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Show me your footer, I show you mine

Kevin Indig

While I always thought boilerplate links have less value than links in the main content, John Mueller recently confirmed that Google doesn’t differentiate much: We don’t really differentiate there. Conclusion Few factors in SEO provide a quick feedback signal: title, content, rich snippets, backlinks, internal links.

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Topical SEO: 7 Advanced Concepts of Link Relevance & Google Rankings

Moz

This is the popularity part of Google’s algorithm, described in the original PageRank patent. In the beginning, there was the original PageRank patent , which changed the way search engines worked. An expert page is a document that links to many other topically relevant pages. Topic-sensitive PageRank.

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You’re doing SEO wrong: it’s all about authority

Biznology

Most people get the theory of SEO: You find the keywords and phrases that compose the search queries of your target audience, and you build content that answers the questions implicit in those queries. They built the content. Your content can be indexed by Google for the keywords it contains. They did the keyword research.

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Cloud: Top 100 Influencers & Brands

Onalytica B2B

We are creating more and more content than ever before on our computers, notebooks, tablets and smart phones. 90% of the world’s content was generated in the last two years alone! PageRank (Normalised). PageRank (Normalised). Download The Full Report. DOWNLOAD NOW! Twitter Handle. simonlporter. SimonPorter. keithbdixon.

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Google Search document leak reveals inner workings of ranking algorithm

Martech

A trove of leaked Google documents has given us an unprecedented look inside Google Search and revealed some of the most important elements Google uses to rank content. Thousands of documents, which appear to come from Google’s internal Content API Warehouse, were released March 13 on Github by an automated bot called yoshi-code-bot.

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An Introduction to Black Hat SEO

Hubspot

White hat SEO consists of creating quality content and a better overall user experience for people visiting your site. White hat SEO is a more ethical way of doing SEO by creating quality content and a good user experience. It’s pretty easy to spot and Google will be able to tell that the content sounds unnatural.

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E-A-T and the Quality Raters' Guidelines - Whiteboard Friday

Moz

These guidelines are a document that Google has provided to this whole army of quality raters. There are apparently 16,000 quality raters, and what they do is they use this document, the Quality Raters' Guidelines, to determine whether websites are high quality or not. Hire experts to fact-check your content.