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SEO Guidelines for Sponsored Content and Partner Links

Adam Sherk

This topic has been in the news recently with Google first issuing a reminder that any links within sponsored content should not pass PageRank. Make sure that links within sponsored content have the “nofollow” attribute or are coded so that they are inaccessible to crawlers. Sponsored Content Compliance.

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Survey: Pinterest a Great Source of Links for Publishers. What Types of Sites Get the Most Links?

Adam Sherk

News & Tech 50,690 4,267. News & Tech 152,218 9,498. But What About Nofollow? External links on Pinterest have the nofollow attribute which takes way their direct SEO value (a necessary step to combat abuse). Yahoo News Syndication: Attribution Links Not SEO-Friendly. Food 612,238 12,886.

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Link Building Tactics for Publishers

Adam Sherk

When it comes to link building publishers have a significant advantage because editorial content, be it hard news or evergreen content, lends itself naturally to linking and sharing. In addition producing quality content on a daily basis creates a steady stream of new opportunities. Smart syndication. Shine or MSN Living.

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How Social Media Can Increase Your New Site’s Search Visibility

Socialmedia.biz

Even though social media links are nofollow, you’ll still get a bit of authority and you’ll be sharing your name with potential new customers across multiple social media platforms. On the flip side of the search ranking coin, it’ worth noting that search is no longer happening solely on Google, Bing, Yahoo, and the like.

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Go Beyond Blogging – Multi-Channel Marketing via Online Media

ProBlogger

The good news is, all blog software automatically provide this feature out of the box. Break news. This is possible if you have insider access to news, but if you don’t, being one of the first to blog about a story may result in links from A-list blogs and news outlets. They have to be news-worthy.

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How to Go Beyond Blogging and Harness Multi-Channel Marketing

ProBlogger

The good news is, all blog software automatically provide this feature out of the box. Break news. This is possible if you have insider access to news, but if you don’t, being one of the first to blog about a story may result in links from A-list blogs and news outlets. They have to be news-worthy.

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Paid Bloggers Still Get Google Downgrades

Bare Feet Studios

To its credit, Google also penalized its own Japan division who used the pay per post tactic in an attempt to compete against Yahoo. 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.

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