Google has long had a policy in place warning webmasters against unnatural/low-quality/keyword-rich widget links. In fact, the policy has been in place so long that ...

Google announced early this morning that they are reminding webmasters to not try to use widget links as a link building strategy. Google said "we would like to reiterate our policy on the creation of ...

Don't be surprised if a new wave of unnatural link penalties are sent out via the Google Search Console for widget links. Google issued a stern warning this morning on the Google Webmaster Blog saying ...

Last September, Google said they will penalize sites that do widget links that are not nofollowed. So if you have an embed this widget on your website and that widget carries along a "powered by with ...

Until recently, Google’s definition of a widget link scheme was pretty broad. However, Google has gotten a lot more specific in an update to its Link Schemes page to clarify what types of links in ...

Just five-months ago Google’s head of search spam strongly recommended to nofollow links in widgets because the widget space has been abused with link spam. That may have changed with a small but ...