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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.

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Book Review: Social Media Marketing

Webbiquity SMM

As she notes in her introduction, Li’s book is organized around four main themes: Research: start by using search and social media monitoring tools to discover where your customers and prospects are congregating. Don’t automatically assume they use the most popular social networks. Social Events (e.g.,

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A Step by Step Guide to Fixing Any Google Penalty

Kikolani

Every web portal has to abide by Google’s webmaster guidelines to reach amongst the top ranking in search engine results. Social networking website URL if any. By documenting data you need not refer to various social networking websites every time you need an URL. Contact e-mail address. Website contact form.

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Link-building Tips and Tools for Bloggers in a Post-Panda and Penguin World

ProBlogger

This affected anyone who used article marketing as a way to build links and drive traffic to their websites, since article networks were hit the hardest , though some—like HubPages— regained their rankings in subsequent updates. Later, social networks like Digg, Last.fm, and others were affected as well.

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Paid Bloggers Still Get Google Downgrades

Bare Feet Studios

Bloggers who are compensated can use the “nofollow&# tag within their outbound links to keep those links from being tagged by Google as paid content. The nofollow may well make that harder, but then again, if you are under contract I think it’s the buyer’s responsibility to track the postings of the paid blogger.

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Mahalo Mr. Solis | Bare Feet Blog

Bare Feet Studios

The guidelines are not mandatory at this point tho they do clearly explain several best practices. at the Rotary Club of Honolulu Sunset May 28-30: Social Media Skills for Musicians: Twitter, Facebook, Blogging, & Podcasting at the N? Read the FAQ to get a good sense of the issues involved and how they are approaching this situation.

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Best Twitter Tips, Tools and Tactics of 2011

Webbiquity SMM

In just a few short years, Twitter has transformed from an odd little sort of public IM service where people posted what they just ate for lunch or what their cat was doing at the moment into one of the big four social networks and a significant channel for news, PR & marketing, politics and more.

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