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You’re doing SEO wrong: it’s all about authority

Biznology

Google doesn’t rank anything based solely on how well the semantics of the piece relate to the query. Your content can be indexed by Google for the keywords it contains. For example, I wrote the following in 2010: PageRank is designed to ensure that the most relevant, authoritative sites are listed at the top of search results.

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How to Build Traffic Generating Links

Sharpspring

In the past, link building started as a way to improve organic search rankings, and the secondary benefit was helping readers and actually generating traffic that way. Google of course wanted to change that because readers are (and will always be) the most important thing to Google. Build Traffic Generating Links.

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SEO: Are Nofollow Links Still Valuable?

Hubspot

Is it still valuable to get them when you can, such as from social media sites or Wikipedia? Under what circumstances do you pursue links from Wikipedia? If a link is from a strong site and will pass traffic then I think you should go and get it. If you can, you can be sure it'll drive good volume of high converting traffic.

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Link Velocity: How to Use Link Velocity to Your Advantage in SEO

seo.co

Google doesn’t think so either. Link velocity is one of the hundreds of factors included in Google’s ranking algorithm. If you can naturally scale your link building , the faster the links appear, the better it is for companies looking to maximize traffic and visibility. But, what is it? How is it calculated?

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High Points on the Social Media Landscape

WebMarketCentral

Site Alexa Rank (March 2009) Compete Traffic (February 2009) Compete 1-Year Traffic Change Google Pagerank Facebook 5 73,787,766 +159.0% Site Alexa Rank (March 2009) Compete Traffic (February 2009) Compete 1-Year Traffic Change Google Pagerank Facebook 5 73,787,766 +159.0%

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Google and the Parable of the Turkey

WebMarketCentral

The stock market can be brutal when a company fails to meet earning expectations, such as it was last week when Google's stock price fell by 10% despite a 35% increase in earnings. Like the farmer's hungry children, investors are demanding that Google squeeze more out of its turkeys. Err, advertisers. But first, the paranoid fantasy.

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The Coming Consolidation in Social Networking

WebMarketCentral

Wikipedia lists more than 100 social networking sites , and Social Media Trader recently compiled an even more exhaustive list of 115 social news and bookmark sites rated by PageRank, number of inbound links and dollar value of each site. The leaders will garner high amounts of traffic appealing to a wide market.