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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. The article only has one outgoing link, to SEMPO.org. -

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

Harp Interactive

Designate a credit card and in a Word document write all the info you will need to fill out for the payment process so you don’t have to type it in each time. This is optional, but recommended to check Anchor text, Page rank, Number of outbound links, Availability of the page, Presence of meta tags “nofollow” and “noindex” etc.

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The Most Important SEO Metrics For Backlinks Analysis

Kikolani

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. Even if you are reading an article from a trusted site, make sure you checked the date when that was written, and it has up to date information.

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The Most Important SEO Metrics For Backlinks Analysis

Kikolani

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. Even if you are reading an article from a trusted site, make sure you checked the date when that was written, and it has up to date information.

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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 would like to note that those text link ads do not appear to have the “nofollow” attribute on them. That one outgoing link is close to, or at the end of a promotional-type sentence.

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Ahrefs Review: How to Use Ahrefs to Analyze Your Blog

Razor Social

The type of links displayed are: NoFollow – These links pretty much have no value to your website in terms of SEO. For example, most links from blog comments are NoFollow because too many spammers were using comments to get links. With Ahrefs you can get that information with just one click. Here’s how it works.

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UGC, Sponsored Are The Two New Nofollow Link Attributes Introduce By Google

BeingOptimist

That is why they have recently launched two more nofollow link attributes that is UGC and sponsored. So, Recently Google has unfolded two new attributes of the nofollow link, and from now onwards nofollow link attributes (rel=”nofollow”) would be considered as a “hint” rather than as a directive for ranking purposes.