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26 Google Webmaster Tools Videos Addressing Common B2B Link Building Questions

KoMarketing Associates

Does PageRank Flow Through Image Links? Created: May 29, 2013. Popularity versus PageRank (or reputation) are separate but related discussions that can collectively impact search results but also may not have direct influence. Created: November 25, 2013. Does PageRank Flow Through Image Links? Is There a Limit?

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Do Social Signals Drive SEO?

Convince & Convert

All the social media sites NoFollow such links, which acts as an instruction to the search engines to not pass PageRank through those links. There are three basic problems with this theory: Google has repeatedly denied that they are using social signals for SEO ranking purposes. Does driving links by proper social media promotion really work?

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Algorithm Updates: Common Questions & What You Should Know

KoMarketing Associates

Google PageRank & Algorithm Updates – Search Engine Roundtable. Hummingbird was launched in September 2013 and while it was an update, it was actually a rewrite of the existing algorithm (see here for more ). To see what/when updates have occurred, check out the following resources: Google Algorithm Change History – Moz.

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An Introduction to Black Hat SEO

Hubspot

They state on their website that “any links intended to manipulate PageRank or a site's ranking in Google search results may be considered part of a link scheme and a violation of Google’s Webmaster Guidelines.” Google’s Matt Cutts commented in the thread that he had confirmed multiple times that paid links that pass PageRank.

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

Hubspot

1) Google’s overall algorithm has had one name since 2013: Hummingbird. It was formally announced in September 2013 and created to make search results more “precise and fast” like the bird itself, according to Search Engine Land [SEL]. 4) PageRank was named after Google co-founder Larry Page. PageRank itself has quite a history.

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Fintech: Top 100 Influencers and Brands

Onalytica B2B

Money is a subject which affects each and every one of us, and as a result FinTech has generated a massive amount of attention – with mentions of FinTech on social media quadrupling between 2013 and 2014, and expected to double again for 2015. PageRank (Normalised). PageRank (Normalised). DOWNLOAD NOW! Twitter Handle.

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Post-Hummingbird Search: An (Almost) A-Z Glossary of Winning at SEO

Hubspot

For a detailed review of what Google changed this past year, we recommend Google’s 2013 Algorithm Updates: A Look Back. But subject matter expert Jim Yu summarizes 2013’s changes as focused on “better organizing results and adapting to spoken language.” Authority: Google’s PageRank is gone forever!

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