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On Tuesday, September 10th, 2019, Google announced that the currently 14-year-old “nofollow” attribute would be set to receive two significant new siblings: the “sponsored” attribute and the “UGC” attribute (UGC stands for “user-generated content”).So, why improve something if it is not broken? Why two new attributes where before one was seemingly working perfectly well? Let’s

Modified Transcript We all know that building links is the key to our SEO success, but with so many people out there offering link services, we need to be able to know what is a good link and what is a bad link. A lot of people used to go by the old page rank toolbar

Modified Transcript Hello everyone and welcome to a very special edition of the Weekly Wisdom. My name is Ross Tavendale, and I am the managing director of an SEO Company called Type A Media. Now today we are going to go a little bit lo-fi as you can see because our videographer is currently on

Struggling to get more organic traffic from Google? One of the key factors that affects traffic is the authority of your website. The higher the authority the easier it will be to get traffic to your website. Even though Google ranks pages not websites, it is still easier to rank pages for relevant keywords with a high

Internal link building can be a goldmine of SEO opportunities completely under your control. Using Site Audit, we analyzed 150,000 random websites (175 million pages and 15 billion unique links in total) to discover the frequency of internal link issues. Our study shows that a lot of websites do not live up to their potential because of

“Guest blogging is dead!” How many times have you heard variations of this statement on marketing blogs and forums? Despite evidence to the contrary, there are still a number of pervasive myths and beliefs about guest blogging, especially when it is used as a link building strategy. I have published over 1,400 articles for myself

Many of us are aware that internal links are the secret weapon of many SEOs and that they can help to supercharge organic rankings and visibility. However, we rarely see recommendations to optimize outbound links.Optimizing outbound links is one of the link building tactics the industry is split on; some believe they are an essential consideration

In this guide, we're going to teach you how to find backlinks that point to any website so that you can use these insights to power your own link building strategy.Whether you're looking to find fresh opportunities to earn links that your competitors have but that you don't, are looking to understand gaps in their link

The internet is built on links. Without them, we would have an unorganized mess of disconnected pages that would be difficult to find and navigate. The original BackRub concept of organizing the hierarchy of pages through a citation system was brilliant. But flawed. Since then, it’s been an ongoing process of trying to perfect that system

Link Bait Can Transform Your Approach to Link BuildingAre you fed up with pouring hours of time into creating content only for it not to earn links? Maybe you are looking for a tactic that can help you to build quality backlinks at scale? Link building isn’t easy. In fact, there has never been this much competition from