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

Small Business Mavericks

Keyword-stuffed Content - This has never been a good practice. Focus on great content that helps your visitor. Red widgets, yellow widgets, pink widgets with blue polka dots, etc. Having a separate page for each widget is not going to help you rank for widgets. That’s cool. It doesn’t.

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2 Million Backlinks and 15 SEO Answers from Google’s Matt Cutts

Viper Chill

I still feel though that the search results from 2011 and 2012 are just far better than what we’ve seen in 2013. ” What should we do with embeddable codes in things like widgets and infographics? Should we include the rel=”nofollow” by default? I would recommend putting a no-follow, especially on widgets.

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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 Yoast higlighted that Godaddy we’re using widgets on their website builder and linking back to their own website with anchor-text rich backlinks. Not everyone gets the same treatment, so why should we all act the same? GoDaddy Makes Google Their B h (Again).

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