Although Google uses many different ranking signals, links from other websites are still the most important signal in Google’s ranking algorithm. The better the links that point to your website, the higher your rankings....
Google’s John Mueller said in a short video on YouTube that nofollow links do not pass PageRank. That means that they do not have an impact on the Google rankings of your web pages....
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that links that have been removed from a disavow file won’t be disavowed anymore. That means that they will contribute to your rankings (if Google’s hasn’t marked these...
Google stopped supporting the link search operator a long time ago and you cannot check the links of other websites anymore on Google. Fortunately, there’s an easy way to check the links of other...
If you use an image to link to another website, you should use an alt attribute in the img tag. Google will use the alt attribute as a replacement for the regular anchor text....
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...
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...
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’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...
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...
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...
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...
