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

Bill Hartzer

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. It is a “nofollow” link: Click on the image above it in order to enlarge it.

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How Much It Costs to Publish on Top Media Websites like Forbes, Entrepreneur, and BuzzFeed.com

Bill Hartzer

We’ve always known that you can, in fact buy your way onto these sites, but what does it cost? In order for your link profile to look more natural, it’s best to have a mix of links with the nofollow attribute on them as well as links without the nofollow link attribute on them. Website Price.

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HOW TO: Guide to Performing Website Audits

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

You can build all the links you want, but if your website isn’t optimized, Googlebot won’t be able to crawl the site properly. Even having two pages on the same site with duplicate content will get your site penalized. Before getting started, run Xenu Link Sleuth to check for broken links on the site, and fix them.

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3 Great Safe Alternatives to Guest Blogging

Bill Hartzer

Either way, you’ll have content on your site that you’ll be able to promote. Once you’ve published the content on your site, you can collect leads using it. You can also use sites like Outbrain.com to push traffic directly to your content. So, what’s the next best thing to guest blogging? Publish it.

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How Google Finds and Penalizes Advertorials

Bill Hartzer

Google wants links in advertorials to be tagged with the nofollow attribute and the FTC requires full disclosure. In order for Google to “deal” with the thousands or tens of thousands of websites buying and selling paid links was a tremendous task. Then, perhaps deal with those sites that they found.

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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]. Put that data into a spreadsheet.

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10 SEO Tactics That No Longer Work (If They Ever Did) | Small.

Small Business Mavericks

Did you just buy a nifty SEO book, or download one for free, that promises to tell you everything there is to know about SEO? The best search engines will crawl your site if it’s crawlable. Your visitors will know what the site is about, but the search engines don’t care about these tags. Be careful. They look good.

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