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Should We Continue To Trust Google? | Small Business Mavericks

Small Business Mavericks

I thought Google had added a nofollow algorithm for article directories and that it wouldn’t count those links because the idea is to get your links from publishers who use your articles rather than to rely on links from the directories. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0

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10 SEO Tactics That No Longer Work (If They Ever Did) | Small.

Small Business Mavericks

PageRank Sculpting – A few SEOs taught a couple of years ago that you could increase your link popularity to your best pages by adding a nofollow attribute to links pointing to your terms of service and privacy policy pages. It doesn’t. Don’t count on it, especially if your website has only 10 pages.

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Why Google Pushed Me to Build a (Bigger) Link Network

Viper Chill

Over two years ago now, back in December 2011, Joost de Valk a.k.a And it’s not like he’s trying to build them now, he published them back in 2006 and 2007. Mostly nofollow and those that are dofollow are spammed to hell. Not everyone gets the same treatment, so why should we all act the same? Broken link building?

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Best Social Media Stats, Facts and Marketing Research of 2010

Webbiquity SMM

The title is a tad misleading; while younger Internet users (aged 18-33) are blogging somewhat less than in 2006 and gravitating to Facebook, there has been an uptick in blogging among those 33 and older, and blog readership is up among all age groups. Everyone Uses E-mail, But Blogging Is On the Decline [STUDY] by Mashable. There are 1.5

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