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

Bill Hartzer

Here is a nifty, simple search engine optimization trick that I bet you didn’t know. I am not sure if Google has done this on purpose, but some links that are posted in Google Plus are automatically tagged with a nofollow link attribute, meaning that there is not any search engine optimization value added to the link.

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3 Great Safe Alternatives to Guest Blogging

Bill Hartzer

Guest blogging for SEO purposes started its downfall recently, especially with Google penalizing MyBlogGuest , and before that it was Google finding and penalizing advertorials. So, what’s the next best thing to guest blogging? What are the alternatives if you don’t want to participate in Guest Blogging?

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Why Your Search Engine Optimization Strategy Must Now Include Social Validation

Bill Hartzer

You probably have heard me preach it before: if at all possible, for search engine optimization purposes, your web site should include a blog or other section of your web site that includes articles. To rank well in the search engines, your web site needs new, fresh, topical content added on a regular basis.

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Takeaways from Google’s Updated Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide

Bill Hartzer

A while back, I took a long hard look at Google’s first version of the Google Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide. Google has now updated their Google Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide, along with some interesting information: interesting if you read between the lines ,so to speak, in the document. quality content.

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Ahrefs Review: How to Use Ahrefs to Analyze Your Blog

Razor Social

When was the last time you analyzed the inbound links pointing to your blog? If your backlink profile looks unnatural Google will penalize your blog which in turn harms your search engine ranking. This is why it’s important to identify and remove broken, old or poor quality links from your blog’s profile.

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HOW TO: Guide to Performing Website Audits

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Onsite optimization of websites is the most important factor in ranking better in search engine results. Bolding and italicizing text within paragraphs will show importance of the phrase to search engines. Cloaking content is a very risky practice which will get your website heavily penalized by search engines. Geo Redirects.

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Do Social Signals Drive SEO?

Convince & Convert

You just hit hit publish on that great new blog post. Do Search Engines Use Social Signals to Directly Drive Rankings? The theory is that content that gets shared a lot in social media may be seen as more valuable content by the search engines. Here is what happened when Google tried a search engine without links ).)

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