zero once Google realized they were being being paid for certain posts by advertisers. To its credit, Google also penalized its own Japan division who used the pay per post tactic in an attempt to compete against Yahoo.

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Mahalo Mr. Solis | Bare Feet Blog

Bare Feet Studios

Solis by Roxanne Darling on May 27, 2009 Brian Solis, a truly forward thinking PR professional and co-founder of the Social Media Club , took the time and captured a lot of the same thoughts I had, yet was reluctant to post in detail when I discussed Google, the FTC, and paid links. On a blog you never know as there is no way to know.

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How to Build a Superblog: Insights from the Technorati Top 10

Viper Chill

TMZ, for example, was a robot hobby site up until December 2005 when it started to cover celebrity gossip as it still does to this day. Can you really take in 50-60 posts every day from your favourite blog in your inbox or in Google Reader? Unless you or other readers have nothing else to do each day, then probably not.

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The Most Important Blog Post You'll Probably Never Read

Viper Chill

The author knows this but I doubt he cares – the traffic he receives from Google must be incredible. played it safe with their portal, and then Google came along with their simple search interface. target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 148 Comments Benny the Irish polyglot says: March 22, 2010 at 11:17 am Great post as always!