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Paid Bloggers Still Get Google Downgrades

Bare Feet Studios

Bloggers who had earned a decent or better Page Rank saw their status tank to zero once Google realized they were being being paid for certain posts by advertisers. Bloggers who are compensated can use the “nofollow&# tag within their outbound links to keep those links from being tagged by Google as paid content.

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Book Review: Social Media Marketing

Webbiquity SMM

This presents misunderstandings (at the least) and enlists your people beyond just the marketing and PR groups. Chapters 36-39 present a great outline of web presence optimization , though Li doesn’t use that term. Explain your goals and establish clear guidelines for any mention of the company on social media sites.

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12 Reasons Your Business Needs a Social Media Marketing Program.

Saying It Social

SEO benefits: Many social media bookmarking sites use NOFOLLOW tags that limit the outbound link value of posts made on their sites, but there are still many leading sites that allow DOFOLLOW tags — including Friendfeed, Digg, and Mixx. Social Media is one thing that has given a new platform for bloggers to get some traffic.

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Ahrefs Review: How to Use Ahrefs to Analyze Your Blog

Razor Social

The type of links displayed are: NoFollow – These links pretty much have no value to your website in terms of SEO. For example, most links from blog comments are NoFollow because too many spammers were using comments to get links. Write better content and get to know the bloggers in your niche so they start linking to you.

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Comment Marketing 101

ProBlogger

And correct me if I’m wrong, but the first thing you probably hoped to get out of it was some links (even though most of them “nofollow”, hoping that it will still somehow boost your ranking), and also maybe get some traffic while making the blogger notice you. Grab the attention of the blogger. Making connections.

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10 Premium SEO Tools That You Can Try for Free (or Cheap)

Kikolani

Neighborhood Checker – The Majestic SEO Neighbourhood checker tool presents a list of “neighbours” – or, in technical terms, the sites hosted on the same IP. After the trial, pricing starts at $19 per month – one of the best for bloggers and small businesses. cognitiveSEO.

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Quora Marketing Guide 101: How to Promote Your Brand on Quora the Right Way

Webbiquity SMM

According to Blogging Wizard , 56% of B2B marketers use Quora to present their brands as thought leaders and customer-centric businesses. Quora links can provide referral traffic to your domain, but because they’re nofollow links, they’re useless for SEO. But since the link is nofollow that doesn’t help with my SEO.

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