What is a NoFollow Link? Introduced in 2005 as a means to reduce the amount of spamdexing and improve the quality of search results, the NoFollow attribute was made available to give webmasters better control over their linking. An example of a NoFollow link would be:...
Backlinks: Let's Start With the Basics So, what are backlinks and does link building help your SEO? A backlink is a URL anchor on another website (other than your own domain) which links to a page on your site. These kinds of backlinks are sometimes also called...
What benefit is there in knowing how to check backlinks from your competitors? As the great Chinese military strategist, Sun Tzu, said; “Know yourself, know your enemy, and you shall win a hundred battles without loss”. In this instance, we are talking about the war...
Since Google introduced the Penguin update to its algorithm in 2012, practices such as black hat SEO link building have, thankfully, been in decline. Widespread manipulation of a website’s ranking involving the practice of buying links, spam comments, link farming and...
High quality links from top ranking and authoritative sites are a good way to build great links without breaching any Webmaster Guidelines. One of the best ways to do this is via content marking and an effectively designed blogger outreach programme. What is a Blogger...
Let’s be clear about this, building links is not as simple as firing a silver bullet. There is no one, single link builder tool on the market that will be a cure-all to help you reach the holy grail of the number one in Google's search results. What exists are plenty...
The terms White Hat, Black Hat and Grey Hat are often used to explain certain SEO tactics, but what do they actually mean? White Hat SEO Tactics White Hat SEO tacticians maintain a code of ethics that strictly adheres to the guidelines set by the leading search engine...
Links have been, and remain, one of the most important way to rank highly in search results. However, all links are not created equal, so we take a look at the best link building strategies in 2017 and how these have changed in recent years. Along with great content,...
It's been a while since we last mentioned some of our recent projects, so here are four projects that we’ve been working on during the past few months: Redesign & rebuild for Justice Upheld in WordPress Following on from our successful project with Acorns...
Opace would like to wish all of our customers a Happy New Year and many thanks for your business in 2015! Our last post provided 25 essential SEO and online marketing tools to consider for your business in 2016. In this article the focus is on our top four web design...
