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8 Tips to Increase Your Organic Page Ranking in 2018

Webbiquity

Whether a website has been practicing white hat, grey hat, or even black hat SEO, the entire industry has been affected by the recent updates. Despite the uncertainty, there are still certain practices that stand the test of time with SEO. Your URLs have a certain amount of PageRank associated with them.

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Show me your footer, I show you mine

Kevin Indig

For example, in 2016, Google registered the patent for User-Sensitive PageRank , which factors user behavior and trust into link weights. Footer best practices You can do a lot more with footers than most people believe. At G2, we optimized the footer. How much organic traffic did it get us? Good footers are fat but not obese.

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How to Explain Domain Authority to a Non-SEO

Moz

The name for this stuff originally in Google was called PageRank. Capital P, capital R, one word, PageRank. PageRank was the number, 1 through 10, that we all used to kind of know. We don't really know our PageRank anymore, so you can't really tell. It was visible in this toolbar that we used back in the day.

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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. In the beginning, there was the original PageRank patent , which changed the way search engines worked. How to leverage Authority Pages for SEO: A common practice of link builders today is to seek links from “ Resource Pages.”

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How to Spot a Link Scheme (and Get Away Fast)

seo.co

Link building is a practical necessity if you want to increase your rankings in search engines. Google’s exact policy states: ”Any links intended to manipulate PageRank or a site’s ranking in Google search results may be considered part of a link scheme and a violation of Google’s Webmaster Guidelines. What Is a Link Scheme?

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You’re doing SEO wrong: it’s all about authority

Biznology

For example, I wrote the following in 2010: PageRank is designed to ensure that the most relevant, authoritative sites are listed at the top of search results. The problem with the practice is it does not go far enough in identifying how these PLPs fit into an ecosystem of pages on related topics from all over the web, especially internally.

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Your competitors are doing SEO

Biznology

In the last few months I have been retained by a number of clients to help some very large sites, with thousands of pages, bring their websites back inline with Google’s best practices, namely making sure that each and every page sports a unique page title, a unique description, as well as unique body content.