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Marketplace to Buy, Sell Links Based on Google Authorship and Klout Launched

Bill Hartzer

Buying and selling links based on Google’s PageRank has long been a controversial topic, as well as a violation of Google’s Webmaster Guidelines. As someone who has been practicing search engine optimization since 1996, I have seen many different SEO fads, schemes, and scams come up over the years. AuthorLinks Pricing.

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JVC Facebook Page Sweepstakes a Big Success. But Does it Violate.

Adam Sherk

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk JVC Facebook Page Sweepstakes a Big Success. But Does it Violate Facebook Guidelines? But does it violate Facebook’s promotions guidelines? So all this sounds great, but does it violate Facebook’s guidelines? Apparently it does.

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Alicia Keys Facebook Page: I'd Sign Up if She Asked Me All Cool

Adam Sherk

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Alicia Keys Facebook Page: I’d Sign Up if She Asked Me All Cool by Adam Sherk on January 19, 2010 Want to use your Facebook Page to build out your mailing list? But Does it Violate Facebook Guidelines? Alicia Keys knows how to do it.

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Google javascript Changes Put Publishers in Violation of Sponsored.

Adam Sherk

What Google doesn’t want is for those links to have SEO value, which is why their guidelines dictate that paid links are coded in a way that they will not pass PageRank. Previously, sponsored links in JavaScript such as those in the example above could not be read by crawlers and thus were in compliance with Google’s guidelines.

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Rich Snippets: Increase Google Visibility for Reviews through.

Adam Sherk

You can follow Google’s guidelines for marking up structured data to learn how to do it, including the specific properties for reviews. Google JavaScript Changes Put Publishers in Violation of Sponsored Link Guidelines Does Google News Sitemaps New Format Help Publishers? Initially Google is supporting data on reviews and people.

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Why Writing a Corporate Blog Can Be Fun (and Profitable Too)

Debbie Weil

I love her observation that "the networking goes on in the sidebar, too" through a carefully selected blogroll. So I fix up drafts sent to me as emails with great graphics and SEO-happy titles and make their authors proud. Read on for the dirt on corporate blogging. Sorry, couldn’t resist. So How Much Does it Cost?

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Yahoo Adds Enhanced News Results to searchmonkey

Adam Sherk

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Yahoo Adds Enhanced News Results to SearchMonkey by Adam Sherk on August 31, 2009 On Friday Yahoo announced new additions to its SearchMonkey enhanced results, including options for news content.

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