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SEO Guidelines for Sponsored Content and Partner Links

Adam Sherk

However in any implementation it is important to comply with search engine guidelines to avoid negative repercussions for SEO. How do publishers ensure that sponsored content complies with Google’s guidelines? Related posts: Google JavaScript Changes Put Publishers in Violation of Sponsored Link Guidelines.

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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. As professional SEOs who are paid to know these guidelines and advise others, we should hold SEMPO and its Board of Directors to higher standards.

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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 Reconsideration Request: How to Get a Manual Penalty Lifted

Bill Hartzer

We’ve detected that some of your site’s pages may be using techniques that are outside Google’s Webmaster Guidelines. We encourage you to make changes to your site so that it meets our quality guidelines. Previously the webspam team had taken action on your site because we believed it violated our quality guidelines.

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The Most Important SEO Metrics For Backlinks Analysis

Kikolani

If you want to learn more about the backlinks that are violating Google’s guidelines , it’s best to check Google’s resources or watch the Webmaster Hangouts with John Mueller. To quickly determine if a link is dofollow or nofollow, you can install the Chrome Nofollow extension, which will highlight all nofollow links.

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The Most Important SEO Metrics For Backlinks Analysis

Kikolani

If you want to learn more about the backlinks that are violating Google’s guidelines , it’s best to check Google’s resources or watch the Webmaster Hangouts with John Mueller. To quickly determine if a link is dofollow or nofollow, you can install the Chrome Nofollow extension, which will highlight all nofollow links.

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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.