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Survey: Pinterest a Great Source of Links for Publishers. What Types of Sites Get the Most Links?

Adam Sherk

As Pinterest continues to grow in popularity and usage it is becoming not only an important source of traffic and engagement for publishers but also a good source of links. But What About Nofollow? External links on Pinterest have the nofollow attribute which takes way their direct SEO value (a necessary step to combat abuse).

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8 Critical SEO and Digital Marketing Opportunities

Adam Sherk

Both through improved ranking signals and indirectly through increased user activity and engagement signals. For this, it is essential to adhere to search engine requirements such as making all links to sponsor sites nofollow and preventing indexation in Google News. User Actions and Engagement Signals.

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Web CEO SEO Software Platform Review

Kikolani

Then connect Google analytics if you want SEO reports with valuable data on your social media engagement and visitor traffic. It also provides an insight if links are juicy or nofollow, and PR of the domain. You will want to add your website to the dashboard to get started. Choose ‘select a project’ and enter your site’s URL.

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Google javascript Changes Put Publishers in Violation of Sponsored.

Adam Sherk

It can be done by redirecting the sponsored links to an intermediate page that is blocked via robots.txt, or by applying the nofollow attribute to the JavaScript links (see the Vanessa Fox writeup as well as the second half of this article in SEL for more detail). Related posts: Does Google News Sitemaps New Format Help Publishers?

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Google Reconsideration Request: How to Get a Manual Penalty Lifted

Bill Hartzer

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. Make a record of everything that you’re doing, so you can give this information to Google. Again, record it in a spreadsheet. Contact the site owners of links that you want removed.

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Increase Traffic and Authority by Listing Your Blog

Kikolani

Adding your blog to the PostRank system (if it’s not already there) and under particular topic categories, you can get ranked in the top blogs on that topic based on your blog’s social engagement. There are a number of great networks specifically built for bloggers for the purpose of bookmarking, forums, groups, and networks.

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Link Building Tactics for Publishers

Adam Sherk

In some cases like Yahoo, the links within syndicated content are nofollow (and they often point to Yahoo tracking URLs with 302 redirects) and thus do not pass SEO value. So increasing social media activity and engagement is vital in its own right. So it is a vehicle for link development too.