Google thinks you are selling links, or passing your link juice to sites you shouldn't be (advertorials would fall under this list). If you linked out to advertorials or accidentally to sites that garnered you this penalty, find them and no-follow...
MJ: When it comes to pushing content, which social sharing platforms do you believe carry the most "juice" for search engines? RG: For Bing, the social platforms with the most juice are Twitter and Facebook, because they have direct integration...
Quality is one thing (how much juice the link carries), but trust is entirely another thing. The Link Graph – Bad Neighborhoods Expect this process to accelerate now the search giant has so much data on "spammy links" and swathes of link profiles...
The jury is out on what happens to link juice or other page authority signals Bing keeps track of. A new tool in Bing Webmaster Tools will help webmasters performing site moves. Whether you're moving URL structure around internally or changing your...
More recent discussions of cocitation have shifted the focus away from link juice and toward the words used around links. But this orientation can lead to link juice hoarding. Link juice flows backwards as well as forward
Most are unnatural and none pass the juice that they once did. The worst time to conduct a link audit is when you need to. That said, EVERY link that falls outside of the webmaster guidelines must be cleaned up via link removal, or as a last resort...
Meanwhile SEO pros are drinking the link juice and speaking in foreign languages like html and might say something like: “PR people just don’t get it! The more useful content you have, the greater the chances someone else will find that content...
Most are unnatural and none pass the juice that they once did. Link to URL: The page (URL) on your website the link points to. Since all of the major back link services have their own version of Google PageRank, we’ll start by exporting the data...
Ah, don’t you miss the good ol’ days when a link was a vote for your website and you could stack ‘em up high and watch the link juice flow? Your competitors are crushing you with link building .not the typical "get a thousand PR1's and watch the...
As an added bonus, as well as buying time for the site, Google may also be seeing this link as a header link, passing even more link juice across because of it. Look at almost any of the sites positioned in the top 10 search results on google.co.uk...
If it's not pretty easily found, that link is going to another site: that of your competitor.errors: Shari Thurow had a great point in a comment on a recent post of mine where I said that if you didn't have certain content available anymore, 301...
It also explains how links pass differing amounts of "juice" based on who is searching or how or what they are searching for. As a result relevance is now the key to link building and value adding content the currency of it all.
How much the permanent traffic loss will be depends on what percentage of the link juice that used to drive your rankings came from bad links. I have seen a lot of people with link problems during the course of this year.
Once you have your motley collection of weird and wonderful links (in SEW's case, mostly hacked forums and scraper sites, although for a properly dodgy link profile you'd be looking for sites actively selling links), it's time to put them into...
There's more to life than link juice. Thinking that you need to "conserve" link juice is just the slightest bit stingy. Think Rae Hoffman-Dolan's amazing series "Link Building With The Experts. Whether you're starting from scratch or looking to...
All anchor text was "unnatural" with the sole purpose of driving link juice to the main site and rank it higher. These posts were added gradually with a rather normal link velocity. The data was tracked and benchmarked through cognitiveSEO...
As discussed in the video above (and witnessed many times in practical application) the addition of these links passes more “juice” to those pages (the simple math is, two links to a page gives it twice the weight – we'll go with that for our...
Some people nofollow them in order to prevent them from receiving any link juice. Many people nofollow these links in an effort to conserve link juice, but that practice is becoming a bit more frowned upon recently.
Assuming that Google does use the commenter's profile to verify that the author is a legitimate person, it would open the door for Google to allow links within comments to pass juice to the sites to which they link.
All this aside, with an informed link building strategy any link builder will actively seek to obtain links to the preferred URL particularly given that a 301 redirect doesn't pass the full "juice". The flow of authority passes through a link...
