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Survey: Pinterest a Great Source of Links for Publishers. What Types of Sites Get the Most Links?

Adam Sherk

What types of sites get the most links from Pinterest? But What About Nofollow? External links on Pinterest have the nofollow attribute which takes way their direct SEO value (a necessary step to combat abuse). Lifestyle content is the big winner but there are good opportunities for publishers in nearly any topical area.

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SEO Guidelines for Sponsored Content and Partner Links

Adam Sherk

For example The Huffington Post is allowing brands to sponsor a section on the site which (in some cases) includes only regular HuffPo editorial content, as opposed to brand-created content. Make sure that links within sponsored content have the “nofollow” attribute or are coded so that they are inaccessible to crawlers.

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SEMPO Caught Violating Google Webmaster Guidelines for Advertorials

Bill Hartzer

SEMPO, and its Board of Directors, should know better than to take advantage of these types of links. As such, links to SEMPO should include a ‘nofollow’ link, and clearly state in the article (or at the end of the article) that Motoko Hunt is a Board Member of SEMPO. . -

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The Most Important SEO Metrics For Backlinks Analysis

Kikolani

For example, in 2008, link exchanges were a common technique for SEO, and the results were excellent for most sites. To quickly determine if a link is dofollow or nofollow, you can install the Chrome Nofollow extension, which will highlight all nofollow links. Meta nofollow. Meta noindex. 302 moved temporarily.

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The Most Important SEO Metrics For Backlinks Analysis

Kikolani

For example, in 2008, link exchanges were a common technique for SEO, and the results were excellent for most sites. To quickly determine if a link is dofollow or nofollow, you can install the Chrome Nofollow extension, which will highlight all nofollow links. Meta nofollow. Meta noindex. 302 moved temporarily.

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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. Take a look at the example below. The likelihood of paid links appearing in the sections that I’ve highlighted in red below is a good example of this. I’m using Search Engine Land in the example above.

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Do Social Signals Drive SEO?

Convince & Convert

All the social media sites NoFollow such links, which acts as an instruction to the search engines to not pass PageRank through those links. “Me-too” type articles are not going to get you anywhere, no matter how well you work the mechanics. Here are two examples worth considering. So Does This Really Drive SEO?

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