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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).

SEO 50
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40 Essential SEO Terms Marketers Should Know [Glossary]

Hubspot

Having links to your site in social bookmarking sites is a sign to crawlers that your website content is interesting to people. Canonical URL - The canonical URL is the best address on which a user can find a piece of information. Inbound Link - A link from one site into another. Image credit: sfkids.org.

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Best of 2008 - SEO Tools, Part 1

WebMarketCentral

How about tools for checking search engine rank, grading the SEO efforts on a website, developing an optimized keyword list, and link building? Counting links the easy way by Searchlight Brian R. Looking for an easy-to-use backlink checking tool (or two) for SEO?

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Google Sitelinks: How to Acquire Google Sitelinks [9 Steps]

seo.co

The categorization of a website includes detailing the more nuanced parts of your website through specialized long tail keywords and other search engine tactics. SEO Friendly URL Strings. Make sure your URL strings are SEO friendly. How to find the right URL. Under Search Appearance, click Sitelinks.

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8 Ways to Use External Links to Improve Your SEO

Single Grain

External links are the bane of every honest webmaster who's trying to make a living online. Undeservedly hated and commonly despised, external links have long lived in the shadow of their internal brethren. 8 Ways to Use Outbound Links for SEO Starting Right Now! First, nofollow links also pass PageRank.

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Best of 2009: SEO Tips, Part 1

Webbiquity

She emphasizes that SEO is a long-term project, that getting on page one of Google isn’t always realistic (at least in the short term), and that ultimately, traffic and conversions are what matters—not just rankings. Focusing on longer-tail terms can provide respectable traffic and conversions without huge costs.

SEO 100
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Domain Authority: How to Increase Your Ranking Score from Scratch

Single Grain

I’ve run into the same scenario more times than I can count: I start working for a client with a brand new site, we develop an incredible content strategy, and then they ask how long it will take to rank on the first page of Google for high-volume, high-competition terms. Google notices this.