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11 SEO Myths That Will Damage Your Rankings in 2022

Brightedge

On the flipside, Google also stated back in 2009 that they don’t recognize Meta Keywords as a ranking signal anymore, although other search engines around the world still might consider them a factor. This is because title tags are one of the primary elements at your disposal for controlling how your pages appear in SERPs.

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Search Marketing Strategy | Treat Search Marketing Like a Macroeconomy

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

An example where Google made an algorithm change that benefited their bottom-line was when they increased the number of paid results on the top of the SERP (search engine results page). Several SEO tactics can generate signals that show an increasing demand for your website; however, let’s highlight link building.

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How a Tiny Finance Startup Dethroned Fortune 500 Giants in Google Search

Hubspot

In 2009, most people would have called Tim Chen, the founder of Nerdwallet , crazy for even trying to take on the titans of the credit card industry. Founded in 2009 as a bootstrapped startup, Nerdwallet has grown at an exponential pace, from 283 users per month in 2009 to 2.2 Picture Credit: SlideShare.

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A Content-Based Guide to Local SEO

ClearVoice

Create any informative, sharable content that links back to your targeted area pages. Link building. Local businesses need to build links, just like any other website does. Using videos impacts your SEO by giving you another spot to appear in the SERPs. Coupons & offers. 82 percent! Local listings.

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In the Aftermath of Penguin 2.0, Branding Is Now a Major Ranking Factor

Hubspot

Just as with the initial release of Google’s Penguin update last year, SEOs all over the web are writing post-mortems about aggressive link building tactics that were once the bread-and-butter of successful search engine optimization, but are now resigned to the dustbin of internet history. Perhaps you’ve heard about it? Yeah, figured.

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Learning SEO? The Beginner's List of Resources to Get Started

Hubspot

They start with searcher intent, move to modern ranking and conversion strategies, review international SEO, share successful link-building plays, and end with the future of SEO. But even if the design looked straight out of 2009, I'd still read it: because the content is also really, really good. But back to the courses.

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Best WordPress SEO Agency: Top 8 Choices for 2022

Single Grain

WordPress has SEO-friendly themes, but it also is very codebase-heavy (the collection of source code used to build the system) and uses a lot of plugins that affect page load times and the security of your site. A penalty from Google means that your website loses all or a significant portion of the organic traffic from the Google SERPs.