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What is a Dofollow Link?

Hubspot

The easier it is for potential customers to find your site in search engine results, the more traffic (and sales) you’ll generate. Now, brands need to focus on more tightly-controlled metrics — such as Google’s PageRank — to boost their online appeal and push their site listing closer to the first page, first result pinnacle.

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Show me your footer, I show you mine

Kevin Indig

Adding internal links to your footer won’t double organic traffic, let’s be clear. For example, in 2016, Google registered the patent for User-Sensitive PageRank , which factors user behavior and trust into link weights. How much organic traffic did it get us? Both are… not exactly true.

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

FunnelEnvy

For example, Google’s PageRank algorithm incorporated authority, relevance, and keywords. Source: The PHA Group ChatGPT presents the first serious threat to Google’s dominance in many years. The company is already responding to marketers about what generative AI means for content, SEO, and website traffic optimization.

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

Biznology

For example, I wrote the following in 2010: PageRank is designed to ensure that the most relevant, authoritative sites are listed at the top of search results. The problem with the earlier SEO theory is it presents SEO as a shortcut to traffic. Audience, Relevance, and Search: Targeting Web Audiences With Relevant Content , p.

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5 Must-Watch Google Webmaster Videos for the B2B Marketer

KoMarketing Associates

What percentage of PageRank is lost with a 301 redirect? This video debunks the notion that using a 301 redirect will eliminate the majority of PageRank to a webpage – Matt Cutts explains that only around 10-15% of link juice is lost.

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Top Educational Resources for Content & SEO Team Alignment

Conductor

To ensure your content isn’t missing out on traffic and visibility—or an opportunity to build trust with your audience—we created a list of go-to educational SEO resources for content marketers. Top Educational SEO Resources for Content Marketers. A Content Marketer’s Guide to SEO.

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How We Increased Organic Traffic by Over 50% Using Technical SEO Updates

Hubspot

More importantly, we'll show you what we did to fix them and how these solutions resulted in us growing our organic traffic by more than 50% in just one month. On top of this, all that lovely PageRank will be pushed into the content we want to rank for and give it a huge boost from the influx of new links pointing correctly to it.

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