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

Biznology

Domain authority is not a new concept, it’s been a staple of good SEO for a long time. 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. In the book I said you should be the Wikipedia of your most important topics.

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Link Velocity: How to Use Link Velocity to Your Advantage in SEO

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PageRank is a number assigned to pages by Google that essentially tells us how important they are within the entire index. We’re all familiar with this concept because of browser toolbars that assign web pages a PR value, generally ranging from 0 to 10+ (for sites like Wikipedia). Linking Out.

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How to Build Traffic Generating Links

Sharpspring

Some companies will avoid these types of links because they don’t pass any PageRank, but the truth is that these links are still valuable. Wikipedia is nofollowing all its links but would you pass on a link from Wikipedia just because it is a nofollow link? You can find a cheap domain using this brand name generator.

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How to Use Link Building for Improving SEO

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Your domain authority is dependent on these metrics, but you can’t just go out and build links with abandon. Instead, your best bet is to use guest posts—custom-written content for external publications that contain a relevant, informative link pointing back to your domain. Cite yourself on Wikipedia.

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The Guide to Building Linked Unstructured Citations for Local SEO

Moz

Locally relevant links from domains/pages about Bottger’s locale. Industry-relevant links from domains/pages about the hospitality industry. Step 2: Input domains in Link Intersect We’re going to compare Bottger’s domain to Isleta and Sandia’s domains. Open Link Explorer in a new tab.

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Inbound Marketing the Way God Intended

Biznology

Image via Wikipedia. and entire “informational” sites similar to Wikipedia, distributed globally, on many different servers and under many different domains and sub-domains to emulate its “impossible” counterpart. No, not at all.

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77 Link Building Strategies for SEO in 2022

seo.co

The high-level view of link building is simple enough; place or earn more links pointing back to your domain so your domain-level and page-level authority grow, at which point you’ll naturally rank higher in search engine results pages (SERPs). Domain authority (DA) is a relative measure of the trustworthiness of a given site.