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Show me your footer, I show you mine

Kevin Indig

Search Intelligence used Google Keyword Planner to land massive links for our Bingo client from: The Sun (DR 90) MSN, (DR92) Blackpool Gazette (DR 72) many other UK news publications Read how they did it In early June, I posted a snarky Tweet (Xeet?) that said, “ Show me your footer and I can tell you how good your SEO is.”

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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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The 6 Fundamentals of an SEO Link Building Strategy

Top Rank Marketing

One of the big reasons why Google revolutionized search engines when it launched in 1998 was its PageRank algorithm , which rewarded pages based on how many other websites were linking to them. The more relevant, authoritative sites link to your content, the more trustworthy and useful Google will consider it.

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How to Explain Domain Authority to a Non-SEO

Moz

It's something that Google innovated and is now a really, really important thing across the web and all search. Are they trusted by other websites? Because links basically are trust. The name for this stuff originally in Google was called PageRank. Capital P, capital R, one word, PageRank. It's links.

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26 Google Webmaster Tools Videos Addressing Common B2B Link Building Questions

KoMarketing Associates

In addition to healthy dose of Matt Cutts (Head of Google’s Webspam Team), these videos cover common questions, link building tactics, and the impact of link building schemes and questionable behavior. Why Do Paid Links Violate Google’s Guidelines While Other Ads Don’t? Does PageRank Flow Through Image Links?

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Essential SEO advice directly from Google

Biznology

This news directly from Google is old news for those of us in the SEO game. It seems to me that Google’s tired of our draft work. Google seems to want us to revise our first drafts of the web. Be sure to remember that Google trades in pages. What counts as a high-quality site according to Google?

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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. As long as you focus on delivering value and relevance to your audience, Google is likely to reward your site with positive search rankings in 2017.

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