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Arguments over the use of “nofollow” tags on internal links keep popping up and it is time to answer these question with authority! 10 SEO experts were asked to share their view of the practice.

See what they have answered about this method of PageRank Sculpting!

P.S. After I read that post, I was scratching my head and asked myself: Being a famous SEO means necessarily that you are an expert?

Buying SEO services by price point alone is definitely in invitation for poor quality services, and even worse, can invite a penalty in Google.

India has probably done more than any other country to position itself as the “SEO spam” capital, with a huge number of companies fighting to offer the cheapest service that delivers the smallest results.

Are you looking for cheap or quality SEO?

Search engines are enhanced by having the most relevant results in their index. A clean site hierarchy and an easily understood navigation structure will benefit both usability and SEO.

From the architectural level, having a clean site hierarchy and an easily understood navigation structure will benefit both usability and SEO.

Check this concept which can help your rank better utilizing better usability and the best proven methods of SEO.

Whether or not you have a brick and mortar store, it is vital to ensure your web site is ranked well in searches for your local area. So don’t neglect localized searches. Some of your best customers could be right around the corner, but if they can’t find your web site in the local listings that they use, they might never come through your door.

Are you ranking well in the searches of your local area?

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California may require websites to provide access to visually impaired users under ruling made in the long running case of the National Federation of the Blind vs Target.

Many webmasters and inexperienced or unethical SEOs abuse the use of this attribute, trying to stuff it with keywords, hoping to achieve a certain keyword density, which is not as relevant for rankings now as it once was.

On the contrary, high keyword density can, on some search engines, trigger spam filters, which may result in a penalty for your site’s ranking. Even without such a penalty, your site’s rankings will not benefit from this tactic.

Do you use your the alt attribute for your images with care?

Google introduced the new X-Robots-Tag directive, which adds Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP) META tag support for non-HTML pages, like PDF, Videos, Spreadsheet files, etc. You can have the same control over such indexed file types.

X-Robots-Tag: unavailable_after: 31 Dec 2007 23:59:59 EST

Also be aware that REP META tags can be useful for implementing noarchive, nosnippet, and now unavailable_after tags for page-level instruction, as opposed to robots.txt, which is controlled at the domain root.

Google introduced a new META tag that allows you to tell them when a page should be removed from the main Google web search results called unavailable_after tag. This one follows a similar syntax to other META tags. For example, to specify that an HTML page should be removed from the search results after 7pm Eastern Standard Time on 19th August 2007, simply add the following tag to the first section of your page:

<META NAME="GOOGLEBOT" CONTENT="unavailable_after: 19-Aug-2007 19:00:00 EST">

That information will be treated as a removal request, which it will take about a day after the removal date passes for your page to disappear from the search results. Currently they only support unavailable_after for Google web search results.

After the removal, your page will stop showing in Google search results but it is not removed from their system.

In this tutorial I describe you how to properly implement search engine friendly redirects using an HTTP 301 status code and Location header.

Not all duplicated content is bad, because proper attribution and links from other sites can add value and drive traffic to your site.

So, how do you avoid having people copy your content? Tell people not to take it and call out people who do. Verify user agents and block unknown IP addresses from crawling your site.

Jordan McCollum at Marketing Pligrim have put together some SMX notes about duplicated content.