Bill Hartzer

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

No website owner wants to log into Google Webmaster Tools and see an unnatural link warning from Google. From what I am seeing, many of these unnatural link warnings and manual penalties from Google are a result of having participated in advertorials. How Google Identifies Advertorials. First, a little background.

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 3, 2013

This topic has been in the news recently with Google first issuing a reminder that any links within sponsored content should not pass PageRank. How do publishers ensure that sponsored content complies with Google’s guidelines? In addition, do not include sponsored content in your Google News sitemap.

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Bill Hartzer

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

If you have ever received a manual penalty from Google , then you most likely have received this message in Google Webmaster Tools that could be an unnatural link warning , similar to this one that my client received: The message reads something like this: Dear site owner or webmaster of [link]. Sincerely, Google Search Quality Team.

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Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 2, 2011

» Should We Continue To Trust Google? I’ve already written about Google’s recent algorithm update that has resulted in many websites losing search rankings while benefiting WikiHow and eHow, both considered content farms by many SEOs and Internet marketers. Google, puh-lease! I blame Google.

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Social Media Marketing

JULY 4, 2018

In order to achieve success in the SEO world, it's important to stay updated on Google's changes, impact and new avenues, therefore, these are some important pieces of advice on which practices you should avoid while optimising your content online. SEO is a never-ending race and marketers and bloggers know that. How do they work?”

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Razor Social

APRIL 4, 2018

Over to Helga: Google, as well as other search engines, consider links the primary factors for ranking websites and pages. It is increasing search traffic from Google. There are many factors which determine the weight of a particular link in Google and its impact on future rankings. Nofollow links also matter.

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 5, 2009

While it’s good news that Google is continuing to improve its ability to deal with JavaScript, this change also impacts the way that many publishers display sponsored links on their sites. Is Google going to run out and start penalizing sites with sponsored links in JavaScript? Google News Wants Title Tags to Match Headlines?

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 14, 2012

I spend a lot of time auditing websites which means I am regularly in the Google Webmaster Tools profiles for a variety of sites. 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).

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Bill Hartzer

JANUARY 6, 2014

Dear Shady SEO Firm: Would you please stop, immediately, from spreading false and untrue rumors about the Google Disavow Tool? By spreading false rumors, you’re hurting the SEO industry as a whole and making it even more difficult for us honest, Google-Webmaster-Acceptable-Guideline-Abiding SEOs to get our jobs done properly.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Over the past several years, Google and Bing have released guidelines for webmasters to make websites more crawlable. This is a consolidation of all the guidelines released by Google and Bing over the years to improve onsite optimization. Duplicate content on pages is another way to get on Google’s black list.

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Kikolani

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

To maintain your organic traffic growth and assure that your site is safe from any Google penalty, it’s wise to perform an in-depth backlinks analysis. That’s mostly because Google has never shared their SEO ranking factors. Google hasn’t updated the toolbar for more than two years, and recently they have removed it completely.

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Kikolani

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

To maintain your organic traffic growth and assure that your site is safe from any Google penalty, it’s wise to perform an in-depth backlinks analysis. That’s mostly because Google has never shared their SEO ranking factors. Google hasn’t updated the toolbar for more than two years, and recently they have removed it completely.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 21, 2012

While the role of social media signals in Google and Bing’s ranking algorithms is still evolving there are already a number of ways that social media is having a clear influence. Both Google and Bing use social data to annotate select listings on their search engine results pages. See the Google help link above for details.

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Kikolani

DECEMBER 8, 2015

If your website is receiving reduced web traffic or the present strategy in place is not working as efficiently as it once did then you probably have been penalized by Google. Every web portal has to abide by Google’s webmaster guidelines to reach amongst the top ranking in search engine results. Why did we get the Penalty?

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Harp Interactive

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Negative websites whose sole purpose is to provide a platform for your disgruntled customers to malign your brand (your keyword) can show up in Google search results and invade your search real estate. TV); enlist popular bloggers to avoid Google Clustering. Create sub domains, blogs, media channels (.TV);

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Adam Sherk

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

It also creates links back to your site: At the moment the attribution links do not have the nofollow attribute, which means they have SEO value as well. And even nofollow links have indirect SEO benefits since users who come across them may choose to link or share the content elsewhere. 10 Practical Twitter Tips for Publishers.

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Bill Hartzer

MARCH 24, 2014

Guest blogging for SEO purposes started its downfall recently, especially with Google penalizing MyBlogGuest , and before that it was Google finding and penalizing advertorials. Links in all the content are typically nofollowed and comply with all FTC and Google Webmaster Guidelines.

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Bare Feet Studios

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

The latest Google search algorithm update (nicknamed Penguin) has moved strongly towards the long held principles of “organic seo.” In general, each of these major updates is to help Google answer real questions from its users. Page Rank is a logarithmic scale used by Google to rank the quality and validity of websites.

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Ignite Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Well, Google has repeatedly denied that they use social signals for SEO ranking purposes. All social media sites use NoFollow links, which tells the search engines to not pass PageRank through to those links. Social media posts are able to be indexed, just like any other page online, but that doesn’t mean Google indexes them all.

