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What Is Domain Authority and Why Is It Important?

Marketing Insider Group

If you’re familiar with SEO, you know that domain authority is key to ranking well on SERPs. Domain authority indicates the likelihood of a website ranking on SERPs , and is calculated by the quality of a website’s backlinks. In fact, research shows that over 70% of SEO experts check their website’s domain rating at least once a month.

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SERP Universal Listing Trends

Brightedge

The SERP landscape is also constantly changing and has evolved dramatically over time. Marketers must be quick to adjust strategies to accommodate both algorithm updates and changes to the SERPs. Because of this, BrightEdge started tracking some of the ways Google is evolving the SERPs. Universal Search methodology.

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Using a New Correlation Model to Predict Future Rankings with Page Authority

Moz

Correlation studies have been a staple of the search engine optimization community for many years. Each time a new study is released, a chorus of naysayers seem to come magically out of the woodwork to remind us of the one thing they remember from high school statistics — that "correlation doesn't mean causation." Posted by rjonesx.

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Top 200 Google Ranking Factors: 2022 Complete List

seo.co

And, while link building has always been the bell of the ball when it comes to ranking, it is NOT the most correlated factor for ranking in Google. No, the most correlated ranking factor is that you have diversity among all the other top correlated factors. Correlation vs causation. Spearman correlations.

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How To Choose the Right Keywords for SEO in 5 Steps

Optinmonster

Example: “What is lead generation?”. So, a quick look at the SERPs can reveal a lot. It helps you prioritize keywords that are more likely to lead to conversions, sign-ups, or whatever your end goal is. Each stage of the buyer’s journey correlates with different search intents. How to conduct a SERP analysis?

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What Can Social Media Do for SEO?

Oktopost

Making sure your social media pages appear in the SERP for branded search queries doesn’t take much work and serves an important function. Experts claim that visitors who stay on your website can still improve its SEO , even if they don’t come from the SERP. ↑ There’s evidence that these things slightly correlate with ranking.

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Long- and Short-Term Plays CMOs to Showcase Marketing Attribution

SmartBug Media

Understanding Correlation, Causation, and Coincidence Correlation, causation, and coincidence can blur marketing attribution. Just because two data points appear to be correlate doesn't mean that what they represent is valuable.