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What is a Dofollow Link?

Hubspot

As a result, there’s a kind of constant content competition underway as website owners and administrators look for ways to stand out from the crowd and improve search engine optimization (SEO). Gone are the wild, wild west days of the World Wide Web where keyword spamming and content stuffing were the norm to drive search engine interest.

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Off-Page SEO: What It Is & Why You Need It [+a Helpful Checklist]

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While some of the factors are based on website content and performance, Google also gathers its understanding of your website through sources outside of your domain. Link building, for instance – an effective off-page SEO strategy – is one of the top ranking factors. Link Building. Content Marketing.

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An Introduction to Black Hat SEO

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White hat SEO consists of creating quality content and a better overall user experience for people visiting your site. White hat SEO is a more ethical way of doing SEO by creating quality content and a good user experience. It’s pretty easy to spot and Google will be able to tell that the content sounds unnatural.

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The Ultimate Guide to Google Search Console in 2018

Hubspot

It’s helpful on a macro and micro level -- both when I need to figure out what’s happened to a high-traffic blog post that suddenly dipped, and see how many impressions HubSpot is gaining month over month. I’m a content strategist on HubSpot’s SEO team, which means GSC is particularly useful to me. What is this sorcery?

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What is a Link Wheel? Do Link Wheels Still Work for SEO in 2021?

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Blog networks are an old, ineffective, black hat SEO tactic that is essentially a link farm. A link farm consists of numerous blogs that publish reciprocal links to each other, usually without considering the content. Link wheels, on the other hand, might be part of a blog network, but that blog network is not black hat.

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The Biggest SEO Blunders of All Time

Hubspot

Spoiler alert: The worst that could happen is Google lands a direct hit on your search rankings with a flying roundhouse kick, your PageRank drops to 0, and you eventually get featured in a blog post (like this one) that''s filled with examples of companies that broke the rules and paid the price. I mean, what''s the worst that could happen?

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SEO: Are Nofollow Links Still Valuable?

Hubspot

Gianluca Fiorelli, SEO, ItaliaSEO : When it comes to links, I personally don't think at first if they are going to be followed or not. In fact, even though search engines do not carry PR through the no followed link to your site, they record it and they take notice that your site has been cited in a site. had a link from Wikipedia.

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