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How to Spot a Link Scheme (and Get Away Fast)

seo.co

Link building is a practical necessity if you want to increase your rankings in search engines. Search algorithms evaluate the trustworthiness of your site based in part on the number and quality of links pointing to it. What Is a Link Scheme? Why Are Link Schemes Bad? Link schemes are bad for everyone involved.

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Disavow Backlinks: A Complete Guide to Disavowing Backlinks in Google

seo.co

This isn’t fair if you’re not the one who built the link in the first place. Fortunately, Google has a tool that can help you – the Disavow Links tool. We’ll explain everything you need to know – and how to use the Google Disavow Links tool – in this guide. What Are Backlinks? What Are Backlinks? Back to basics.

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Topical SEO: 7 Advanced Concepts of Link Relevance & Google Rankings

Moz

Posted by Cyrus-Shepard Links matter for SEO. Most marketers understand that links to websites count as “votes” on the web. This is the popularity part of Google’s algorithm, described in the original PageRank patent. This is the popularity part of Google’s algorithm, described in the original PageRank patent.

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An Introduction to Black Hat SEO

Hubspot

Black hat SEO is a practice against search engine guidelines, used to get a site ranking higher in search results. Black hat techniques include keyword stuffing, cloaking, and using private link networks. They want people to have a great search experience and ensure the results they provide do not include spam. Keyword Stuffing.

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26 Google Webmaster Tools Videos Addressing Common B2B Link Building Questions

KoMarketing Associates

Last week we wrote a best practice guideline for a client, on how to acquire quality links in today’s SEO environment. In addition to healthy dose of Matt Cutts (Head of Google’s Webspam Team), these videos cover common questions, link building tactics, and the impact of link building schemes and questionable behavior.

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

Webbiquity

just want to highlight that a bunch of low-quality or spam sites have latched on to ‘guest blogging’ as their link-building strategy, and we see a lot more spammy attempts to do guest blogging. or worse, to something sketchy like an online pharmacy site); and 2) the author’s approach to the links.

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Your competitors are doing SEO

Biznology

In the last few months I have been retained by a number of clients to help some very large sites, with thousands of pages, bring their websites back inline with Google’s best practices, namely making sure that each and every page sports a unique page title, a unique description, as well as unique body content.