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The One-Hour Guide to SEO: Link Building - Whiteboard Friday

Moz

Posted by randfish The final episode in our six-part One-Hour Guide to SEO series deals with a topic that's a perennial favorite among SEOs: link building. Today, learn why links are important to both SEO and to Google, how Google likely measures the value of links, and a few key ways to begin earning your own.

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How to Explain Domain Authority to a Non-SEO

Moz

The reason is: search ranking factors determined that these were going to be the top search results for that query or that keyword or that search phrase. Those two main factors are, first of all, the page itself, the words, the content, the keywords, the relevance. It's links. Because links basically are trust.

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Topical SEO: 7 Advanced Concepts of Link Relevance & Google Rankings

Moz

This is the popularity part of Google’s algorithm, described in the original PageRank patent. But Google doesn’t stop at using links for popularity. They’ve invented a number of clever ways to use links to determine relevance and authority — i.e. what is this page about and is it a trusted answer for the user’s search query?

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Off-Page SEO: What It Is & Why You Need It [+a Helpful Checklist]

Hubspot

From optimizing your images and conducting keyword research to setting up a site structure and internal linking strategy. Link building, for instance – an effective off-page SEO strategy – is one of the top ranking factors. Link Building. Off-Page SEO Factors for Link Building.

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An Introduction to Black Hat SEO

Hubspot

Black hat SEO is a practice against search engine guidelines, used to get a site ranking higher in search results. Black hat techniques include keyword stuffing, cloaking, and using private link networks. Keyword Stuffing. Adding multiple variations of keywords where they add no value creates a bad experience for users.

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

seo.co

. + 6 black hat link building tactics to avoid. What makes link building tactics “black hat?”. + Link Farms. + Reciprocal link exchanges. + Paid links. + Hidden links. + Irrelevant keywords. + Keyword stuffing. + 6 black hat link building tactics to avoid.

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SEO Isn’t Mystical

SugarCRM

PageRank (PR): Google assigns every website a value between 0 and 10 (with 10 being the best), this value is known as your PageRank (though it often appears as PR). Your PageRank value is based on factors like link popularity and trust that Google uses to determine where your website ranks on its search engine results page (SERP).

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