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 ...
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 ...
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, posted a video answer this morning strongly recommending that those who place widgets on their sites, or those who distribute widgets, should place a nofollow ...