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Showing posts with label SEO Tips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SEO Tips. Show all posts

Friday, August 1, 2014

Blog 101: Nofollow vs. Follow Links & Why it Matters

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The new SEO has probably got you running around in circles, grabbing your hair. Chasing your tail and wondering what you’re doing. You’re probably thinking… what’s the difference? Why does it matter so much? How do I nofollow? Ugh.. frustrating, right?

Not any more! I’d been reading up on this ever since my PR flanked and dropped completely to a 0. I was completely astonished. I had been blogging for about 5 years and had over 1500 posts. I was stunned. I had went from a 3 to a 0! Holy Crap! I know.

SEO & All That

To be able to explain to you what the follow/nofollow links mean and how they work, I have to explain some SEO stuff to you.

When a site gets a link (link pointing to that web page) (from any website EVER) it gets a tiny PR boost. Each link that is sent to your website equals a higher PR rating. Think of it as a vote. Each site that links to you is a vote. Many votes=King (Well Queen, right?) of the web space (oh, and a higher ranking in Google Search Engines).

Google can see how many links you have and from what websites. Google thinks in the term of “if many people are linking to a site, it has to be a pretty popular website”.  So more links= higher popularity basically. Google only wants to give the best to its “searchers” so higher ranked websites show up first on a google search.

Say for instance you write a blog post on “20 Healthy Hair Tips.” Someone searches “healthy hair tips” and their results show. If you have a higher ranked blog, you’ll show up before a lower ranked blog would.

Follow Links

NOW, onto the actual links and what they mean. A follow link is a link that counts as a “vote” in your Search Engine popularity. If someone writes a blog post and includes a follow link to your “20 Healthy Hair Tips”, you’ll get a “vote.” PR ranking is also upped.

NoFollow Links

A Nofollow link is still a link placed to a website, it doesn’t doesn’t count as a “vote.” This link does not in NO way boost PR ranking.

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*A no follow link is created with the nofollow link HTML tag, which looks like this:

<a href=”http://www.website.com/” rel=”nofollow”>Link Text</a>

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The Nofollow tag basically tells googles web crawlers that you don’t want to place a “vote” for this particular website.

You cannot have too many nofollow links because Google will think you’re being paid for links. Then they will mark your website or blog as spammy and pull your Page Rank. So make sure you watch which websites and links you give your “vote” to.

This nofollow tag keeps spammers from blackballing the smaller guys by buying links from everybody and artificially boosting their PR. Like those pesky people who bombard online community boards and blogs with links trying to sneak in some SEO pull. No more of that.

Now there isn’t any worry that there will be 100s of nonsense posts posted everywhere. It isn’t going to get them anywhere anyway, so why waste their time?

When to USE Nofollow

  • Paid links (it wouldn’t be honest and fair to buy votes, now would it?)
  • Comments
  • Forums

Don’t think that Nofollows are completely worthless though. Even if someone gives you a nofollow link in their blog or post, it will still send traffic to your blog.

Don’t think about SEO when you’re writing. Think about bonding with the people who are reading your blog and building your brand.

SO- just make sure if you write a sponsored post or receive a review item (even if it’s an ebook) you have to make sure to add the nofollow link. Google has crawlers searching websites looking for links out of place (randomly inserted with no content to back the link up) and paid content.

Better to be safe than sorry they say. I know- because I started blogging BEFORE the nofollow tag and have to scour my blog and add in nofollow links to almost all my old posts. I know. Great. lol

Just another thing on the to-list I guess.

 

Til next time,

Jess

 

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

The Blog Workshop- Where Blogging Meets Business #TBW

TBW Community

The Blog Workshop  is a learning community for bloggers and vloggers. Whether you are a beginner blogger/vlogger, looking for tips and tricks to having an awesome blog or you’re an experienced blogger/vlogger looking to take it to the next level.. they have an AMAZING website to show you how to get it done.

Community Signup

They have workshops, annual conferences, and an amazing community that will definitely help you to understand and bridge the gap between YOUR blog and PR reps, brands, and influencers. The Blog Workshop is “Where Blogging Meets Business.”

Even though I’m not a newbie blogger, I’ve been doing this for well over 4 years now- there are still NEW things to learn everyday about blogging, making the best of your blog, and connecting to brands.

The most difficult thing to understand when starting out is how to gain Page Rank. I was confused for almost a year on how to optimize my blog to show up in Search Engines and how to gain link backs. This is where you gain your page rank.

The Blog Workshop has an entire Workshop dedicated on teaching you the ins and outs of Search Engine Optimization. How to get your blog out there and getting it’s name known. It’s all there in their Surviving SEO workshop

This is where the brands are going to be looking. They are going to search you before they say “YES, we would like to work with you”. They are going to see what comes up, how many followers you have, and if you complete high quality work that is worth their time and money.

Knowledge IS power. If you are running around the blogospere not knowing what to do, where to go, or how to get started.. this could definitely help you! They have tons of Workshops that will show you EVERYTHING!

 

 

TBW University Seal

They also have a Blog Workshop University. That way when you do get jobs with those brands and sponsors you want or need, you’ll know exactly how to serve them and make them happy. You want them to come back, right? Well, getting the job done with quality AND preciseness is part of the job! Learn how to do it!

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The Introductory Blogging Diploma is a 1 year program that consists of 4 semesters. Each semester is 3 months long, allows you to gain hands on experience and teaches you the ins and outs of establishing a successful blogging enterprise. Early Enrollment Tuition: $1800

There is a NEW blog workshop on June 26 about SEO!

The Blog Workshop -Surviving SEO - speaker Dan Morris 06/26 8-9pm EDT

Takes place on June 26, 2013 from 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm

About:

The Blog Workshop is being organized by lifestyle blogger Da Vinci, founder of YourLifeAfter25.com.  As a veteran blogger of almost 6 years professionally and 10 years of blogging all together,  Da Vinci has been able to witness the blogging phenomenon grow, evolve and flourish.  With that growth Da Vinci has been able to cultivate a trusted audience of readers, fans, followers and supporters.  Your Life After 25 is receiving on average 300,000+ monthly visitors with over 1,500,000 impressions/page views a month.

Connect with The Blog Workshop online:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheBlogWorkshop

Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheBlogWorkshop

Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/theblogworkshop

Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/theblogworkshop

 

Jessica Renee

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