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Technical SEO 101: 8 Methods for Improving Technical SEO

seo.co

To view the complexity (or simplicity) of your site’s structure, run your domain name through an online Visual Site Mapper. Go to Google and type in: site:yoursite.com (replacing yoursite.com with your website domain) and you should generate a bunch of search results from your domain. Duplicate content. Thin content.

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

seo.co

Duplicate content. + Black hat SEO tactics might get you to the top of the SERPs for a short period of time, but those results won’t last. Black hat tactics waste time and money while putting your entire site at risk of being de-indexed and/or blacklisted entirely. You don’t want to get de-indexed or blacklisted by Google !

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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 analyzed 50,000+ SERPs in the retail banking sector so I could make sense of the massive shifts in rankings and search behaviors during the lockdown period. Who are banks actually competing against in the SERPs? Is it primarily other banks?

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The Featured Snippet Is Now Result #1: What This Means for SEO

Conductor

On January 22nd, 2020, Google rolled out a change to featured snippets (FS), the information block that appears at the top of a search results page (SERP). The decay rate for CTR on a SERP was almost like a law of physics five years ago. SERPs will now only have nine text listings. is this affecting also Knowledge Panels?

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2023 Complete Guide to International SEO

Brightedge

Some of these signals include: Country-specific domains, pages, and localized URL structures. For example, if you're targeting the French market, look at how competitors are using hreflang tags and country-specific domains. Domain strategy (pros and cons). Crafting a strong domain strategy is vital for international SEO.

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6 Tips to Evolve Your Content Strategy in 2020

Valasys

Tack & Optimize your Brand SERPs Queries: Branding is one of the most important motivations behind content marketing. Brand SERPs are equivalent to your online business cards that need to be tracked evaluated & optimized consistently for people, investors, clients, journalists, partners, readers as well as subscribers.

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Optimizing your site information architecture (IA) for Panda

Biznology

In these cases, our only option is to help Google crawl and index our content so that the most important content takes its rightful place in Google’s index, and hopefully Google’s search engine results pages (SERPs). Sitemaps, de-indexing and redirecting. How to build an IA using keyword research.