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SEO Guidelines for Sponsored Content and Partner Links

Adam Sherk

Make sure that links within sponsored content have the “nofollow” attribute or are coded so that they are inaccessible to crawlers. While Google claims to already discount most affiliate links, from an SEO perspective the safest course is to treat them like sponsored links and make them nofollow or inaccessible to crawlers.

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

Adam Sherk

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. Lifestyle content is the big winner but there are good opportunities for publishers in nearly any topical area.

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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. This is optional, but recommended to check Anchor text, Page rank, Number of outbound links, Availability of the page, Presence of meta tags “nofollow” and “noindex” etc. Bookmark them for later use.

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Link Building Tactics for Publishers

Adam Sherk

Syndication deals are another popular form of partnership, as publishers syndicate content on other news sites, or in the case of evergreen content, portals like Yahoo! In some cases like Yahoo, the links within syndicated content are nofollow (and they often point to Yahoo tracking URLs with 302 redirects) and thus do not pass SEO value.

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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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10 Premium SEO Tools That You Can Try for Free (or Cheap)

Kikolani

Rank Tracker – Our Rank Tracker allows you to check, track, and monitor where your site lands in Google, Yahoo, and Bing. You can see everything about your link profile quickly: homepage vs. deep links, high authority vs. low quality links, nofollow vs. dofollow, website category, website type, and more.

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Go Beyond Blogging – Multi-Channel Marketing via Online Media

ProBlogger

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. It is more about prioritizing your time to get the most out of social sites and activities.