Google’s John Mueller explained on Twitter that embedded images from other sites do not count as links to these sites. You also do not have to worry about unnatural links if a shady website...
Dr. Marie Haynes has written a long blog post with the title “Does disavowing links work in 2019? Here are some case studies.” She comes to the conclusion that disavowing links still works: “We...
Last week, Google introduced two new link attributes: ‘ugc’ for user generated content and ‘sponsored’ for paid links. The Link Influencer tool in SEOprofiler now support these link attributes. What is the Link Influencer...
Although nofollow links are ‘hints’ now for Google, you do not have to disavow them: You definitely don't need to disavow nofollow links — not before, not now. Sometimes they're a signal of a...
Google announced in an official blog post that it changes the way it treats nofollow links. Until now, nofollow links were not considered by Google’s ranking algorithm. Google has introduced new link attributes and...
Although Google uses many different ranking signals, links from other websites are still the most important signal in Google’s ranking algorithm. The better the links that point to your website, the higher your rankings....
Google’s John Mueller said in a short video on YouTube that nofollow links do not pass PageRank. That means that they do not have an impact on the Google rankings of your web pages....
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that links that have been removed from a disavow file won’t be disavowed anymore. That means that they will contribute to your rankings (if Google’s hasn’t marked these...
Google stopped supporting the link search operator a long time ago and you cannot check the links of other websites anymore on Google. Fortunately, there’s an easy way to check the links of other...
If you use an image to link to another website, you should use an alt attribute in the img tag. Google will use the alt attribute as a replacement for the regular anchor text....
Bing announced on Twitter that you can use their Disavow Links tool to submit page, directory, or domain URLs that may contain links to your site that seem ‘unnatural’ or appear to be from...
Google’s John Mueller said in a discussion on Reddit that you shouldn’t overthink link building: “We mostly differentiate between the primary content & boilerplate (things like header, sidebar, menu, etc), but for the most...
