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

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As marketers, all of this stuff matters. Where and how your pages rank in Google can make or break your organic search traffic, so it’s important to understand how the algorithm works and how to ethically optimize for it. 4) PageRank was named after Google co-founder Larry Page. PageRank itself has quite a history.

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Post-Hummingbird Search: An (Almost) A-Z Glossary of Winning at SEO

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Authority: Google’s PageRank is gone forever! Backlinks: Backlinks are another word for inbound links which, when ethically gained, are still helpful for good SEO. So for better SEO, you should be incorporating social sharing and social media marketing into your inbound marketing.

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A Brief History of Search & SEO

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It was in that same paper that Page and Brin first mentioned PageRank, the technology that Google uses to help rank search results based on quality, and not keywords alone. That’s partially because PageRank was based on the number of inbound links to a given page -- the more of those, the higher the ranking. Source: Google.

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How to Build Inbound Links the White Hat Way

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According to Google’s Webmaster Tools Quality Guidelines , “Any links intended to manipulate PageRank or a site’s ranking in Google search results may be considered part of a link scheme and a violation of Google’s Webmaster Guidelines. Black hat strategies include: 1) Link Schemes. Who is their audience? Is it a reputable source?