Does it matter if your website suddenly gets 200 links on a single day? Is the rate of link acquisition a ranking factor or a spam signal? Google’s John Mueller answered these questions in...
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that you only have to use Google’s disavow links tool if you actively built spammy links. He answered the question of a webmaster who asked whether he should...
Google’s John Mueller said in a webmaster hangout on YouTube that some links can become less important over time. The reason for that is that the linking web pages can become less important. “[Links...
Google’s John Mueller said on Reddit that HTML sitemaps aren’t useful for SEO. Websites should be crawlable anyway. If visitors and search engines cannot find all pages of your website through the regular navigational...
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...
