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Is Author Rank Really Relevant?

Hubspot

By now, you’ve read about the latest Google-induced confusion-fest. This was one of the accounts of the carnage: Google’s John Mueller has announced that Google is making a major change in the search results around authorship. I’m saying I don’t know what the Google algorithm depends on.

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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. Engagement.