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SEO Isn’t Mystical

SugarCRM

PageRank (PR): Google assigns every website a value between 0 and 10 (with 10 being the best), this value is known as your PageRank (though it often appears as PR). Domain Authority: A score between 0 and 100 (with 100 being the best) that indicates how well your website is likely to rank in Google’s search results.

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The Four Rhinos of Bad SEO Tactics: What Has to Go for Good

ClearVoice

Blame Google. Complicated site architecture. Slow site/page speed. One of two things will increasingly happen: people will immediately abandon any site that interrupts them, or the search engines will actively penalize opt-in pop-ups or other technology that ‘takes over’ control of the experience from the reader.

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8 Ways to Use External Links to Improve Your SEO

Single Grain

Undeservedly hated and commonly despised, external links have long lived in the shadow of their internal brethren. Most bloggers feel they must add those links and that it's a sacrifice they have to make in order to appease the oh-so-cruel Google God. Linking out externally helps show Google that you’re different and better.

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Best of 2009: SEO Tips, Part 1

Webbiquity

How can you get the most of out of Google’s free webmaster tools to improve rankings? sites including “kayaks&# or “kayaking&# will show up on a search for “kayak&# ). For example, one website shows up at #2 on Google for “business services management,&# but at #23 for business service management.

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