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How To: Make Your Links Do Follow Links in Google Plus

Bill Hartzer

There is actually a way to make sure that the links you post in Google+ are considered to be “do follow” links. To show this, I have turned on a Firefox add-on that shows whether or not a link is “nofollow” or not. It is a “nofollow” link: Click on the image above it in order to enlarge it.

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Facebook Rolling Out Facebook Articles

Bill Hartzer

A few things I’d like to see is whether or not there is a unique URL for the article, and whether or not the Facebook article is crawled and indexed in Google. I’ll also be looking to see how the links in Facebook articles appear, if they include the “nofollow” link attribute.

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Google Ready To Rollout Page Speed Report In Search Console

BeingOptimist

It is good news for the webmasters that Google has started the process of publicly rolling out highly anticipated page speed report in Search Console which was announced 6 months ago. Also Read, How To Use Google Webmaster Tools. You will find this page speed report just below the enhancement section in Google Search Console.

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Directory Submissions for Backlinks: Tips n’ Tricks to Get Some Love from Google

Harp Interactive

The more that relevant websites link to your website, the better Google likes you. Similarly, when a website links to your website, Google considers it a recommendation or a vote of confidence and increases your ranking. List the domains/urls you need to submit (don’t always submit the home page).

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How Google Finds and Penalizes Advertorials

Bill Hartzer

No website owner wants to log into Google Webmaster Tools and see an unnatural link warning from Google. From what I am seeing, many of these unnatural link warnings and manual penalties from Google are a result of having participated in advertorials. How Google Identifies Advertorials. First, a little background.

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Google Reconsideration Request: How to Get a Manual Penalty Lifted

Bill Hartzer

If you have ever received a manual penalty from Google , then you most likely have received this message in Google Webmaster Tools that could be an unnatural link warning , similar to this one that my client received: The message reads something like this: Dear site owner or webmaster of [link]. Sincerely, Google Search Quality Team.

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HOW TO: Guide to Performing Website Audits

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Over the past several years, Google and Bing have released guidelines for webmasters to make websites more crawlable. This is a consolidation of all the guidelines released by Google and Bing over the years to improve onsite optimization. Canonicalization and URL Structure. www or non-www, that is the question.

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