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Hello,

I think many of us have re-plan their SEO strategy since the latest updates from Google and we all saw that coming anyway. We already know that link building using Directories, Article sites, Link exchange, profiles, footer/side links, paid links, press releases and other have been devalued or not working at all.

For low budget websites and websites that cannot afford fresh/valued updated content or other link baiting techniques there arent much left. I my self found that Social Media and Blogging (Guest posts) are they only techniques left for websites that cannot manage to get natural links. Also i have realized that On-page optimization is getting more attention again.

We all have great ideas of acquiring links but what we do when time and budget is limited?

Google promotes natural link building but how you supposed to get natural links from a new low reputation website?

I kinda of like the new approach since it will make SEO work a lot of harder and eliminate the easy path success. It will also focus the SEO job more on On-page and on great content. But this is getting a lot of harder for new websites with lower budgets and lower time to consume on SEO.

I deeply know the answer of my question but i would like your opinion also and of course if anyone would like to share some ideas or know-how to discuss is welcome.

Dear Dan,

Thank you so much for spending time on our issue and on the advice. Im looking forward to read your article.

Unfortunetly our blog for technical purposes is not in Wordpress but in Joomla, so i will look for a similar solution there. The desperate solution i guess is to disallow tag urls in robots.txt. But i would try avoid that. On the other hand, since i also use categories to index the content then i assume this will not generate any issue of hiding content.

Hello i believe a lot of us use tags in our blogs as a way to categorize content and make it easy searchable but this usually (at lease in my case) cause duplicate content creation.

For example, if one article has 2 tags like "SEO" & "Marketing", then this article will be visible and listed in 2 urls inside the blog like this

domain.com/blog/seo and

domain.com/blog/marketing

In case of a blog with 300+ posts and dozens of different tags this is creating a huge issue.

My question is 1. Is this really bad? 2. If yes how to fix it without removing tags?

Hi,

I have a sub-page on my website with a lot of spam links pointing on it. I was wondering if Google will ignore that spam links on my site if i go and hide this page using the robots.txt

Does that will get me out of Google's randar on that page or its useless?