Is there Value in NoFollow Links (and Google Link Attributes) ?
Google has encouraged website owners to use “nofollow” link attribute for years to mark self-serving, user-generated and paid links. Then in 2019, they added two more link attributes – rel=”sponsored” and rel=”ugc” – that would allow them to better understand link graphs. When introducing the two extra link attributes, Google also pointed out that they […]
- 01-20-2022
- Link Building
Can Low-Quality Content Hurt Your High-Quality Content?
Ever since Google’s Panda, SEOs have had a continuous debate: Can low-quality pages of the site negatively impact high-quality content and drag their rankings down? Most websites have a bunch of older, thin, outdated content that may have no positive signals (in terms of backlinks and traffic). Can those pages be holding your key pages […]
- 01-19-2022
Google Penalties Backlog and Mapping Your Backlinks to Known Link Sellers
See the Full Jim and Ann discussion in the video below. Have you recently received a dreaded manual penalty notification alerting you of a manual action Google has taken on your site? If it is backlink-related, you are likely to see a huge drop in organic clicks once you are penalized by Google. Your next […]
- 01-18-2022
- Link Building
Barry Schwartz Asks Jim Boykin About Link Building, Disavow, Domain Authority and More
Barry Schwartz from Search Engine Roundtable and Jim Boykin from Internet Marketing Ninjas have done a series of videos discussing important SEO topics and recent SEO trends. You can also watch all these videos on the Ninja Youtube channel! Barry and Boykin did 9 videos 1. Are Backlinks Still Important for SEO? Short Answer: Yes! […]
- 01-15-2022
- Search Engine Optimization
Get Notified When Your Social Media Account Is Hacked
There are a lot of programs out there that monitor your financial and personal accounts for suspicious activity. Some of them work better than others, and most are based around things like your credit report in order to find out if someone has been using your identity without your knowledge. As well as some programs […]
- 12-17-2021
- Social Media
How to Get Prepared for Google’s “Intrusive Interstitials” Update
A couple of weeks ago, Google has announced that exactly on January, 10, it will hit pages with “intrusive interstitials”. What does it mean? Let’s find out! What are interstitials? Interstitials are the web pages that show up before or after expected content page, usually as a popup or full-screen ad. They usually display ads […]
- 10-10-2021
How to Market Your Knowledge and Integrate Content Creation with Outreach and Relationship Building
Your knowledge and experience is your biggest asset. That’s what defines your business and that’s what helps you stand out. How to effectively market your knowledge online? Of course, content marketing is the answer. But simply creating expert content is not going to be answer. You need to put it forward in front of niche […]
- 07-17-2021
- Content
Scholarship Link Building – Penalized !
I believed in scholarship link building back about 15 to 20 years ago. It was a novel concept that seemed legit. Offer a scholarship on your website, then write to every school and college and ask them to add a link to your scholarship page on their site. Problem is, is that between about 2008 […]
- 05-25-2021
- Link Building
How To Control Your Video Search Snippet
We’ve talked about search and social snippets before. A rich snippet is what you see below your search listing enriched with rating stars, author information, a thumbnail, etc… scraped from the linked page. Google ranks videos inside so-called video carousels. Inside video carousels, Google often shows: The video thumbnail (which implies it’s a video) The […]
- 04-13-2021
- Search Engine Optimization
36 Online Video Tools for Simple Video Creation, Editing, and YouTube Management
[Updated 2021/06/25] Eyeballs are getting harder and harder to grab, especially on Facebook, where the auto-play feature has completely changed the landscape of the platform, both on desktop and mobile. Right now, video is the most engaging Facebook format. Uploading 60-90 second, funny, evergreen videos with captions and short text introductions is one of the […]
- 03-20-2021
- Video
