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Google Offers Insight Into What Makes A Great Backlink
Hey all, just a quickie today – but something potentially very valuable.
Google has posted a very interesting article on their Webmaster Central blog regarding what makes a good quality backlink.
The usual fare is present about directories not having the weight they once did, not creating spammy content and so on. But one of the main highlights of the post is that Google points to “community involvement” which seems to indicate a nod to social media.
With the impact of social media on SEO being closely scrutinised, I wonder whether this will provide a clear view point on it, or at least go someway to proving that social media may be here for the long term from and SEO perspective?
Here’s the Google post: Quality links to your site
What do you make of it?
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Mark is a director at The Design Loft; a marketing studio delivering design, web solutions, SEO, PPC, print, photography and digital marketing directly to SMEs and as white label products to marketing agencies and design houses, all from a base near Sheffield, England. He has consulted and worked on projects for the NHS, UK Ministry of Defence, Barclays PLC, JCB and many more as an experienced web designer, online marketer, IT trainer and casual geek. On top of that he has an affinity for his iPhone and his Mac and loves designing and building pretty websites. He is also a huge advocate of the .NET CMS mojoPortal and is one of the UK's leading mojoPortal skin / mojoPortal theme designers. He has a dog called Pete and is the frontman and bassist for Green Ball Flyers. He also dislikes coconut. Alot.
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