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Guest Blogging is NOT Dead (And Matt Cutts Didn’t Say It Is)

Webbiquity

Compensation: Matt calls this out specifically in his post, noting that “email offering money to get links that pass PageRank (are) a clear violation of Google’s quality guidelines.” Possibly even to—under the right circumstances—write your own guest post for that person’s blog?

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Black Hat SEO: 19 Short-Sighted SEO Tactics that Will Kill Your Rankings

seo.co

If you get an invitation to join a private blog network where automatic backlinks are a selling point, it’s probably a link farm. On the flip side, if you’re selling and hosting paid links, you may want to consider a different approach. When this attribute is present search engines will ignore the link in terms of flowing PageRank.

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The Four Rhinos of Bad SEO Tactics: What Has to Go for Good

ClearVoice

Google’s Link schemes documentation tells you everything you need to know, but here’s a quick snapshot: Don’t buy or sell links that pass PageRank. Take it easy on excessive link exchanging and cross-linking (like on partner pages). Use rel=”nofollow” on links when you don’t want to pass PageRank. Hidden links.

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How to Promote Your Content Online in 2023

seo.co

There are several ways you can do this, including working together with other authorities to produce content that each of you can promote, cross promoting your materials, or even simply earning a mention from a well-known industry figure. Selling the post. Choose which platforms you want to use and draft a post for each of them.

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How to Build a Kickass Content Strategy for SEO

seo.co

But personally, I think the more accurate analogy is the tagline to the movie Alien: “in space, no one can hear you scream.”. Selling the post. It’s a common, but lazy technique to simply include the article’s headline as the opener—it may be in your best interest to optimize this text to really sell the post.