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An Introduction to Black Hat SEO

Hubspot

It’s a more ethical approach that abides by the terms and guidelines set out by search engines. White hat SEO is a more ethical way of doing SEO by creating quality content and a good user experience. The Google Panda update in 2011 resolved this issue. Many of the links were found on websites of no relevance to J.C.

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18 (of the) Best SEO Link Building Guides of 2011

Webbiquity

But competitors aren’t the only group whose backlinks hold possibilities…it’s always worth looking at the backlinks of any website, or single page, that is relevant to your topic. Reporting that “The first quarter of 2011 provided some of the most dramatic news in recent search engine marketing memory.

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A Brief History of Search & SEO

Hubspot

It was in that same paper that Page and Brin first mentioned PageRank, the technology that Google uses to help rank search results based on quality, and not keywords alone. That’s partially because PageRank was based on the number of inbound links to a given page -- the more of those, the higher the ranking. 2009: SEO shakeups.

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Top 5 Mistakes to Avoid on Your Company Blog

Online Marketing Institute

To embrace them to their fullest: Don’t be afraid to link out: “Many business blogs get so carried away with minimizing PageRank leakage that they end up stifling their blog’s narrative potential,&# says Rohin Guha, a community manager at online marketing firm Blue Phoenix Media.