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How To: Make Your Links Do Follow Links in Google Plus

Bill Hartzer

There is actually a way to make sure that the links you post in Google+ are considered to be “do follow” links. To show this, I have turned on a Firefox add-on that shows whether or not a link is “nofollow” or not. It is a “nofollow” link: Click on the image above it in order to enlarge it.

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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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Directory Submissions for Backlinks: Tips n’ Tricks to Get Some Love from Google

Harp Interactive

The more that relevant websites link to your website, the better Google likes you. Similarly, when a website links to your website, Google considers it a recommendation or a vote of confidence and increases your ranking. It is authority by association. Additionally, you can create social media accounts that link back to your website.

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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. As a user I like the new hosted and mobile-specific article formats, be that Facebook Instant Articles , Apple News Format or Google’s AMP project. App Indexing for both Google and Apple is another growing trend.

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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. In order to achieve success in the SEO world, it's important to stay updated on Google's changes, impact and new avenues, therefore, these are some important pieces of advice on which practices you should avoid while optimising your content online. How do they work?”

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Google javascript Changes Put Publishers in Violation of Sponsored.

Adam Sherk

While it’s good news that Google is continuing to improve its ability to deal with JavaScript, this change also impacts the way that many publishers display sponsored links on their sites. Is Google going to run out and start penalizing sites with sponsored links in JavaScript? Google News Wants Title Tags to Match Headlines?

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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. Duplicate content on pages is another way to get on Google’s black list.

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