This may be the result of selling links that pass PageRank or participating in link schemes. These may be the result of buying links that pass PageRank or participating in link schemes. Pure spam" is actually a type of spam definition Google gives...
Beckman went on to say, just as Google has PageRank, which is based off of about 200 different ranking factors, Facebook has EdgeRank, which is an algorithm used by Facebook to determine what is displayed in a user's News Feed based on three main...
PageRank sculpting. Tired of Penguin 2.0 related posts yet? Every major Google algorithm update is followed by weeks and weeks of posts addressing the specifics of the particular change. Who got hit the worst?
It's similar to PageRank in the amount of misconceptions that are beginning to swirl around the buzzword. Everyone loves to speculate on Author Rank and its effect on the SERPs long term. To add to the hype, people are completely misunderstanding...
The issue became much better known in February, after a UK flower site, Interflora, embarked on a huge advertorial campaign with links that passed PageRank. Search engine wise you should make sure that if links are paid, that is, if money changed...
In addition, proper pagination is a scalable way to flow more (or a larger percentage) of PageRank to your archived content. Also, a single link means each subsequent archived index page (and the posts linked from it) is getting a smaller percent...
Link farms and spam blogs aren't going to help you, regardless of their PageRank or domain authority. There's a lot of panic and turmoil right now in the world of link building, but there doesn't have to be – you just have to learn how to be a...
If you have bought so-called “clean” links that pass PageRank, you might want to take a closer look to see if those links are still actually clean and that you haven’t been penalized for it. Google's Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts reports that...
Cutts did clarify there is nothing wrong with advertorials, simply that they don't want them to be abused for PageRank and linking reasons. More importantly, they should not flow PageRank. The latest Google Webmaster video features Distinguished...
If you are locked into the world of PageRank and rich anchor text, chances are that you would view publishing multiple articles with the same site as a waste of time. Classical PageRank thinking would lead one to believe that repeat posts at the...
If your penalty is in regards to an on-site issue, such as selling links that pass PageRank, then you need to remove or nofollow those links. If your website has received a manual penalty notice from Google, then your first step is to repair the...
Most sites have no Toolbar PageRank, are not indexed in Google and if they are, they don't rank for the brand/URL or any snippets from the homepage. We all know that. However, in the rush to get those rankings (that lead to converting traffic of...
Google assigns weight or authority to links using its own PageRank currency, but like any currency it is limited and that means that we all have to work hard to earn it from sites that have, over time, built up enough to go around.
This notion is at the very core of the original PageRank thesis. First and foremost, I don't work for Google. This article represents my opinions, but my company has worked on helping large numbers of sites get Google penalties removed.
Press websites refuse to link out, even to accredited sources and webmasters nofollow links in case they "leak PageRank" or link to a "bad neighborhood". This will be the first time that this many Meetup groups of marketing professionals, brand...
Ever since Google introduced PageRank in 1998, we've all been taught to look at link metrics, whether it's PageRank itself, SEOmoz's Domain Authority, Majestic's CitationFlow, etc. A lot has changed in the search engine optimization (SEO) industry...
In addition, you don’t want to inhibit the flow of PageRank through your site. I use my programming skills on a regular basis in SEO, and especially when performing SEO audits. Various helpful SEO tools can be incredibly helpful in assisting your...
Author Rank is more variable than PageRank when it comes to recognizing topic diversification. After all, unlike PageRank, it's difficult to increase Author Rank, but extremely easy to decrease it. It's no longer a matter of if Author Rank will be...
I'm happy to see him ask that we not use Toolbar PageRank as a reliable metric, only as a potential indicator of quality that needs to be examined in conjunction with other metrics. PageRank Next we get to PageRank, which is such a misunderstood...
A former member of Matt Cutts team said that “relevance is the new PageRank”, which makes sense. Internal links are a great way to manage relevancy signals and PageRank flow throughout a site, but linking to additional internal sources of quality...
