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Black Hat SEO: 19 Short-Sighted SEO Tactics that Will Kill Your Rankings

seo.co

Duplicate content. + Black hat tactics waste time and money while putting your entire site at risk of being de-indexed and/or blacklisted entirely. Worst case scenario, your entire domain name could get de-indexed or even blacklisted from Google and other search engines. Irrelevant keywords. + Keyword stuffing. +

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2023 Complete Guide to International SEO

Brightedge

Some of these signals include: Country-specific domains, pages, and localized URL structures. Best practices for international SEO. Below are key best practices to follow for international SEO implementation: Identifying which markets to target. Domain strategy (pros and cons). Local keyword and content optimization.

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10 Steps to Blend STAT Ranking Data with Site Performance Metrics

Moz

Posted by AndrewMiller Too often, we assume that SEO best practices will work in any industry against any competitive set. But most best practices go untested and may not be “best” in every situation. Why validate SEO best practices with data? Site: The domain name for the site you want to track.

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What is Negative SEO?

SmartBug Media

Some practitioners intentionally practice negative SEO to score fast results for their clients, while others inadvertently fall into these tricks because they don’t know any better. De-indexing The Site: Changing your robots.txt file from the server to remove you from search.

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RebelMouse Q3 2021 Platform Performance Updates

RebelMouse

Then, we removed requests that were duplicates or where data could be retrieved through other, more efficient methods. This allowed us to decouple the data-fetching phase from the rendering phase, which was causing duplicate requests. Allow users to save the site domain. Mariano de Simone, Solutions Architect.

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6 Tips to Evolve Your Content Strategy in 2020

Valasys

Read more on Google Algorithmic Update: SEO Best Practices for B2B Brands. Use locale-specific URLs: The URL structure should be framed in a manner that makes it easy for your website to be geotargeted in parts of it or even as a matter of fact for different regions; for example: A country-specific domain such as example.de

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Optimizing your site information architecture (IA) for Panda

Biznology

Sitemaps, de-indexing and redirecting. Normally, Google will pay close attention to site IA when it attempts to rank apparently duplicate content within the same domain. If you have a legacy page that is ranking well for a keyword and competing with a new experience, you can de-index the legacy page.