Category: Link Building Tips & SEO

I think I’ve seen it all, covering search for over 13 years but every day, I learn a bit more. I spotted a conversation on Twitter where someone asked Google’s John Mueller if they can use Google Sheets to build links…

Google’s Gary Illyes said this morning on Twitter that it makes sense to use the nofollow link attribute when you link to bad sites.

Sometimes when I cover stories here, I have to link to examples of really bad sites…

On Friday, Google’s John Mueller and Gary Illyes both made stern comments about directory links. Gary’s was the most telling…

John Mueller from Google said on Twitter that links from adult or pornographic sites are not automatically considered spam by Google. In fact, he said they are not always even problematic for your site’s rankings…

Like it or not, many SEOs use the disavow backlinks feature within Google which launched in 2012 mostly based on webmaster feedback.

But sometimes the disavow file can cause a headache for webmasters…

In mid-January 2005, Google pushed out the nofollow attribute to give webmasters a way to tell Google that this link does now count. Shortly after, SEOs and webmasters started to go on a “dofollow” campaign…

There is a fun WebmasterWorld thread where a publisher of “design elements” said many publishers and web sites use their design elements they post for free and often link back to them after using it but that link contains a nofollow attribute…
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An old topic of web design by or site credit links – should you put them on web sites and if so, should they pass link juice?

So if I design a web site for you, can I put “site designed by Barry” and link that to my site…

An old topic of web design by or site credit links – should you put them on web sites and if so, should they pass link juice?

So if I design a web site for you, can I put “site designed by Barry” and link that to my site…

A WebmasterWorld thread has discussion around link removals requests and if web sites should have a printed policy for how they handle link removal requests.

Truth is, if your site is at all popular…

A few weeks ago we polled you guys asking if Google should retire the nofollow attribute.

With over 300 responses in, I wanted to share the results…

Back in July, we polled you guys asking your view on how Google sees link building, ie is it spam or not. We have just about 500 responses thus far and truth is…

As you remember, Google launched a new algorithm for HTTPS ranking where they give you a tiny boost in the rankings for going HTTPS/SSL with your site.

Back in the days before Google, online usability folks were all about making user friendly hyperlinks that communicated to the user what the link was about and what to expect when they clicked it. That means…

Not only have webmasters claimed negative SEO works, they are saying it is much easier to implement these days than in the past.

Now, if you are worried about negative SEO, which apparently many of you are. I want you to be able to do something about…

The topic of getting links to boring web sites or web sites that compete with dozens or hundreds of other web sites is not new…

The other day we covered a topic on hold Bing’s Duane Forrester has a bold statement that you shouldn’t know where your links are coming from and honestly, I think it is awesome advice but people may take it to mean, if you do, it may lead to a penalty…

One trend we’ve seen in the past year or so is that link builders are now extremely busy with link removals. Getting links to your web site has never been easy, it is a talent to get webmasters to read your link requests. But getting link removed is …

You know selling and buying links is against Google’s guidelines right…

Remember that study Eric Enge published that said Google+ has no ranking benefit…