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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. Back in 2003, when Google was beginning to crack down on paid links, I had a conversation with Shari Thurow about how Google determined, in an automated fashion, whether a website contained paid links or not.

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

Bare Feet Studios

Some content management systems allow you to have multiple websites with unique URLs that are all served from the same database (e.g. domains as you like, but better to have a 301 redirect on all but the main URL, whereby the others point to the main URL. I have more free site analyzer tools at the end!

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Your Link Building Guide for 2018

Razor Social

URL Rating (UR). Nofollow links also matter. Some links, for example, the ones from blog comments may have the rel=”nofollow” attribute. <a The nofollow attribute gives search engines instructions not to follow the link. It refers to the strength (authority) of an individual page and is measured from 0–100.

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Conquering Big Industries: My Bulletproof SEO Strategy

Viper Chill

target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 126 Comments Dan says: July 19, 2010 at 8:24 am Too cool Glen, I find myself copy and pasting every article to all my web guys. Reply Sharel says: July 19, 2010 at 7:08 pm Hi Glen, For the company blog, what is the suggested URL comany.com/blog or blog.company.com ? This is gold.

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20 Elements That Impact Link Value

Kikolani

First off, even if your link is “nofollow” (doesn’t give you link juice), places with high domain authority should still be of interest to you. Basically, if you write about dog food, you are free to link it on fashion blogs, or tech blogs, as long as you manage to steer the topic in a way that would be relevant.

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20 Elements That Impact Link Value

Kikolani

First off, even if your link is “nofollow” (doesn’t give you link juice), places with high domain authority should still be of interest to you. Basically, if you write about dog food, you are free to link it on fashion blogs, or tech blogs, as long as you manage to steer the topic in a way that would be relevant.

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The Ultimate Social Media Etiquette Handbook

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I’m not connected to the LinkedIn individual who spammed me, but he still took the liberty to use my email address for his personal gain in a completely unsolicited fashion. In a specific case, I manage a few LinkedIn groups so my email address is far more visible on the site than I’d like. Isn’t your name actually Alan?

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