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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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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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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. In order for Google to “deal” with the thousands or tens of thousands of websites buying and selling paid links was a tremendous task. I’m using Search Engine Land in the example above.

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3 Great Safe Alternatives to Guest Blogging

Bill Hartzer

Links in all the content are typically nofollowed and comply with all FTC and Google Webmaster Guidelines. link building Search Engine Optimization' So, what’s the next best thing to guest blogging? Authors who have a good social media presence can apply to be an approved AuthPost author.

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Google Reconsideration Request: How to Get a Manual Penalty Lifted

Bill Hartzer

Examples of unnatural linking could include buying links to pass PageRank or participating in link schemes. As for links to be nofollowed if they bring you traffic but or paid or sponsored links, or are part of a guest post or advertorial. link building Search Engine Optimization' Again, record it in a spreadsheet.

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10 SEO Tactics That No Longer Work (If They Ever Did) | Small.

Small Business Mavericks

Did you just buy a nifty SEO book, or download one for free, that promises to tell you everything there is to know about SEO? Search Engine Submissions – Submit to all the search engines you want. The best search engines will crawl your site if it’s crawlable. You don’t need to submit to search engines.

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How Social Media Can Increase Your New Site’s Search Visibility

Socialmedia.biz

Search engines are placing higher importance on what’s coming from social media. The extent to which Google and other search engines are indexing and ranking social traffic is still relatively unclear, but one thing is quite clear, social media matters. Your content strategy alone isn’t enough when it comes to ranking higher in search.