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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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Your Link Building Guide for 2018

Razor Social

Some of the articles are really good, but not all of them of course. Nofollow links also matter. Some links, for example, the ones from blog comments may have the rel=”nofollow” attribute. <a The nofollow attribute gives search engines instructions not to follow the link. What does this mean for you? Link placement.

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Do Social Signals Drive SEO?

Convince & Convert

All the social media sites NoFollow such links, which acts as an instruction to the search engines to not pass PageRank through those links. Of course, all of this is greatly facilitated by publishing great, unique, content. Correlation studies only measure correlation, they don’t measure causation.

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Google Reconsideration Request: How to Get a Manual Penalty Lifted

Bill Hartzer

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. Of course, there may be other issues with your site that could affect its ranking. Make a record of everything that you’re doing, so you can give this information to Google.

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Are Blog Comments Still Worthwhile … Or Are They a Waste of Time?

ProBlogger

Of course, you want to be noticed in a good way. Most blogs set their comment links to be “nofollow” ( WordPress does this by default ), which means the link you get will contribute very little (if anything) to your SEO efforts. Reason #2: You Want to Connect With the Blogger (and/or Their Readers).

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Build Backlinks – 14 Easy Ways

Convince & Convert

The ‘no-follow’ breaks the connection you are trying to make between one website and the next, defeating the purpose of a link from the perspective of Google optimization (people can of course still click the link and visit your site directly). But it’ s a fallacy that all social media sites have no-follows. Ezine Articles.

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Book Review: Social Media Marketing

Webbiquity SMM

Choose metrics that make the most sense for the tactics you’re employing, and monitor results to determine which activities to increase and where a change of course may be needed. In chapter 37, she almost seems to defend the insidious nofollow tag , which has outlived whatever useful life it once had and should be banished.

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