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How Social Media Can Increase Your New Site’s Search Visibility

Socialmedia.biz

Even though social media links are nofollow, you’ll still get a bit of authority and you’ll be sharing your name with potential new customers across multiple social media platforms. On the flip side of the search ranking coin, it’ worth noting that search is no longer happening solely on Google, Bing, Yahoo, and the like.

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

ProBlogger

Before we get started, I just thought I would mention a few Google algorithm changes that you should know about when thinking about link building in 2012. 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.

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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. Good luck convincing your friends outside of search to start using Bing or Yahoo anytime soon. Should we include the rel=”nofollow” by default?

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