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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. Here is a screen capture of the article in question: First off, let me be clear that the company I work for is a proud corporate member of SEMPO.

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SEO in 2018, Which Practices You Should Avoid and Why.

Social Media Marketing

SEO is a never-ending race and marketers and bloggers know that. The guy wrote: “I recently commented on another thread regarding this, and I just did a double-take and Reddit comments indeed appear to not have the "nofollow"-relation? So are Reddit comments then essentially dofollow and SEO-worthy? How do they work?”

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Book Review: Social Media Marketing

Webbiquity SMM

With Social Media Marketing: Strategies for Engaging in Facebook, Twitter & Other Social Media , the inimitable Liana “Li&# Evans has provided the definitive handbook for social media marketers. This saves time, effort and money in the long run, but it’s a step too many companies skip over. Social Events (e.g.,

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12 Reasons Your Business Needs a Social Media Marketing Program.

Saying It Social

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials 12 Reasons Your Business Needs a Social Media Marketing Program YESTERDAY 1. Using social media enables your company to reach a huge number of potential customers.

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HOW TO: Guide to Performing Website Audits

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

BluePay is a credit card processing company that has fallen victim to content scraping. Noindex and Nofollow. Any irrelevant pages like terms of use, PDF files, privacy policy, and sitemaps should be nofollowed. Use your own discretion as to other pages you may want to nofollow. Scary, isn’t it? Title and Meta Tags.

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Online Reputation Management For Businesses: A Comprehensive Guide

Harp Interactive

Many big companies are regularly confronted with this Internet Reputation Management nightmare and have to employ strategies to push down negative press and relegate Google position of negative sites that malign their brands. Create Professional LinkedIn profiles with optimized links to the company website. Include negative keywords.

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Do Social Signals Drive SEO?

Convince & Convert

Being the savvy content marketer you are, you now set out to to bring an audience to that post. Many marketers believe this to be the case, and correlation studies like like this one from Searchmetrics , or or this from one Moz, encourage that belief. You just hit hit publish on that great new blog post. What a great feeling!

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