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Position Zero Is Dead; Long Live Position Zero

Moz

Posted by Dr-Pete In 2014, Google introduced the featured snippet, a promoted organic ranking that we affectionately (some days were more affectionate than others) referred to as "position zero" or "ranking #0." You can see that not only is the featured snippet URL missing from the #1 position, but it doesn't appear on page one at all.

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Troubleshooting your B2B marketing data problems

Biznology

Problems range from duplicates, to key-entry errors, to missing data elements, and beyond. There are two ways to de-anonymize the website visit. Then, consider sending an outbound email, perhaps with a follow-up phone call, positioned as a “contact verification” message. First, add a registration invitation to your site.

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Why Isn’t My Website Ranking? 9 Reasons You’re NOT Ranking on Google

seo.co

If you’ve already indexed your site, perhaps you accidently de-indexed it by mistake? The right content plus authoritative backlinks pointing to this content is what generates positive search rankings for your website. Thus if you want your pages to rank well, you should deliver a positive user experience to your visitors.

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What is Negative SEO?

SmartBug Media

For ethical businesses like yours, knowing how to identify the negative SEO players in the market and responding quickly is paramount to maintaining your competitive positioning. De-indexing The Site: Changing your robots.txt file from the server to remove you from search. What is Negative SEO?

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

Conductor

If a web page listing is elevated into the featured snippet position, we no longer repeat the listing in the search results. You can then cross-reference this with CTR data from Google Search Console to find out whether this update had a positive or negative impact on traffic. is this affecting also Knowledge Panels?

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How to Survive the Next Google Algorithm Update

seo.co

Regardless of the Google updates, make it a habit to check your traffic and your position in your relevant keywords. Meanwhile, the Search Console will help you spot anomalies in the average position of your keywords. De-indexing bugs and other glitches. Keyword duplication and cannibalization. Erroneous robot.txt rules.

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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. Mariano de Simone, Solutions Architect. Our developers also reimplemented our stack.