Moz
JANUARY 26, 2021
The queries were evenly split across the sectors, and then used to pull results from Google for the top 100 domains. This led to the statistically significant sample size of 85,308 domains. While a lot has changed in 20 years, high-authority links are still a driving force in how Google values and surfaces content.
Moz
DECEMBER 8, 2020
These studies consistently show that links matter as a ranking factor, but they also show that Google is dialing up their emphasis on the quality/authority of those links. In putting together this study, I also consulted with two experts in statistics: Paul Berger of Bentley University, and Per Enge, formerly of Stanford University.
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Webbiquity
JANUARY 22, 2014
Those reasons existed way before Google and they’ll continue into the future. For example, this post on fascinating social media facts and statistics was a great fit for Jeff Bullas’ blog, because it meshes well both topically and stylistically with the kinds of posts Jeff often writes. In short, guest blogging is not dead.
QuanticMind
FEBRUARY 21, 2019
Consider these statistics: Users spend on average 69% of their media time on smartphones 57% of users say they won’t recommend a business with a poorly-designed mobile site. According to Think with Google , the average time it takes for a page to fully load on mobile is 15.3 It also offers suggestions on how to improve your page speed.
Hubspot
JANUARY 24, 2014
On January 20, Google''s Matt Cutts blogged about " The decay and fall of guest blogging for SEO." A good piece of content also uses reference points and resources to make a case, such as statistics to support your points. Personally, I think Google needs to get away from using links as a quality measure -- period. Duh, right?!
seo.co
DECEMBER 15, 2020
Most backlinks pass authority, causing Google to evaluate your site as being more trustworthy. By default, Google bots crawl the web on a constant basis, following links and using them to determine how PageRank is passed. As you might suspect, a nofollow link prevents Google from following the link as usual. Source: Moz.
Optinmonster
MARCH 4, 2024
Not to be confused with PageRank, an algorithm used by Google Search to rank web pages in their search engine results. Named after Larry Page, one of the founders of Google, PageRank was one of the first algorithms used by the search engine to determine the importance of a webpage.
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