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8 Interesting Things You Probably Didn't Know About Google's Algorithm

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To quote Google itself, “Algorithms are the computer processes and formulas that take your questions and turn them into answers.” Where and how your pages rank in Google can make or break your organic search traffic, so it’s important to understand how the algorithm works and how to ethically optimize for it. Source: Stanford InfoLab.

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A Brief History of Search & SEO

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It was in that same paper that Page and Brin first mentioned PageRank, the technology that Google uses to help rank search results based on quality, and not keywords alone. That’s partially because PageRank was based on the number of inbound links to a given page -- the more of those, the higher the ranking. The Early 2000s.

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