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Saturday, April 26, 2014

What Is The Mistake Content Marketers Are Making With Nofollow?

By John Musa


Marketers are slowly saying 'rest in peace' to content marketing. The algorithm changes that Google has implemented now require that any paid link must have a nofollow tag. Value has dwindled in the promotions that brands have grown accustomed to.



What value does a sponsored link provide if the PageBoost rank is irrelevant? It is common knowledge that brands only use online promotions to increase their rankings in the search engines. When marketers focus all of their time and energy on SEO efforts, they miss out on the bigger issue at hand. The new type of SEO is not only about search engine results and traffic generation, revenue and engaging the brand is also very important.

Something else which the no follow links help out is they tend to help avoid spammers from taking over a website. Since the no follow links are not going to help get websites ranked, the spammers tend to avoid posting to these websites. So the search engines will also hold the sites in higher regard because of this aspect as well.

Content Matters: In the end, content will win over any other method that is employed to engage and woo the target market. Any individual that is clicking on links will want to sift through quality content instead of reading bland, repetitive material that does not serve any purpose.

The first algorithm update by Google was announced in 2012, and it was called Penguin. The goal of Penguin was to make the black hat websites rank lower in the search engine results. This meant that if Google believed that a website owner was trying to increase their PageRank artificially, the site was penalized. The trends for content marketing will continue to fluctuate. However, the foundation will always remain the same. Make sure that the content you produce is strong, and the audience connection is genuine. When these two factors are in place, link generation will become less of an issue.




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