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‘SEO Is Not a Unicorn’: Crucial SEO Tips for Content Marketers

Contently

In fact, nearly 50% of shoppers today begin their research with a search engine — so ranking on the first page of search engine results pages (SERPs) can offer serious opportunities to reach your ideal customers. Outbound Links If you’re writing about a topic, you can add links to pages that aren’t part of your domain.

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

Hubspot

By looking at the Archive.org view of Nerwallet's pages over time, we can see that Tim stuck to his plan, producing up to 500 pieces of content per month between 2011-2012, and then ramping up his volume and peaking at as many as a few thousand new pieces of content per month in 2014 and 2015.

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Stop Linking to Our Website or We'll Call Our Lawyers

Hubspot

That's a pretty good link, because it has relevant anchor text and the HubSpot domain has some authority in the SERPs -- we create lots of content and our domain isn't brand spankin' new. That's the whole precedent of the Panda updates from 2011! it was that the link allegedly caused penalties in the SERPs.

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Healthcare Schema Markup and What It Means to Your SEO Efforts

EMagine B2B Blog

Schema.org is a collaborative community and initiative that was originally launched in 2011 by Bing, Google, and Yahoo. That is a lot of content to crawl, digest, index, and rank for the search engine results pages (aka SERPs). Medical Scholarly Article – A scholarly article in the medical domain. Breadcrumbs.

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Maximizing SEO with Schema Markup: Strategies and Benefits

Single Grain

Schema markup , also known as structured data, is a form of microdata that you can add to your website’s HTML to improve the way search engines read and represent your page in the SERPs. Using schema can also positively impact user experience and brand perception, and boost your competitive standing in the crowded SERPs.

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Best Cool SEO Tools of 2011

Webbiquity

2 Free Tools to Find and Analyze SERP Dominators (for Competitor Research) by Search Engine Journal. SEO Analysis and Reporting Tools. 8 Cool Free SEO Website Tools by Abnormal Marketing.

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The Ultimate Timeline of Google Search Algorithm Updates [2019]

Hubspot

If your content doesn’t keep up with these Google algorithm updates, you risk losing valuable space on the search engine result page (SERP) … as well as potential visitors, leads, and customers. These include factors like keyword usage, domain history, site usability, and more. Release date : February 23, 2011. Google Panda. ??

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