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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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Why Your Search Engine Optimization Strategy Must Now Include Social Validation

Bill Hartzer

You probably have heard me preach it before: if at all possible, for search engine optimization purposes, your web site should include a blog or other section of your web site that includes articles. To rank well in the search engines, your web site needs new, fresh, topical content added on a regular basis.

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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. The sole link in the article does not have a “nofollow” attribute added to the link. Marketing' Why I have a problem with this.

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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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8 Critical SEO and Digital Marketing Opportunities

Adam Sherk

So I put together a round-up of current SEO and digital marketing trends that offer good opportunities for publishers. 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. So make sure to get it right.

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Your Link Building Guide for 2018

Razor Social

Helga Moreno is a passionate content creator and marketer at Ahrefs and she has written this fantastic post about link building. Over to Helga: Google, as well as other search engines, consider links the primary factors for ranking websites and pages. Nofollow links also matter. It’s still really important.

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5 Ways that Social Media Impacts SEO

Adam Sherk

How does social media activity impact search engine optimization? Here are five ways that social media impacts SEO, or more specifically search engine visibility, rankings and traffic: 1. Both Google and Bing use social data to annotate select listings on their search engine results pages. Hopefully you’ll find it useful.

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