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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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Online Reputation Management For Businesses: A Comprehensive Guide

Harp Interactive

Many big companies are regularly confronted with this Internet Reputation Management nightmare and have to employ strategies to push down negative press and relegate Google position of negative sites that malign their brands. Create Professional LinkedIn profiles with optimized links to the company website. Include negative keywords.

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My thoughts on Facebook’s commenting system

The Way of the Web

There’s been a lot of debate around Facebook’s new commenting system, particularly due to the fact it is currently being tested on Techcrunch. On a more analytic level, there are a variety of reasons for not using a commenting system which currently rests on the shoulder of one company.

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How Sponsored Posts Can Ruin Your Blog

ProBlogger

Some SEO companies do a very good job guest posting. One of the SEO companies I’ve worked with actually secured a guest post with one of the biggest social media managers in the world, because they were committed to quality. However, there are other SEO companies that do a very shoddy job with their services.

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

Bare Feet Studios

” Our company started building websites in 1996. Included in the new guidelines are not only the carrot recommendations (DO) but increasingly Google is using the stick on those sites it perceives to be gaming the system (DON’T). Page Rank is a logarithmic scale used by Google to rank the quality and validity of websites.

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Do you lose value by turning off comments on a blog?

The Way of the Web

I want to start by establishing something – there is no ethical or moral argument against the owner of a website or blog making the decision to turn off a commenting system. No wonder so many of the more prominent bloggers have turned comments off, particularly when they tend to elicit the most rabid of fanboys for particular companies.

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Paid Bloggers Still Get Google Downgrades

Bare Feet Studios

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. The nofollow may well make that harder, but then again, if you are under contract I think it’s the buyer’s responsibility to track the postings of the paid blogger.

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