Google’s SEO Rules and Guidelines for Link Building: Avoid the Penguin

Google’s SEO Rules and Guidelines for Link Building: Avoid the Penguin

Google’s SEO rules are actually pretty simple and follow a single basic principle, that pages should be built for users and not for search engines. The Google Webmaster Guidelines define all of the bad practices that will land you in hot water and include specifics of...

Is Buying Backlinks Safe and Effective?

Is Buying Backlinks Safe and Effective?

Whilst it is established that backlinks are an effective way to positively influence inbound traffic, it is also common knowledge that Google and other search engines, consider paid backlinks an unnatural way of influencing page rankings; in short, buying backlinks...

Top 10 Ways to Get Free Backlinks for Your Website

Top 10 Ways to Get Free Backlinks for Your Website

Organic growth for your website can be slow and finding ways to get free backlinks can help you achieve a faster boost up the page rankings. Here we look at ways that you can achieve some backlinks without paying for them to help you climb the rankings. Claim Links...

How Does the Nofollow Attribute Affect Link Building?

How Does the Nofollow Attribute Affect Link Building?

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:...

Backlink Your Way to SEO Success: An Up-To-Date Link Building Guide

Backlink Your Way to SEO Success: An Up-To-Date Link Building Guide

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...

Top 5 Tools to Check Competitor Backlinks

Top 5 Tools to Check Competitor Backlinks

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...

Can Google Penalise Bad Links and How Does It Impact Your Business?

Can Google Penalise Bad Links and How Does It Impact Your Business?

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...

What Are Backlinks and Do They Still Help SEO?

What Are Backlinks and Do They Still Help SEO?

When it comes to how well you rank in a search engines results, there are many criteria which determine your position; two of the main ones are content and backlinks. Does Link Building Still Work? Google, Bing, Yahoo or DuckDuckGo, every search engine has its own...

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