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What is a Dofollow Link?

Hubspot

Gone are the wild, wild west days of the World Wide Web where keyword spamming and content stuffing were the norm to drive search engine interest. Now, brands need to focus on more tightly-controlled metrics — such as Google’s PageRank — to boost their online appeal and push their site listing closer to the first page, first result pinnacle.

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Always Be Linking: 9 Places B2B Marketers Might Miss Link Building Opportunities

KoMarketing Associates

With a little more attention, links built in these locations can add significant incremental value to an SEO campaign over time. If the organization’s description can be added to a profile or announcement about a community event or sponsorship being undertaken, look for an opportunity to add a website reference as well.

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An Introduction to Black Hat SEO

Hubspot

They want people to have a great search experience and ensure the results they provide do not include spam. It can lead to being wiped completely from search results or gaining a lower position. You can do keyword research to find out what people are searching for but overusing these keywords in your content is not a good idea.

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Your competitors are doing SEO

Biznology

In the past, the combined authority of each page of each site would be its Google PageRank. Today, without a reliable PageRank, other sites, including Moz, have created their own ranking systems, including MozRank. Well, check out Google’s very own PageSpeed suite of tools (yes, Google wants you to get the lead out!).

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Guest Blogging is NOT Dead (And Matt Cutts Didn’t Say It Is)

Webbiquity

just want to highlight that a bunch of low-quality or spam sites have latched on to ‘guest blogging’ as their link-building strategy, and we see a lot more spammy attempts to do guest blogging. Those reasons existed way before Google and they’ll continue into the future. ” The point is pretty clear. And good riddance.

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8 Interesting Things You Probably Didn't Know About Google's Algorithm

Hubspot

Luckily, Google has developed an algorithm that can read -- at a pace few of us can begin to fathom -- different signals from these pages that indicate how likely they are to answer your search query. Algorithms can also read how recent the content is, how likely it is to be spam, and how it pertains to your location.

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Link Velocity: How to Use Link Velocity to Your Advantage in SEO

seo.co

As search engines and other crawling software become more sophisticated, they can find and index links faster than ever before. You can certainly ramp up what was curated historically, but just not too quickly. Link velocity can also be enhanced through different frameworks, such as social media marketing. Linking Out.