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8 Tips to Increase Your Organic Page Ranking in 2018

Webbiquity

Whether a website has been practicing white hat, grey hat, or even black hat SEO, the entire industry has been affected by the recent updates. Despite the uncertainty, there are still certain practices that stand the test of time with SEO. Your URLs have a certain amount of PageRank associated with them.

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

Biznology

Most people get the theory of SEO: You find the keywords and phrases that compose the search queries of your target audience, and you build content that answers the questions implicit in those queries. They did the keyword research. Your content can be indexed by Google for the keywords it contains. They built the content.

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How to Explain Domain Authority to a Non-SEO

Moz

The reason is: search ranking factors determined that these were going to be the top search results for that query or that keyword or that search phrase. Those two main factors are, first of all, the page itself, the words, the content, the keywords, the relevance. The name for this stuff originally in Google was called PageRank.

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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?) Footer best practices You can do a lot more with footers than most people believe.

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Capitalizing on Google’s Algorithm Adjustments for AI-Generated Content

FunnelEnvy

In the early days of the internet, Google won the search engine wars against companies like AltaVista by developing more sophisticated algorithms rather than solely focusing on keyword matching. For example, Google’s PageRank algorithm incorporated authority, relevance, and keywords. In the AI era, they will do the same.

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Top Educational Resources for Content & SEO Team Alignment

Conductor

If you don’t weave SEO best practices into your content, you’ll eventually see lower search results rankings. Implementing SEO into your content development process will enable expanded keyword research that helps you better articulate your customer’s voice, questions, and needs in your content. Keyword Research.

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Topical SEO: 7 Advanced Concepts of Link Relevance & Google Rankings

Moz

This is the popularity part of Google’s algorithm, described in the original PageRank patent. In the beginning, there was the original PageRank patent , which changed the way search engines worked. How to leverage Authority Pages for SEO: A common practice of link builders today is to seek links from “ Resource Pages.”