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The Google anti-trust trial: A deep dive into the details

Martech

20) Former 17-year employee of Google, Eric Lehman , who worked as a software engineer on search quality and ranking told the trial that “pretty much everyone knows we’re using clicks in rankings.” Google is ‘using clicks in rankings’ (Sept. He added: “That’s the debate: ‘Why are you trying to obscure this issue if everyone knows?

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Technical SEO: Everything You Should Know About Sitelinks

Brightedge

Essentially, the search engine had decided that their algorithms had matured enough to know which pages would work best within the sitelinks area and that allowing people to discourage certain links unnecessarily complicated things. What causes sitelinks to appear? The creation of sitelinks is an automatic process on Google’s part.

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Negative SEO: Does It Really Exist?

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

But, do these tactics actually work? One of the most noteworthy details is that the sites these negative SEOs targeted were hardly following whitehat SEO practices (whitehat SEO refers to SEO strategies that focus on a human audience rather than only search engine rules). Scary right? How can you protect your website from them?

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Creating a Transactional Email Campaign? Check Out These 15 Excellent Examples

Hubspot

It's chock-full of highly personalized and useful information, including a map of the surrounding area, directions to the apartment from the airport, house rules, and some general logistics around cancellation and payments. One thing you'll notice many of these examples have in common is an abundance of relevant deep links.

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Enterprise SEO Software: How to Choose the Best SEO Platform for Large Sites

Single Grain

There are several challenges that SEO professionals have to face while they are working to improve the organic presence of a large website or a collection of websites. Imagine checking all the broken links on a large website. Even if your entire team was working on it, think of how time-consuming it would be to perform this task.

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SEO Strategy for Startups: How to Win in 2021

Single Grain

But here’s the problem: Modern search engines and their algorithms have become vastly more sophisticated, and therefore the SEO techniques that used to work many years ago no longer work today. While some of that is true, it’s a gross oversimplification of how modern SEO actually works. 10 Golden Rules for Startup SEO Success.

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Natural vs. Unnatural Links: What’s the Difference? How to Build a Natural Backlink Profile

seo.co

Google’s ability to detect natural links is more advanced than ever, and with some Google employees insisting that link building for SEO should be avoided altogether, it pays to know the real differences between unnatural and natural links and why you should be working to build backlinks naturally.