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Search Engine Watch July 14, 2009 Eric Enge	Should You Still Use Nofollow? Recent changes in the processing of the nofollow attribute have caused consternation and concern among many publishers. How should you adapt your on-page SEO strategy?
Search Engine Watch June 3, 2009 Kevin Newcomb	Google Changes Course on Nofollow Google used to advise SEOs that using the nofollow attribute on internal links could help save PageRank for more important pages. Now Matt Cutts has said that's no longer the case.
Search Engine Watch November 4, 2010 John Lynch	Deconstructing Link Value Factors Links are the primary driver of domain authority and the key to ranking quality content. An outline of the factors that affect the value of a link.
Search Engine Watch August 10, 2010 Kristi Hines	7 Things to Watch Out for When Link Building What you should lookout for or check in advance before trying to get a link on a particular page or website. These seven things will save you time, effort, and money.
Search Engine Watch August 12, 2010 Peter van der Graaf	Optimizing Your Existing Links Contacting your link partners can improve your link profile and rankings. Here are some helpful link building strategies, plus some pitfalls you'll want avoid.
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Search Engine Watch January 9, 2011 Eric Enge	6 Ways to Sculpt Your Site's Link Equity Want to see a significant impact on rankings and traffic? Here are a few ways you can use link equity to help pages rank for particular search queries.
Search Engine Watch February 2, 2009 Ron Jones	Link Building 101, Part 1 The concept of getting backlinks to a page internally is sometimes overshadowed by trying to acquire backlinks from external pages. Why not use the same concept and apply it to your internal linking structure and reap the rewards?
Search Engine Watch December 1, 2009 Eric Enge	Four New Signals in Search Search engines are trying to improve search quality by looking at signals such as load time, click data, Web references, and social media.
Search Engine Watch February 21, 2011 Josh McCoy	Big Brands and Bad Linking: How to Avoid Google Penalties The recent hype involving JCPenney's linking scheme penalty may have many wondering if their SEO firm is playing by the rules. Learn how you can avoid punishment from Google.
Search Engine Watch July 13, 2010 Eric Enge	The Death of Natural Linking Social media will become a big ranking factor. The next question for SEOs to answer: how do you balance your investment in link building with your investment in social media?
Search Engine Watch August 28, 2008 Sage Lewis	Get Links Now: Make a Difference, Make Connections Want to solve the link building riddle? Stop thinking about money and start thinking about something bigger. Getting outside of your own little world can expand your horizons, as well as your link portfolio.
Search Engine Watch January 8, 2009 Justilien Gaspard	Don't Overlook These Link Building Opportunities With each passing year, link development becomes increasingly difficult. Yet we sometimes tend to overlook good link opportunities that are right under our noses.
Search Engine Watch July 31, 2008 Sage Lewis	Link Building: Understand Where You Are To Know Where You're Going In link building, if you don't know where you're going, you'll probably end up someplace else.
Search Engine Watch March 8, 2011 Kristi Hines	Google Panda Update: Say Goodbye to Low-Quality Link Building What does the recent news of Google penalties and recent algorithm updates mean for your link building strategies? Advice on how you can determine valuable backlink opportunities.
Search Engine Watch March 3, 2009 Carrie Hill	SMB Link Building Without a Dime Link building doesn't have to be expensive. The first step in finding good links actually started a while ago, when you got to work writing great content that others will want to link to. Next comes scoping out your top-ranking competitors and copying what they're doing right.
Search Engine Watch March 26, 2009 Sage Lewis	My Thoughts on Promo Outcomes Asking people to give feedback about your product or service is great on many levels. It builds relationships and provides incredibly valuable information.
Search Engine Watch July 30, 2008 Eric Enge	Google vs. Yahoo on Paid Links Google created a firestorm in the industry with its Paid Links directive. So where does Yahoo stand in the Paid Links debate?
Search Engine Watch April 22, 2010 John Lynch	Analyzing the 9 Most Common Link Building Strategies A detailed breakdown of all link major link building tactics, an analysis of costs and benefits, and the risks of incurring a penalty from a search engine.
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Search Engine Watch April 21, 2009 Mark Jackson	Link Building? How About Link Optimization? Without a doubt, one of the toughest things to do is to build link popularity for your Web site.
Search Engine Watch December 7, 2003 Danny Sullivan	What Happened To My Site On Google? The outcry from webmasters about Google's recent ranking algorithm change has been unprecedented. This article takes a Q&A-style approach to examine many of the issues and questions that have arisen from the change.
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Search Engine Watch November 23, 2010 Jennifer Van Iderstyne	The Redeeming Qualities of Links with a Bad Reputation Backlink rejects, such as nofollows, blog comments, and reciprocal links, have earned their bad reputations by being mostly garbage. But that doesn't make them entirely beyond salvation.
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Search Engine Watch April 15, 2011 Rob Chant	Introduction to Google PageRank: Myths & Facts Clearing up the confusion about what Google's PageRank algorithm is, how it works, how important it is, and how we can use data based on it.
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Search Engine Watch November 11, 2003 Elizabeth Osmeloski	The Art of Advanced Link Building Advanced link building strategies are critical for achieving high rankings in search engines, according to two noted experts and representatives from Google and Teoma.
Search Engine Watch February 9, 2011 Simon Heseltine	Is Syndication Killing Your Rankings? An 8 Point SEO Inspection Syndicating stories can get more people reading your content, but it can also result in other sites ranking higher in the SERPs for your content. Follow these steps to make sure you aren't giving search engines mixed signals.
Search Engine Watch March 27, 2011 Peter van der Graaf	Old Black Hat SEO Tricks Still Work This article is all about unethical SEO. Hopefully you don't have any practical use for it. Search Engine Watch assumes no responsibility when you end up being banned from Google!
Search Engine Watch February 15, 2010 John Greer	Mastering Google Webmaster Central From site verification and crawl errors to newer tools and features, Google Webmaster Central is critical to the success of search engine optimization campaigns and keeping ahead of the competition.
Search Engine Watch July 30, 2009 Sage Lewis	Re-Thinking Link Building Commentary Readers respond to Sage's last column, where he urged them to change the way they think about link building.
Technology Research News July 27, 2005	Internet Structure Search engines find content via spiders that go through the pages on a Web site by following the links among pages. Here is an overview of how search engines handle queries on the Internet.
Search Engine Watch February 6, 2001 Danny Sullivan	Bush's Dubious Victory At Google For the past three months, if you did a search on Google for a particularly insulting phrase -- think dumb Oedipus -- the top result was to the official George W. Bush campaign store. How on earth did this happen?
Search Engine Watch July 27, 2010 Eric Enge	12 Ways Your SEO Mileage May Vary If you've spent time analyzing search results for a variety of queries, you've likely seen results you can't easily explain. Here's why this happens.
Search Engine Watch December 30, 2008 Mark Jackson	The Paid Links Debate Rages On Should an ethical SEO recommend paid links to their clients?
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Search Engine Watch February 27, 2011 Mark Jackson	The Difference Between Black Hat SEO and Bad SEO The safest way to build up trust/links for your website is to create good, unique, resourceful/helpful content, promote via social channels, and try to win links the "white hat" way.
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Search Engine Watch April 28, 2011 Jeremy Bencken	50+ Tools to Automate Your Link Building These backlink analysis and link prospecting tools can help link builders shift their workload to computers as much as humanly possible.