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7 SEO Processes That Get Easier with Increased PageRank/Domain Authority - Whiteboard Friday

Moz

What factors are affected as you improve PageRank or Domain Authority, and how? So the title of today's Whiteboard, "7 SEO Processes That Get Easier with Increased PageRank and Domain Authority." So why did we choose PageRank and Domain Authority? Anybody can suffer the consequences of bad links.

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SEO Isn’t Mystical

SugarCRM

PageRank (PR): Google assigns every website a value between 0 and 10 (with 10 being the best), this value is known as your PageRank (though it often appears as PR). Your PageRank value is based on factors like link popularity and trust that Google uses to determine where your website ranks on its search engine results page (SERP).

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Top Educational Resources for Content & SEO Team Alignment

Conductor

Con ductor Academy : Our free SEO courses are taught by search marketing experts that cover the basics, as well as next-level skills. For anyone just getting started, we recommend our SEO Basics course , where you’ll learn what SEO is, how it works, and how vital of a role it plays in content development— in just 90 minutes.

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Do Social Signals Drive SEO?

Convince & Convert

All the social media sites NoFollow such links, which acts as an instruction to the search engines to not pass PageRank through those links. Of course, all of this is greatly facilitated by publishing great, unique, content. Correlation studies only measure correlation, they don’t measure causation.

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Disavow Backlinks: A Complete Guide to Disavowing Backlinks in Google

seo.co

PageRank, the driving ranking algorithm used by Google, prioritizes ranking sites with high authority. Of course, ranking higher isn’t just a matter of building as many links as possible – otherwise, anyone could rank highly in search engines. Of course, Google also wants webmasters to be in control over how they’re represented online.

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The Correlation Between Authoritative Links and Ranking [SEO Study]

Moz

Of course, the relevance and quality of the content are the most important factors in ranking — they have to be. Google's perspective of what makes better links is likely more nuanced than a simple metric like PageRank (the Google metric that DA and PA are most similar to).

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What’s wrong with search and social media marketing?

Biznology

Owned media , of course, are media channels that businesses controlled. Most casual observers would place paid search in paid media, SEO in earned (link building and PageRank, for instance), and social in either owned — or if you were using such things as Facebook’s Promoted Posts or Twitter’s Promoted Tweets features — paid.