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What Is a NoFollow Link?

ClearVoice

More officially, it’s called PageRank. The nofollow value was created to combat spam around the internet. Links in press releases and any paid media. Links in forums, or just about any place with user generated comments/content. .” Have you heard of the term “ link juice ” in SEO?

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New & Improved: Announcing The Beginner's Guide To Link Building

Moz

Indeed, algorithms like Penguin, released years ago, are specifically designed to ignore many types of links. This chapter covers: Editorial Links (the most important kind) User-generated links Nofollow links Risky vs Non-risky links Sustainable links. Good outreach doesn't get marked as spam.

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Online Marketing News in 2009: The Year’s Hottest Events

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Facebook is awarded $711 million in damages from Sanford Wallace, the notorious "Spam King". Technorati release their state of the blogosphere - shows that most bloggers are just hobbiest and number one use of Twitter is to promote blogs. Facebook Reaches a Quarter Billion Users & a Billion Video Views. technologies.

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What Are Nofollow Backlinks? (And Why They Matter)

seo.co

By default, Google bots crawl the web on a constant basis, following links and using them to determine how PageRank is passed. It looks the same, it can be clicked the same way, and there’s no immediate clue to a user that the link is nofollow. Because nofollow links don’t pass PageRank, they can’t help your rankings directly.

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A Brief History of Search & SEO

Hubspot

It’s worth noting that nearly twelve years later, in June 2009, Microsoft released Bing -- its previous editions were also known as Live Search, Windows Live Search, and MSN Search. The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users.”. But here’s where SEO itself comes in.

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Natural vs. Unnatural Links: What’s the Difference? How to Build a Natural Backlink Profile

seo.co

For example, if all your links are confined to only two or three different sources, Google will conclude that you’re either spamming the links or you’ve engaged in some kind of mutual link scheme with those other sources. The advantage here is that users will still be able to see and click your links. Relevance of the Link.

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A Breakdown of HTML Usage Across ~8 Million Pages (& What It Means for Modern SEO)

Moz

The way HTML is written dictates what users see and how search engines interpret web pages. <meta name="google" content="nositelinkssearchbox"> “When users search for your site, Google Search results sometimes display a search box specific to your site, along with other direct links to your site. meta name="keywords".