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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. SEOs should look at the keyword relevancy of the linking site’s page and overall web theme to predict the positive impact that it will have on the site’s rankings.

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Do Social Signals Drive SEO?

Convince & Convert

People also wonder if +1s or Likes have a positive ranking impact as well. All the social media sites NoFollow such links, which acts as an instruction to the search engines to not pass PageRank through those links. The key to using social media to drive SEO is to build it to be your very own PR channel to promote your great content.

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SEO Isn’t Mystical

SugarCRM

PageRank (PR): Google assigns every website a value between 0 and 10 (with 10 being the best), this value is known as your PageRank (though it often appears as PR). Unlike PageRank, your Domain Authority score is not determined based on one of Google’s own algorithms. For example, think about keywords.

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The One-Hour Guide to SEO: Link Building - Whiteboard Friday

Moz

Then those pages that had a lot of PageRank, because many people linked to them or many powerful people linked to them, would then pass more weight on when they linked. Then those pages that had a lot of PageRank, because many people linked to them or many powerful people linked to them, would then pass more weight on when they linked.

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How (and Why) to Map Your Company’s Digital Landscape

Webbiquity

This will give you a rough benchmark for your own social media activity (if you already have an active program) and will help you identify any positive outliers—competitors who are far more successful than average in social media—to take a closer look at. Collecting this information is Phase I. Find relevant groups on Facebook and LinkedIn.

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Best Business Blogging Tips and Guides of 2010 (So Far), Part 1

Webbiquity

Higher search position? SEO’s Magic Bullet by PR 20/20. Danny Brown explains why your blog belongs at the center of your social media efforts (just as it’s positioned in the web presence optimization model ) and how to use it to keep all of your social media marketing efforts aligned. Want more comments?

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

seo.co

PageRank is a number assigned to pages by Google that essentially tells us how important they are within the entire index. We’re all familiar with this concept because of browser toolbars that assign web pages a PR value, generally ranging from 0 to 10+ (for sites like Wikipedia). Linking Out.