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28 Resources from My Internet Marketing Toolbox

Viper Chill

target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 78 Comments Diggy says: March 1, 2010 at 1:01 pm Hey Glen! And here I am competing manually. And the to-do widget also. I’m sure all of you knew about some of the items here, but I hope you all found something you can add to your own internet marketing toolbox. I may have to start over.

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PIN’s: The Future of Private Link Building

Viper Chill

Adding do-followed links to widgets. I am utilising them because we’re not competing on a fair playing field, and what is supposed to work is very rarely what ranks, at least in the industries that I operate in. They Continue to Make People Scared of Link Building. Using directories for links. Utilising private blog networks.

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How to Get a Footer Link from SoundCloud.com (And Why I’m Continuing with “Dark SEO”)

Viper Chill

Within 24 hours of my blog post about how they were abusing their loyal readers by stuffing dozens of links in their widgets, they removed them from their widget code. Yet again, a company worth billions of dollars didn’t have an SEO on their team competent enough to find pages like that and think it may be a concern?

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2 Million Backlinks and 15 SEO Answers from Google’s Matt Cutts

Viper Chill

” What should we do with embeddable codes in things like widgets and infographics? Should we include the rel=”nofollow” by default? “My answer is coloured by the fact that we’ve seen a ton of people trying to abuse widgets and abuse infographics.

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Why Google Pushed Me to Build a (Bigger) Link Network

Viper Chill

Yoast higlighted that Godaddy we’re using widgets on their website builder and linking back to their own website with anchor-text rich backlinks. It took a few emails for them to understand what I was talking about so I sent them the screenshot you see in this post of all the widgets with the links underneath.

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