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8 Tips to Increase Your Organic Page Ranking in 2018

Webbiquity

Google has released a flurry of algorithm updates in the first half of 2018, which has made it difficult for SEO professionals to work out exactly which tactics are working to help sites rank at the top of organic search results. Your URLs have a certain amount of PageRank associated with them. Guest post by Nathan Elly.

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Topical SEO: 7 Advanced Concepts of Link Relevance & Google Rankings

Moz

Google — and other search engines — use these votes to rank web pages in search results. This is the popularity part of Google’s algorithm, described in the original PageRank patent. But Google doesn’t stop at using links for popularity. Most marketers understand that links to websites count as “votes” on the web.

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Disavow Backlinks: A Complete Guide to Disavowing Backlinks in Google

seo.co

A good backlink has the power to send your site referral traffic, improve your brand visibility and reputation, and even help you rank higher in Google search results. Fortunately, Google has a tool that can help you – the Disavow Links tool. Google has been penalizing and deindexing PBNs since 2014. What Are Backlinks?

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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. SEOs should look at the keyword relevancy of the linking site’s page and overall web theme to predict the positive impact that it will have on the site’s rankings.

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The Ultimate Guide to Google Search Console in 2018

Hubspot

What is Google Search Console? GSC (formerly Google Webmaster Tools) is a free platform for anyone with a website to monitor how Google views their site and optimize its organic presence. This guide covers: Adding your website to Google Search Console. How to add your website to Google Search Console.

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How to Spot a Link Scheme (and Get Away Fast)

seo.co

However, link building is more complex than that, because Google has a strict policy against the use of link schemes —deliberate attempts to manipulate your rankings using low-quality, misleading, or otherwise unhelpful links. They’re also bad for Google because they make it harder to determine trustworthiness on an accurate basis.

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13 SEO Tricks, Treats, and Frights of 2017

KoMarketing Associates

Luckily, John Mueller confirmed via Twitter that it’s just a scare tactic and Google is equipped to handle. Google released the real-time Penguin 4.0 Gary Illyes confirmed last year that 30x redirect do not lose PageRank. The migration typically comes with known traffic issues while Google figures out you have moved.

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