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No Follow Links for SEO Ranking; Stars, ratings, and surveys are not ranking factors; Local SEO agencies new agency dashboard

Plus, Matt Cutts gets a lifetime achievement award at the SMX US Search Engine Award ceremony in Seattle at SMX Advanced. Googleoffers clarification on some points mobile. Google doesn’t index images found within DIV tags. Anti-Social Media – the Three ways Facebook spies on you. Plus, a return appearance by acknowledged expert, sought after speaker and article contributor.Roger Montti .

There were 800+ lawsuits last year over website accessibility.  Today on CLBR Bennet talks to Kathy Wahlbin and Heather Antoine to learn how to be compliant.

 Heather Antoine of the Antoine Law Group in Beverly Hills returns along with Kathy Wahlbin, Founder of Interactive Accessibility in Boston to discuss how the ADA applies to websites; the role of advocates for the disabled and the Justice Department in ensuring website accessibility; the Trump administration’s view of accessibility; and what are web accessibility guidelines and how you can make your website compliant?

In this "Word Around the Campfire" episode of PressThis, we discuss the latest news items from around the WordPress community. We'll be covering WordCamp EU/US, plugin SEO squatters, Automattic's clever approach to remote workforces, Microsoft buying Github, GDPR craziness, and a JetPack / WordPress.com website hijack experience you should take to heart. Don't miss the latest news in WordPress on this episode of PressThis. Listen now!

Named Trust Across America 2018 Top Thought Leader in Trust, Anne Bahr Thompson has been inspiring business leaders to use their brands as a motivating force for change for many years. She started to observe and write about how peoples’ connections to companies were turning upside down at the start of the Millennium, before many others identified this shift. With more than 25 years experience as a global brand strategist, Anne is the author of DO GOOD, which explains her pioneering model of Brand Citizenship® – and the cultural dynamics that led to the creation of the model.

A former executive director of strategy and planning and the head of consulting at Interbrand, the world’s leading brand consultancy, Anne is the founder of Onesixtyfourth, a boutique consultancy that helps companies align purpose and profit by integrating cultural shifts and a social conscience into brand development. She spent several years in the banking sector in strategic planning and research and began her career at Grey Advertising. Anne brings the knowledge and understanding that only comes from interacting with a lengthy list of the world’s most prestigious brands including: Aegon, adidas, American Cancer Society, Citibank, Emerson, Hard Rock Cafe, IBM, ING, JPMorganChase, Kingfisher, MerckMedco, Microsoft, Pearson, Pepsi, Prudential, Quaker Oats, Roche, Save the Children, Scandinavian Airlines, STA Travel, Stolichnaya, Symantec, ThomsonReuters, Tri-Star Entertainment, UNICEF, Waitrose/John Lewis Partnership and many others.

Anne’s writings have appeared in Brands and Branding (Economist Books), hbr.com, Brand Quarterly, Journal of Brand Strategy, Bloomberg News, The Guardian, PR News, and many other industry publications, and she has been interviewed about her mega trends on Fox Business. An active community volunteer, she is extremely proud of the work she has done for non-profit and humanitarian aid organizations, both global and local. She holds an MBA from the Darden Graduate School at the University of Virginia and has been an adjunct professor at New York University Stern School of Business’s London campus.

Official AdWords Seminar Leader, Author of Advanced Google AdWords, and Co-Founder of Adalysis, Brad Geddes talks about the Advance of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence including the fears that some PPCs that their work might become obsolete.

Previewing the 2018 Rocks Digital Marketing Conference with featured speakers Roger Montti, Lissa Duty, Michelle Stinson Ross, and Bill Hartzer. Business owners, brand mangers and digital marketers from agencies and enterprise corporations around the United States will converge on Dallas, Texas for this national digital marketing conference later this June.

Today on Affiliate Buzz were joined by Cody Hanson and Rick Hosmer from klundthosmer.com. Klündt Hosmer creates custom web design, graphic design, branding & logo design, marketing, advertising, broadcast, direct mail, trade show graphics, SEO, etc.  They collaborate with clients to discover and express who they really are through authentic, brand-focused communication.

How can marketers best use mobile to accelerate brand building and, ultimately, become love brands that enjoy consumer recognition, appreciation and lasting loyalty? 

Our host Peggy Anne Salz catches up with Beate Rosenthal, speaker, change agent and Global Brand Director Digital & Media at Merck Consumer Health, to discuss the steps and strategies marketers can follow to put show they genuinely care about the concerns and causes that move their customers most. 

Beate draws from her personal journey in digital marketing and recalls the campaigns and efforts that allowed Merck Consumer Health—a division of the German chemical and pharmaceutical company Merck that offers a wide range of over-the-counter products to consumers in more than 40 countries—to build a global and loyal audience for a range of iconic healthcare brands that have also become “love brands.” 

She also provides valuable advice about how even smaller brands can increase their presence, impact and share of voice by committing to causes that drive customer connection and respect.

Today on Purse Strings our host is joined by Cheryl Leitschuh. For the past 31 years, Cheryl has had her own consultancy – her clients call her a “yoda” for small woman owned small businesses and solopreneuers. She describes herself as a Leadership Results Consultant. Providing leadership coaching, leadership training and consulting. Add speaker, podcast host and author to that list.

In this episode of PressThis we interview Daniel Bachhuber. Daniel is a very active contributor to open source and manages to devote most of his time to it. His recent projects focused around the Gutenberg editor are helping gather testing data that will be immensely crucial to developers in preparation for the merge of Gutenberg into WordPress Core. We’ll be talking a bit about the current state of Gutenberg and what to expect in the near future.