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SEO Guidelines for Sponsored Content and Partner Links

Adam Sherk

However in any implementation it is important to comply with search engine guidelines to avoid negative repercussions for SEO. For example The Huffington Post is allowing brands to sponsor a section on the site which (in some cases) includes only regular HuffPo editorial content, as opposed to brand-created content.

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How To: Make Your Links Do Follow Links in Google Plus

Bill Hartzer

Here is a nifty, simple search engine optimization trick that I bet you didn’t know. I am not sure if Google has done this on purpose, but some links that are posted in Google Plus are automatically tagged with a nofollow link attribute, meaning that there is not any search engine optimization value added to the link.

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HOW TO: Guide to Performing Website Audits

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Onsite optimization of websites is the most important factor in ranking better in search engine results. Bolding and italicizing text within paragraphs will show importance of the phrase to search engines. Cloaking content is a very risky practice which will get your website heavily penalized by search engines. Geo Redirects.

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The Most Important SEO Metrics For Backlinks Analysis

Kikolani

Search Engine Optimization is strongly influenced by the quality of your site’s backlinks and will continue to be for the coming years. To quickly determine if a link is dofollow or nofollow, you can install the Chrome Nofollow extension, which will highlight all nofollow links. Meta nofollow. Meta noindex.

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The Most Important SEO Metrics For Backlinks Analysis

Kikolani

Search Engine Optimization is strongly influenced by the quality of your site’s backlinks and will continue to be for the coming years. To quickly determine if a link is dofollow or nofollow, you can install the Chrome Nofollow extension, which will highlight all nofollow links. Meta nofollow. Meta noindex.

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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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Online Reputation Management For Businesses: A Comprehensive Guide

Harp Interactive

If you have a website that depends on traffic from search engines then your reputation is vulnerable to external forces. Negative websites whose sole purpose is to provide a platform for your disgruntled customers to malign your brand (your keyword) can show up in Google search results and invade your search real estate.