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HOW TO: Guide to Performing Website Audits

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Canonicalization and URL Structure. www or non-www, that is the question. 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.

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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.

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The Most Important SEO Metrics For Backlinks Analysis

Kikolani

To quickly determine if a link is dofollow or nofollow, you can install the Chrome Nofollow extension, which will highlight all nofollow links. Whenever you come to a site that links out to external sources with nofollow links, it will look like in the screenshot below. Meta nofollow. Meta noindex.

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The Most Important SEO Metrics For Backlinks Analysis

Kikolani

To quickly determine if a link is dofollow or nofollow, you can install the Chrome Nofollow extension, which will highlight all nofollow links. Whenever you come to a site that links out to external sources with nofollow links, it will look like in the screenshot below. Meta nofollow. Meta noindex.

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Google Reconsideration Request: How to Get a Manual Penalty Lifted

Bill Hartzer

If you have any questions about how to resolve this issue, please see our Webmaster Help Forum for support. As for links to be nofollowed if they bring you traffic but or paid or sponsored links, or are part of a guest post or advertorial. Notate the URL of the spreadsheet and include that in your Google reconsideration request.

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7 Ways to Start Building an Audience for Your New Blog

ProBlogger

You fill in your name, email address (which only the blogger can see) and your blog’s URL, as well as writing the comment itself. And by default most WordPress comments sections apply the “nofollow” attribute to all links, so there’s no point in commenting just to create a backlink to your blog. #3: 5: Answer Questions on Forums.

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How Rich Answers Provide a New Approach to SEO

Convince & Convert

”: In the smaller red rectangle on the left, you see that Google answers the question directly, telling you that he was born on August 4, 1961. Consider this response to the query, “How to make an upside down pineapple cake”: Notice how the answer to this question is obtained by Google from AllRecipes.com.

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