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

Harp Interactive

Yet another proven method is to submit your website URL to web-directories with decent Google page rank, ex: Yahoo and D’moz. Create a list of reputable directories (categorize paid and free ). List the domains/urls you need to submit (don’t always submit the home page). 7 WAYS TO MAKE DIRECTORY SUBMISSIONS LESS PAINFUL!

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HOW TO: Guide to Performing Website Audits

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Canonicalization and URL Structure. Rather than wasting your time rehashing this topic, I have written a handy guide that explains URL structure best practices in full. To summarize the article, there should only be one URL used to get to the homepage of your website. Noindex and Nofollow. Title and Meta Tags.

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Web CEO SEO Software Platform Review

Kikolani

Choose ‘select a project’ and enter your site’s URL. The tool will display a list of keywords you can choose from, and there is an option to discover more related keywords for your niche based on search trends, global search volume, and competition bid. Each option can be expanded to see the URL of each link. That’s about it!

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How Google Finds and Penalizes Advertorials

Bill Hartzer

Google wants links in advertorials to be tagged with the nofollow attribute and the FTC requires full disclosure. The likelihood of a list of paid links appearing on the sidebar (the left or right side) of a page, and even in the footer, was very good. So how does Google find and penalize websites who have links from advertorials?

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Link Building Tactics for Publishers

Adam Sherk

I’ve put together a list of some of the main opportunities in broad categories. You’d be surprised at how many existing links (both internal and external) may be pointing to incorrect or discontinued URLs. Click on a URL with an error and then the “Linked from” tab to get a list of pages that are linking to it.

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Ahrefs Review: How to Use Ahrefs to Analyze Your Blog

Razor Social

Next to a detailed breakdown of where all your links are coming from, you can also see the value of those links through Domain Rating, URL Rating, External, and Social. UR or URL rating is in direct correlation with Google rankings and pages with high UR usually get better rankings in search engines. Fixing this (i.e.

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Why Your Search Engine Optimization Strategy Must Now Include Social Validation

Bill Hartzer

The search engines love fresh, unique content–and they love to find new URLs and links. They see your new URL and index it, but will rank it higher in the search results if they can find some reason to: and one of those reasons includes social validation. They might even see some links form other web sites to that new URL.