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Kikolani

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Let’s face it: most commentators on any blog appreciate a high-quality backlink or two – after all, link building is still the cornerstone of top Google rankings. It’s as if Kristi is saying to Google “ This site I am linking to can be trusted. How do you know whether a blog is Do or Nofollow?

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Convince & Convert

OCTOBER 30, 2014

A day later you notice the post has been indexed by Google, and it’s at #4 on the second page one of your main keywords. A week later, you check that keyword again in Google, and lo and behold, it’s now at #5 on page one. Here is what happened when Google tried a search engine without links ).) Not great but it’s a start.

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Kikolani

DECEMBER 12, 2014

Then connect Google analytics if you want SEO reports with valuable data on your social media engagement and visitor traffic. Additionally, you can specify locations for Google’s search engine. Then add your social profile URLs: Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and YouTube are supported. Adding Your Website(s). That’s about it!

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 14, 2015

As a user I like the new hosted and mobile-specific article formats, be that Facebook Instant Articles , Apple News Format or Google’s AMP project. App Indexing for both Google and Apple is another growing trend. The support information on the Google Developers site covers the main opportunities. Google News.

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Razor Social

MARCH 23, 2017

Google is looking at your link profile, so you should be too! If your backlink profile looks unnatural Google will penalize your blog which in turn harms your search engine ranking. UR or URL rating is in direct correlation with Google rankings and pages with high UR usually get better rankings in search engines.

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Viper Chill

JANUARY 27, 2014

Whether or not an idea fits perfectly within Google’s guidelines. This may seem like quite a strange topic for someone who, for eight years, has been highly focused on the Google “right way” Not too much has changed there because I still believe in the Google way. GoDaddy Makes Google Their B h (Again).

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Saying It Social

MARCH 22, 2010

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials It’s Time to Think about Integrating Search & Social Media Google and Microsoft’s Bing recently struck deals to incorporate social media into their real-time search results. Direct connections from links on your Google profile.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 9, 2011

Google optimization is based on the premise that the more people that like to your website, the more valuable it must be and the higher ranking it deserves in search results. But you have to start Google optimization some where. These are all real links, and are entirely legitimate and approved for optimization by Google.

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Kikolani

DECEMBER 25, 2009

Google News doesn’t accept single author blogs ? Nofollow blogs vs. Dofollow blogs. Google Adwords – pros and cons. Get the best out of Google Sites. Are you ready for Google PageRank 2010 update ? Tools and resources to learn advanced Google operators. 6 reasons your business needs Google Voice.

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Kikolani

JUNE 21, 2012

Latest blog post links are nofollow. Be sure to follow Kristi on Twitter , Facebook , and Google+. Latest blog post links are dofollow. Edit your profile and add your RSS feed in the External Blog Feed field. Digital Point – Search engine optimization and marketing forum. Related Posts. Reasons to Love CommentLuv Blogs.

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Kikolani

DECEMBER 29, 2015

I know what you’re thinking: What about the penguin and panda updates from Google? Look at their rankings on Google, and how many social media followers they have. The final thing you should look for is whether or not their links are Dofollow or Nofollow. These are high quality links. This is important for SEO purposes.

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Kikolani

OCTOBER 25, 2012

You won’t get classified as part of a blog network (and face the wrath of Google). Earlier this year, Google took down major blogging networks as a part of link building schemes against their (new and improved) Webmaster Guidelines. Be sure to follow Kristi on Twitter , Facebook , and Google+. Related Posts.

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Viper Chill

MARCH 4, 2010

You are here: ViperChill » SEO » How to Really Build Backlinks and Dominate Google How to Really Build Backlinks and Dominate Google Written by Glen, this post has 160 Comments Without a doubt, the most frequent post request I’ve had on this site is a post about link building. Google lets you find awesome websites.

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Kikolani

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

You can use the settings option for WP RSS Aggregator to configure features such as limit the number of posts shown on each page, limit the number of feed items stored from each feed source, make the links nofollow, and whether you would like the new links to open in a new page. Use the RSS Subscription Extension on Google Chrome.

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Adam Sherk

MAY 14, 2013

A good way to investigate this is to review the Crawl Errors report in Google Webmaster Tools, which shows URLs with 404, 500 and other errors that Google encountered while crawling the site. So maintain a decent selection of feeds and don’t let the impending shutdown of Google Reader move you away from RSS.

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Saying It Social

JUNE 3, 2010

SEO benefits: Many social media bookmarking sites use NOFOLLOW tags that limit the outbound link value of posts made on their sites, but there are still many leading sites that allow DOFOLLOW tags — including Friendfeed, Digg, and Mixx. Videos from popular sites like YouTube can also be optimized for indexing by the major search engines.

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Socialmedia.biz

JULY 14, 2016

The extent to which Google and other search engines are indexing and ranking social traffic is still relatively unclear, but one thing is quite clear, social media matters. Moz conducted a study in the same year and found that pages with activity from Google+, Facebook, Twitter, and general comments tend to rank higher.

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Kikolani

JULY 28, 2010

Do you have a Google account (ie. Login, and visit the Google Profiles area to add your blog (along with your social networks and other websites) to your profile. Even if it is nofollow or not visible to the public, you will get some significant traffic from other members if you are a valuable contributor. Forum Signatures.

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