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NoFollow Links in Press Releases? How To Revise Your Press Release Strategy

Bill Hartzer

Recently, Google took the position that press releases were simply link schemes , advertorials for a business. Therefore, all links in press releases should have the nofollow attribute added to the links, so that the press release does not pass any SEO ( Search Engine Optimization ) value to the website it’s linking to.

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Online Reputation Management For Businesses: A Comprehensive Guide

Harp Interactive

Many big companies are regularly confronted with this Internet Reputation Management nightmare and have to employ strategies to push down negative press and relegate Google position of negative sites that malign their brands. Online Reputation Management or counter-SEO is a specialized area that requires professional skills and tools.

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Link Building Tactics for Publishers

Adam Sherk

For traditional publishers, link building typically falls within the third main bucket of a comprehensive SEO program, which includes technical, editorial and marketing initiatives. However there are plenty of benefits to link development beyond SEO, in particular driving traffic, increasing awareness and building audience.

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10 SEO Tactics That No Longer Work (If They Ever Did) | Small.

Small Business Mavericks

» 10 SEO Tactics That No Longer Work (If They Ever Did) Confused about SEO? Did you just buy a nifty SEO book, or download one for free, that promises to tell you everything there is to know about SEO? If your SEO guru or free e-book download is telling you to do these 10 things, fire him or throw the book away.

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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. I can’t imagine they would, especially when virtually no one outside of the developer and SEO communities is even aware that this change has taken place.

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A Step by Step Guide to Fixing Any Google Penalty

Kikolani

Majestic SEO: This website significantly reduces the efforts as it will show all your previous links instead of just the most recent ones. Avoid posting links on random or affiliated websites rather nofollow the link or remove them. Site wide links should be carefully monitored. Sit back and wait. You have done whatever you could.

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Go Beyond Blogging – Multi-Channel Marketing via Online Media

ProBlogger

Learn basic SEO. Send out press releases. Here are some useful online networking tips that I hope I’ve learned years ago when I got started: Leave comments on other blogs Comments with nofollow attribute is still valuable because what you seek for is connecting with the blogger. They have to be news-worthy.