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HOW TO: Guide to Performing Website Audits

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Over the past several years, Google and Bing have released guidelines for webmasters to make websites more crawlable. This is a consolidation of all the guidelines released by Google and Bing over the years to improve onsite optimization. Noindex and Nofollow. Use your own discretion as to other pages you may want to nofollow.

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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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Connecting Bloggers and Businesses Through Guest Blogging with PostJoint

Kikolani

You’ll first want to review the content snippet to make sure it is a good quality (see the guest posting guidelines set by PostJoint ) and the right fit for your blog audience. Earlier this year, Google took down major blogging networks as a part of link building schemes against their (new and improved) Webmaster Guidelines.

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Book Review: Social Media Marketing

Webbiquity SMM

Explain your goals and establish clear guidelines for any mention of the company on social media sites. You can’t just ‘leave your mark’ and expect success…Members of social media communities are no longer swayed by a coupon for 10% off or an invitation to try a new product. Instead, they want to connect.

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Link-building Tips and Tools for Bloggers in a Post-Panda and Penguin World

ProBlogger

Penguin, announced in April 2012, decreased search visibility of websites that participated in black-hat SEO, keyword stuffing, cloaking, link schemes , duplicate content, and other activities that violated Google Webmaster Guidelines. Join communities like My Blog Guest. This should be your immediate goal as well.

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Your Link Building Guide for 2018

Razor Social

Nofollow links also matter. Some links, for example, the ones from blog comments may have the rel=”nofollow” attribute. <a <a rel=”nofollow” href=” [link] “>Example of nofollow link</a> Any paid links must have the rel=”nofollow” attribute to comply with Google’s guidelines.

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Should We Continue To Trust Google? | Small Business Mavericks

Small Business Mavericks

But Google’s algorithm is also leading to more changes at EzineArticles (again, already with the strictest article approval guidelines of any article directory online). About Us What’s a Maverick? And why wasn’t Article Dashboard, the provider of the most popular article directory software, on that list?