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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. A recent article on ClickZ , although well-written with good intent, is clearly an advertorial for SEMPO.org.

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8 Critical SEO and Digital Marketing Opportunities

Adam Sherk

So I put together a round-up of current SEO and digital marketing trends that offer good opportunities for publishers. Hosted and Mobile-Specific Article Formats. As a user I like the new hosted and mobile-specific article formats, be that Facebook Instant Articles , Apple News Format or Google’s AMP project.

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HOW TO: Guide to Performing Website Audits

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

To summarize the article, there should only be one URL used to get to the homepage of your website. Read my article on image optimization best practices for a full guide on optimizing images. I have put together a couple articles on this topic already. If you run an e-commerce site, check out my article on e-commerce microdata.

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Online Reputation Management For Businesses: A Comprehensive Guide

Harp Interactive

Below is a list of SEO and social media marketing techniques that you can use to ensure that the first page of Google search results for your brand related keywords does not include negative websites. Create link-bait campaigns with SEO article writing and submission to sites like Article Base and Ezine.

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How Much It Costs to Publish on Top Media Websites like Forbes, Entrepreneur, and BuzzFeed.com

Bill Hartzer

One of the more difficult tasks for some SEOs who aren’t great content marketers is to generate great content and actually get that content published on top media websites. We’ve always known that you can, in fact buy your way onto these sites, but what does it cost?

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The Most Important SEO Metrics For Backlinks Analysis

Kikolani

While links from quality sites can help you rank higher for more keywords, backlinks from bad sources can ruin all your marketing efforts. Hence why monitoring the links of your website is just as important as running a content marketing campaign to acquire quality links. Meta nofollow. Meta noindex. 302 moved temporarily.

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The Most Important SEO Metrics For Backlinks Analysis

Kikolani

While links from quality sites can help you rank higher for more keywords, backlinks from bad sources can ruin all your marketing efforts. Hence why monitoring the links of your website is just as important as running a content marketing campaign to acquire quality links. Meta nofollow. Meta noindex. 302 moved temporarily.

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