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Why Content is the #1 Ranking Factor and How to Maximize It

Marketing Insider Group

Domain authority is a factor Moz developed (and now widely used) that judges how likely a page is to rank in search engine results, ranging from one to 100 with 100 being the highest authority possible. Even the highest authority sites like Wikipedia and YouTube only make it into the high 90s. Consistently Proving Your Authority.

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Domain Authority: The Ranking Factor Every SEO Should Know About

Hubspot

But even though you can’t optimize for all of Google’s ranking factors, you can still optimize for one of the search engine’s most important ranking factors -- domain authority. From Google’s perspective, domain authority is like your website’s reputation as a thought leader. What is domain authority?

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Are you policing your domain from spammers?

Biznology

Image via Wikipedia. But if you don't know whether your Web site is safe, and you don't know why anyone would want to break in to plant search spam, you need to read my latest post on Search Engine Guide, " Are you policing your domain from spammers? Do you know whether your Web site has been attacked by search spammers?

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How to Choose Keywords That Rank #1 on Google

ClearVoice

While Google may favor established websites like Wikipedia in their search engine results, there are still plenty of ways for your website to rank for a popular keyword. While Google may favor established websites like Wikipedia in their search engine results, there are still plenty of ways for your website to rank for a popular keyword.

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3 insights from intelligent content conference

Biznology

It’s easy enough to run a text extraction program against a large repository of generic content, such as DBPedia —the database of content in Wikipedia. Domain-specific training : Text extraction or other natural language processing (NLP) applications are the easiest parts of the AI process. The harder part is machine learning.

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How To Prioritize Your List of SEO Keyword Research

KoMarketing Associates

Domain and web page / web address. A Wikipedia entry (research-oriented). In one example, KoMarketing refined a set of keyword targets based on the fact that competition websites for a particular keyword set all had domain authority scores at least 15 points higher than our client’s website.

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What is a keyword ontology?

Biznology

a structured database of the information in Wikipedia. To get the accuracy we need (80 percent or better), we ran the data through a machine learning process that included people with strong domain knowledge in each of our units. The standard training set for Watson NLU is DBPedia ? This was too generic for our needs.

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