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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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What a Two-Tiered SERP Means for Content Strategy - Whiteboard Friday

Moz

If you haven't heard the news, the Domain Authority metric discussed in this episode will be updated on March 5th, 2019 to better correlate with Google algorithm changes. Correlations and a hypothesis. This is the two-tiered SERP or what we mean by the two-tiered SERP. Video Transcription. Hi, Whiteboard Friday fans.

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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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Page Authority 2.0 Is Coming This Month: What’s Changing and Why

Moz

Although Page Authority hasn't attracted the same attention as its sibling metric Domain Authority, PA has always correlated with SERPs much better than DA, serving as a strong predictor of ranking. Long gone are the days of just counting backlinks a couple of ways and hoping they correlate well with SERPs.

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A 5-Point Checklist for Writing SEO Content

KoMarketing Associates

Analyze the First Page of SERPs. While these terms might generate less traffic than generic keyword phrases, focusing a piece of content on one might give you a better chance of appearing on the first page of SERPs. Analyze the First Page of SERPs. So, where do you begin? Outline the Content. Write, Optimize, and Promote.

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When You Should and Shouldn’t Use AI for Content

ClearVoice

AI systems examine large amounts of data for patterns or correlations. If Google catches your AI-generated content, they’ll penalize your content, which lowers your SERP rankings. Let’s say you want to generate widget content for Facebook or Twitter. Then these systems make tasks based on those analytics.

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The Theory Behind Ranking Factors — Whiteboard Friday

Moz

Since day one of SEO, marketers have tried to determine what factors Google takes into account when ranking results on the SERPs. I would love to talk in either the comments or on Twitter about exactly what I mean by emergent ranking factors. Posted by rjonesx. So let's begin at the beginning with direct ranking factors.