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SEO Isn’t Mystical

SugarCRM

SERP: Here’s another simple one for you — SERP is just an acronym for search engine results page. 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).

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Google Sitelinks: How to Acquire Google Sitelinks [9 Steps]

seo.co

Google sitelinks are listed after a main search result, in which it is followed by multiple indented sitelink results. Most webmasters believe that sitelinks are a reputation enhancer while also allowing a webpage to control greater real estate in SERPs. ” Google tells you more about sitelinks within Webmaster Tools.

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40 Essential SEO Terms Marketers Should Know [Glossary]

Hubspot

Jargon alone shouldn't stop you from making your site the powerful marketing tool it can be. ALT Text/Tag or Attribute - A description of an image in your site's HTML. Social bookmarking sites (example: Delicious.com) let users share websites they like with each other. Inbound Link - A link from one site into another.

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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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Domain Authority: How to Increase Your Ranking Score from Scratch

Single Grain

I’ve run into the same scenario more times than I can count: I start working for a client with a brand new site, we develop an incredible content strategy, and then they ask how long it will take to rank on the first page of Google for high-volume, high-competition terms. Updated November 2023.

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A Handy Content Marketing Glossary of Terms

Single Grain

Typically, a major goal behind content marketing is improving your site’s rankings on the search engines, especially Google. Because Google uses a fairly complex algorithm to value and rank content, they regularly make changes to their ranking algorithm and these are referred to as algorithm updates. Buyer’s Journey.