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More from Matt Cutts on no-follow no sculpting
Matt Cutts via Buzz: Let’s do another pass at the question “How does Google treat sites where all external links are no-follow?” The short answer is that we don’t treat those sites any differently in...
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Moving from WordPress.com to WordPress.org
The most common reason for moving from WordPress.com to WordPress.org is the desire to make money from advertizing and/or affiliate sales. In reality if your WordPress.com blog does not currently...
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Two SEO Videos for Bloggers
SEO is an acronym that stands for search engine optimization, which is the process of increasing the quantity and quality of traffic to your site from search engines. Generally, the higher your website...
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Google Style Guide and PageRank Update
To help web developers maintain a common style, on April 25th Google published its own HTML and CSS Style Guide containing best practices to encourage better coding etiquette. Google’s HTML/CSS Style...
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Keyword Metatags
The keywords metatag was a critical element for early search engines but hasn’t been used in search engine ranking since 2002. There is no such thing as setting a meta keyword tag for a WordPress.com...
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Shortened links and SEO
URL Shorteners are one the most popular free tools bloggers use today. There are benefits to using URL shorteners. Shortened links are convenient to use and are required on site like Twitter where...
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Surprise PageRank Update 2013
Though no Google PageRank update was expected until 2014 as the toolbar was broken, on December 6th there was an unexpected update. Relevancy and reliability are the two important elements of search...
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Blog strategy: Google sandbox or trustbox?
The sandbox debate arises when Google does not assign PageRank to a new site until after six (6) months, presumably to give new sites time to develop or disappear. Continue reading →
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Natural Linking Strategy for Bloggers
Readers have been asking me questions about linking strategy, and what follows is information for bloggers to consider when developing a natural linking strategy. Continue reading →
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Google PageRank removed from WebMasters Accounts
Did you notice that two weeks ago the PageRank distribution feature, once found in Google WebMasters accounts on the crawl stats section under “Diagnostics” was removed? Although it was removed from...
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Link building strategy: Locating similar sites
This article will introduce you an interesting way of finding high quality blogs related to your own - similar site search. It's free tool that's easy to use. You can find similar sites to add to your...
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Page Rank Update
On December 20, 2010 I decided to purchase a domain and domain mapping for this blog. I did so knowing that the authority, backlinks and PageRank earned by the root blog at wordpress.com belonged to...
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WordPress.com Followers Widget: No Thanks
Followers Widgets have become ubiquitous sidebar decorations in blogs as more blogging platforms and social networks are providing them. Followers Widgets dynamically display the visits to the blog by...
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Links: No-Follow and Do-Follow
In the beginning all links were do-follow. However, it didn’t take long before blogs were being inundated by those who left insincere comments lacking in value just so they could get a backlink, so...
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Google Update 2009 Reviewed
My transition into New Year blogging will be slower than I expected. I do have my own computer back but it has been completely rebuilt. The operating system has been updated and I have a new email...
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Natural Links: Google Warns Webmasters
Understanding backlinks is an important part of blogging. Links add valuable content to your site and the best linking building strategy is to get a lot of unpaid relevant non-reciprocal links (or...
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Google roots out content farms
What is a content farm and what does it do? ” … create a ton of niche, mostly uninspired content targeted to search engines, then make it viral through social software and make lots of money through...
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Maintaining Your Site’s Ranking
Newer domains and websites pass older sites all the time. How can an older site maintain its ranking over time? Matt Cutts, of Google answered that question in January 2014. Tune in, listen and learn....
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Bloggers Clean Up Your Comments
How do you feel about self serving fakes and pretenders online, who employ opportunistic means to drive traffic to their blog? How does approving and posting their comments on your site affect it?...
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How is blog or website content graded?
You may think your content is high quality but knowing how it’s rated can be an eye-opening experience. The quality of the main content can be determined by how well that content meets the purpose of...
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