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Link-building Tips and Tools for Bloggers in a Post-Panda and Penguin World

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In February of 2011, Google released the Panda update that took rankings away from websites with low-quality content and sites with more advertising than content. Links can do this regardless of whether or not they contain the “nofollow” attribute, contain redirects, come from a site with a high PageRank , and so on. For example….

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Should We Continue To Trust Google? | Small Business Mavericks

Small Business Mavericks

Here are others: HubPages Buzzle Associated Content Articles Base Find Articles These are all sites that can be referred to as “article directories&# under the traditional definition of article directory. Search engines have traditionally given them a nod of approval, pretty much across the board.