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What is a Dofollow Link?

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The easier it is for potential customers to find your site in search engine results, the more traffic (and sales) you’ll generate. As a result, there’s a kind of constant content competition underway as website owners and administrators look for ways to stand out from the crowd and improve search engine optimization (SEO).

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Off-Page SEO: What It Is & Why You Need It [+a Helpful Checklist]

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Imagine this: You've done everything you can to optimize your website. From optimizing your images and conducting keyword research to setting up a site structure and internal linking strategy. While your website is vital to your SEO strategy, there are additional actions to take outside of your website that will help you rank.

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An Introduction to Black Hat SEO

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Black hat SEO is a practice against search engine guidelines, used to get a site ranking higher in search results. These unethical tactics don’t solve for the searcher and often end in a penalty from search engines. Black hat techniques include keyword stuffing, cloaking, and using private link networks. Keyword Stuffing.

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What is a Link Wheel? Do Link Wheels Still Work for SEO in 2021?

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Link wheels can be visualized like a wheel with your main web page in the middle connected to “spokes” that represent backlinks from other websites. However, link wheels aren’t a reliable SEO strategy for one reason: you’ll never have enough time to create multiple high-quality, high-ranking websites that will give you the backlinks you want.

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The Ultimate Guide to Google Search Console in 2018

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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. That includes viewing your referring domains, mobile site performance, rich search results, and highest-traffic queries and pages.

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Is Author Rank Really Relevant?

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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. Specifically, Google is dropping the profile photo and circle count from the search listings where authorship is assigned to a web page. Has Author Rank been abolished?

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Optimized Links in Press Releases & Guest Posts Can Harm Your SEO, Says Google

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Do those search engine optimized press releases you''re sending actually boost your search rankings? While the question of whether anchor text links in press releases ever actually pass search value has always been debatable, a recent update from Google seems to shed some more light on these issues. Well, there you go.

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