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NoFollow Links in Press Releases? How To Revise Your Press Release Strategy

Bill Hartzer

Therefore, all links in press releases should have the nofollow attribute added to the links, so that the press release does not pass any SEO ( Search Engine Optimization ) value to the website it’s linking to. But I have a suspicion as to why they are wanting us to put nofollow links in press releases now. But I digress.

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Do Social Signals Drive SEO?

Convince & Convert

Do Search Engines Use Social Signals to Directly Drive Rankings? The theory is that content that gets shared a lot in social media may be seen as more valuable content by the search engines. All the social media sites NoFollow such links, which acts as an instruction to the search engines to not pass PageRank through those links.

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Why Blogs that Allow Guest Posts Will Be Penalized in 2013

ProBlogger

Just as low-level article directories (ezinearticles, articlesbase, and others) got hurt by Google’s Panda Update in 2013, I predict that Google will hurt sites abusing guest blogging in 2013. In 2013, that is my prediction. No, you don’t have to put Nofollow tags on every outbound link; Google does not want that.

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Google Reconsideration Request: How to Get a Manual Penalty Lifted

Bill Hartzer

As for links to be nofollowed if they bring you traffic but or paid or sponsored links, or are part of a guest post or advertorial. September 23, 2013. link building Search Engine Optimization' Make a record of everything that you’re doing, so you can give this information to Google. Again, record it in a spreadsheet.

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

Socialmedia.biz

Search engines are placing higher importance on what’s coming from social media. The extent to which Google and other search engines are indexing and ranking social traffic is still relatively unclear, but one thing is quite clear, social media matters. Your content strategy alone isn’t enough when it comes to ranking higher in search.

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Best Social Media Stats, Facts and Marketing Research of 2010

Webbiquity SMM

B2B advertising spending on social media is forecasted to grow at an annualized rate of 21% through 2013. The social prehistory of search engine marketing relevance and what it means for SEO and content by Conversionation. 17 Compelling And Highly Usable B2B Marketing Statistics by Modern B2B Blogs. Seems like a bit of a disconnect.

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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. Should we include the rel=”nofollow” by default? You get too focused on search engines and then totally miss social media and for example social media marketing.”

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