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

Bill Hartzer

There is actually a way to make sure that the links you post in Google+ are considered to be “do follow” links. To show this, I have turned on a Firefox add-on that shows whether or not a link is “nofollow” or not. It is a “nofollow” link: Click on the image above it in order to enlarge it.

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How Google Finds and Penalizes Advertorials

Bill Hartzer

No website owner wants to log into Google Webmaster Tools and see an unnatural link warning from Google. From what I am seeing, many of these unnatural link warnings and manual penalties from Google are a result of having participated in advertorials. How Google Identifies Advertorials. First, a little background.

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Google Reconsideration Request: How to Get a Manual Penalty Lifted

Bill Hartzer

If you have ever received a manual penalty from Google , then you most likely have received this message in Google Webmaster Tools that could be an unnatural link warning , similar to this one that my client received: The message reads something like this: Dear site owner or webmaster of [link]. Sincerely, Google Search Quality Team.

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HOW TO: Guide to Performing Website Audits

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Over the past several years, Google and Bing have released guidelines for webmasters to make websites more crawlable. This is a consolidation of all the guidelines released by Google and Bing over the years to improve onsite optimization. Duplicate content on pages is another way to get on Google’s black list.

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3 Great Safe Alternatives to Guest Blogging

Bill Hartzer

Guest blogging for SEO purposes started its downfall recently, especially with Google penalizing MyBlogGuest , and before that it was Google finding and penalizing advertorials. Links in all the content are typically nofollowed and comply with all FTC and Google Webmaster Guidelines.

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Old-Fashioned Organic SEO Wins the Day After Google Penguin Update

Bare Feet Studios

The latest Google search algorithm update (nicknamed Penguin) has moved strongly towards the long held principles of “organic seo.” In general, each of these major updates is to help Google answer real questions from its users. Page Rank is a logarithmic scale used by Google to rank the quality and validity of websites.

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Increase Your Income With Google Adsense

Viper Chill

You are here: ViperChill » Income » 6 Vital Lessons from a $200/day Adsense Account 6 Vital Lessons from a $200/day Adsense Account Written by Glen, this post has 92 Comments I’ve written about buying and selling websites quite a lot here as recently, that’s how I’ve been spending most of my time.

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