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Nice SEO advice here by Daniel Cuttridge today by...
Nice SEO advice here by Daniel Cuttridge today by staying ahead of the Algo update curve.
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Feb 28, 2020
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Nice SEO advice here by @luciolucita32 today by staying ahead of the Algo update curve. I love any solid technique (its been SEO tested) that helps future proof my rankings. Check out what to do about the #NoFollow Update Here: What is everyone using for internal link audits these days? (Currently I am using sitebulb)
https://mailchi.mp/0ad69d11bcdf/the...72393
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Feb 28, 2020
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luciolucita32
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Thanks for the share mate! I totally need to start using those 'chimp shortlinks myself haha
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Feb 28, 2020
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sawyor640
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Hey @
luciolucita32
you bet! You got killer SEO game! Are you using Lighthouse to audit and improve your score, or checking "generic" anchor text with another site audit program? I just want to double check some sites. Your email was timely as I have been diving into content relevance a lot lately!
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Feb 28, 2020
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@
sawyor640
Thanks :) Nah, the lighthouse audit only runs it on a per page basis, it's way easier to run a check inside of WordPress itself with a database plugin e. g. Better Search Replace. Or you can do a quick search in any of the . php files for any template generated links! Might see if I can create something quickly in sheets to check it easier. Edit: General internal link audits I like SiteBulb & Ahrefs :)
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Feb 28, 2020
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sawyor640
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luciolucita32
me too, love sitebulb, I did see Ahrefs now has their "internal backlinks" feature, but I haven't used it yet. Awesome tip with the better search and replace plugin though!
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Feb 28, 2020
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luciolucita32
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sawyor640
The Ahrefs feature is gold for competitor research! Quickly see what internal links they have and how many :P
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Feb 28, 2020
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sawyor640
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luciolucita32
SOP time!
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Feb 28, 2020
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I mostly use Scrutiny, it’s like a poor-man’s Screaming Frog for Mac, but it does the trick! I usually export the CSV into my change tracking spreadsheet, and adjust in the sheet as I make on-site anchor changes.
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Feb 28, 2020
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undertone
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I will have to take a look Ryan, thanks
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Feb 28, 2020
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passable
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Look for “Scrutiny coupon” on Google and they have a page on their own site that cheekily claims “we hid this to see if anyone would find it. Here a coupon! ” I think I paid $50 for a lifetime license or something. It’s a basic crawler but for internal link audits it’s perfect as it lists crawl depth, 301s etc. Biggest drawback is that it doesn’t have visualization like SiteBulb.
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Feb 28, 2020
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luciolucita32
thanks for this! I get this nofollow link question every single day! With permission going to post this in my group. And thanks @
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for sharing it
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Feb 28, 2020
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Totally fine to re-post etc :)
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Feb 28, 2020
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Very interested test. Some interesting implications as well. May have to add it to the docket for testing
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Feb 28, 2020
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Awesome test and results. If adding nofollow attribution to the generic links helped increase the anchor text relevance of the remaining links, what about keeping the links dofollow and changing the anchor text to something more relevant to the content of the page?
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Feb 28, 2020
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sawyor640
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Good Question, I wonder if Inlinks. net helps with this. @
petro
any thoughts on the new NoFollow Update?
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Feb 28, 2020
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petro
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sawyor640
well - we could create a proper test, as our links are dofollow (and javascript) but I suggest the link is more about context than keyword. Topic not anchortext, so changing the anchor will only change things when the meaning changes as well. In terms of the change in the nofollow algo weighting, I welcome it, but don’t know what the impact will be, yet.
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Feb 28, 2020
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more about context than keyword <--- Great Point!
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Feb 28, 2020
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mammalian
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Daniel, so you recommend doing a nofollow those generic anchor texts?
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Feb 28, 2020
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luciolucita32
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As I said in my Newsletter there the only thing I am actively recommending is people to not stop using NoFollow. I think my result I had was because my internal linking strategy doesn't lean towards over-optimized. If you want to try it out you can NoFollow them, remove them or change the anchor text on some of them as @
phenothiazine
mentioned. If you're underoptimized with your anchors it'll help a lot. If you're over-optimized you have to keep in mind that these anchors will be balancing things somewhat. In those cases you'll have a lot of work to do to get things fixed up enough before you can really benefit from the full relevance signals of a well-optimized internal anchor profile.
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Feb 28, 2020
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I got this email too - made me do some reading. Nice work Dan.
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Feb 28, 2020
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luciolucita32
Can you explain a bit more? What did you nofollow, exactly? The "More" links that lead to inner pages, like "Read more" for blog posts? If that's the case, you must have left the the titles linked, or otherwise there would be no internal linking, right?
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Feb 28, 2020
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Yeah 100% I would never remove a link from a title if I was you. If you search your site for the anchors that I added in there then you should be able to find a list to go through
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Feb 29, 2020
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Hello @
luciolucita32
I ran this poll a few months back. A majority on this forum did not use no follow for internal links. What is your view on this?
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Feb 29, 2020
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I’m not saying to not use them on internal links Did you actually read the link?
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Feb 29, 2020
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upend42
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@
luciolucita32
I understood perfectly. I was just wanting to share the thoughts of many others here on not using No follow attributes for internal links. Sometimes when you try to be brief in your comments, it leads to sarcastic emojis.
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Feb 29, 2020
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upend42
I’m not talking about internal links though, I’m talking about anchor text dependent utilisation of the NoFollow attribute. I wouldn’t write about this if I was setting NoFollow on ALL my links would I? I would recommend people learning what that attribute does before setting it on all links. That’d be very silly indeed.
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