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Show me your footer, I show you mine

Kevin Indig

For example, in 2016, Google registered the patent for User-Sensitive PageRank , which factors user behavior and trust into link weights. Many SEOs are scared to raise the number of links on every page, but when keeping PageRank and CheiRank somewhat in balance, it’s no problem. At G2, we optimized the footer.

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Four Predictions About the State of SEO in 2017

Webbiquity

Previously, SEOs had focused more on the authority of sites to improve the amount of pagerank that would help to rank the site for its desired keyword. Matt Cutts posted his thoughts about the decay of guest blogging , but it is still an effective promotional SEO tactic. SEO will become more integrated with PR.

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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. The key to using social media to drive SEO is to build it to be your very own PR channel to promote your great content. The Real Power Comes From the Synergy.

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Top 4 SEO Tips for Small Business Blogs on a Shoestring Budget

Writing on the Web

One of the side-effects of these changes has been the fact that many low-cost SEO tactics have lost their effectiveness and power. b) Download the Google Chrome PR plugin. It will let you see the PageRank of every blog you visit instantly. Content is the most effective SEO tool there can be , if used right.

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The Rules of Link Building - Best of Whiteboard Friday

Moz

Link to those local listings to help Google get that indexed, and it sort of has this boomerang-like effect on your site. So not only is it just good general PR, but it's a great opportunity for you to get a link. I like to think of link building as really good PR anyway. It's like digital PR. So hope that helps.

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The One-Hour Guide to SEO: Link Building - Whiteboard Friday

Moz

Then those pages that had a lot of PageRank, because many people linked to them or many powerful people linked to them, would then pass more weight on when they linked. Then those pages that had a lot of PageRank, because many people linked to them or many powerful people linked to them, would then pass more weight on when they linked.

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

seo.co

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.