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How To Choose the Right Keywords for SEO in 5 Steps

Optinmonster

Here’s how I do it: Launch Semrush’s Keyword Gap tool, enter your domain, and watch as your competitors line up for a showdown. The tool will suggest some rival domains. If your site is just starting, skip adding your domain. Informational Intent: These users are on a fact-finding mission. Example: “OptinMonster login”.

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SERP Universal Listing Trends

Brightedge

The SERP landscape is also constantly changing and has evolved dramatically over time. Marketers must be quick to adjust strategies to accommodate both algorithm updates and changes to the SERPs. Because of this, BrightEdge started tracking some of the ways Google is evolving the SERPs. Universal Search methodology.

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What a Two-Tiered SERP Means for Content Strategy - Whiteboard Friday

Moz

According to a hypothesis by the good folks at Distilled, the answer may lie in perfectly satisfying searcher intent. If you haven't heard the news, the Domain Authority metric discussed in this episode will be updated on March 5th, 2019 to better correlate with Google algorithm changes. Correlations and a hypothesis.

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Top 200 Google Ranking Factors: 2022 Complete List

seo.co

And, while link building has always been the bell of the ball when it comes to ranking, it is NOT the most correlated factor for ranking in Google. No, the most correlated ranking factor is that you have diversity among all the other top correlated factors. Correlation vs causation. Spearman correlations.

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Page Authority 2.0 Is Coming This Month: What’s Changing and Why

Moz

Although Page Authority hasn't attracted the same attention as its sibling metric Domain Authority, PA has always correlated with SERPs much better than DA, serving as a strong predictor of ranking. Long gone are the days of just counting backlinks a couple of ways and hoping they correlate well with SERPs.

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10 Steps to Blend STAT Ranking Data with Site Performance Metrics

Moz

The idea of analyzing thousands of local SERPs sounded like too much fun to pass up. I found some surprising correlations, and just as importantly, built a methodology and data set that can be updated quarterly to show changes over time. Who are banks actually competing against in the SERPs? Is it primarily other banks?

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11 SEO Myths That Will Damage Your Rankings in 2022

Brightedge

Tools like Data Cube and Site Report from BrightEdge allow you to track your rankings over time and correlate changes with new optimization strategies. Sometimes, publishing long-form content is the best way of catering to searcher intent. Generic Top-Level Domains Improve Rankings. Domain Age Is a Ranking Factor.