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

Moz

Google — and other search engines — use these votes to rank web pages in search results. This is the popularity part of Google’s algorithm, described in the original PageRank patent. But Google doesn’t stop at using links for popularity. Most marketers understand that links to websites count as “votes” on the web.

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Show me your footer, I show you mine

Kevin Indig

Search Intelligence used Google Keyword Planner to land massive links for our Bingo client from: The Sun (DR 90) MSN, (DR92) Blackpool Gazette (DR 72) many other UK news publications Read how they did it In early June, I posted a snarky Tweet (Xeet?) that said, “ Show me your footer and I can tell you how good your SEO is.”

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

Biznology

Google doesn’t rank anything based solely on how well the semantics of the piece relate to the query. Your content can be indexed by Google for the keywords it contains. For example, I wrote the following in 2010: PageRank is designed to ensure that the most relevant, authoritative sites are listed at the top of search results.

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Cloud: Top 100 Influencers & Brands

Onalytica B2B

From documents, music, television series, movie downloads; to emails and photographs, such a variety of data now exists that we want to access from any of our devices at any given time. Personal cloud services such as Dropbox, One Drive, Google Drive or iCloud provide the solution to our centralised and accessible data storage needs.

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

Hubspot

But think about this: Google has really been around for over two decades. I mean, they get us our search results, after all.But how does Google's algorithm work? We thought you might ask that, so we put together some fun facts about Google's algorithm, and how it's shaped the way we search today. Source: pyxle.

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An Introduction to Black Hat SEO

Hubspot

If you are new to the search space, the purpose of search engines like Google is to provide the best results when someone completes a search. Google explains keyword stuffing as: Lists of phone numbers without substantial added value. It’s pretty easy to spot and Google will be able to tell that the content sounds unnatural.

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How Google Search Works, In a Nutshell

Hubspot

Unless you're an SEO expert , it's no surprise if you're mystified by the inner-workings of Google search. How on Earth does Google decide how to rank the pages on your website? Yesterday, Google's head of web spam, Matt Cutts, published a video on the GoogleWebmasterHelp YouTube channel called "How does Google search work?"