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Takeaways from Google’s Updated Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide

Bill Hartzer

A while back, I took a long hard look at Google’s first version of the Google Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide. Google has now updated their Google Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide, along with some interesting information: interesting if you read between the lines ,so to speak, in the document.

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SEMPO Caught Violating Google Webmaster Guidelines for Advertorials

Bill Hartzer

SEMPO, The Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization , is taking advantage of text links in advertorials, clearly a violation Google Webmaster Guidelines for link schemes. Readers have to click, then read to the end of the author’s bio to get that information. - The article only has one outgoing link, to SEMPO.org. -

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Google Ready To Rollout Page Speed Report In Search Console

BeingOptimist

In addition to this, the search engine giant will also share details on how to increase the URLs, page speed by linking the PageSpeedInsight tool. If you enjoyed this latest information on Google Search Console Page report then I would request you to share on the social media platforms. Useful Resources.

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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. Just like in any industry, SEO has a lot of misleading information on blogs and forums. Don’t let yourself manipulated by black hat SEOs and always get your information from trusted sources.

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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. Just like in any industry, SEO has a lot of misleading information on blogs and forums. Don’t let yourself manipulated by black hat SEOs and always get your information from trusted sources.

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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. I’m using Search Engine Land in the example above. I would like to note that those text link ads do not appear to have the “nofollow” attribute on them. Take a look at the example below.

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Web CEO SEO Software Platform Review

Kikolani

Web CEO is a search engine optimization software that has a lot of great features. In this post, we’re going to look at how easy it is to research your niche, promote your website, track performance and optimize your web pages for higher search engine rankings in the Web CEO SEO Dashboard. Reviewing Your Data. Backlink Quality Check.

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