Bing: how to disavow links
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...
Category: Link Building
Google: don’t overthink link building
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...
Google poll: webmasters want to see the internal nofollow links on their websites
On Twitter, Google’s Gary Illyes asked webmasters wether they want to find the nofollwed internal links on their websites. More than 80% want to see them. Let's say we could add in the Internal...
Google: web page titles and links matter for SEO
Google’s Gary Illyes and John Mueller have confirmed that web page titles and links from other websites are still very important for SEO. If you mean HTML titles, they can help a lot. We've...
Google: it takes time to disavow links – Bing also says you should disavow links
On Twitter, Google’s John Mueller said that Google processes disavow link files immediately. However, the it takes some time to disavow the links. There is no fixed timeline. The files are processed immediately. The...
Google: disallowed URLs can still appear in search
On Twitter, Google’s John Mueller said that pages that are blocked by the robots.txt file of a website can still appear in Google’s search results if other websites link to these pages. These URLs...
Google: we try to pick the most relevant anchor texts from your internal links
In a webmaster hangout on YouTube, Google’s John Mueller said that Google tries to pick the most relevant anchor text if you link with different texts to the same page on your website: “It’s...
Google’s John Mueller: bad links can be obvious
On Twitter, Google’s John Mueller said that bad links should be obvious to experienced SEO’s. You only have to disavow links if it is obvious that the links are harmful: If it's not obvious...
When to use the nofollow tag (and when to avoid it)
Some webmasters are not sure when to use the nofollow tag. Should you use it in links to your own website? Can it help you with ‘crawl prioritization’? When should you avoid the nofollow...
Official: how Google uses links and content to rank web pages
In a webmaster hangout on YouTube, Google’s John Mueller explained how Google uses web page content and links to rank web pages. Both are important if you want to get high rankings on Google....
Google: it’s okay to get links from websites in different languages
On Twitter, Google’s John Mueller confirmed that it is okay to get links from websites that are in a different language: Usually you can't control who links to you – and if it happens...
Google: the nofollow tag is working well (and how to check nofollow links)
On Twitter, Google’s John Mueller said that Google thinks that the nofollow tag is working well: In talking with various folks internally, my feeling is that overall this has been, and still is, working...