Focus on topic depth vs. backlinks

A site’s age has an influence on that site’s ranking. A site that has been around for a long time can be seen as more reputable. Plus, it gives Google a background in determining a site’s trustworthiness. Basically, site age lets Google know your site is legit …

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Repeat keywords in your abstract and throughout the article

Make sure you have clean, short, descriptive URLs. Descriptive means keyword-rich but not keyword-stuffed. The online audience has evolved and expectations are high. They are mobile, they are time poor and they live in a world where sharing ideas and content on social networks is just a natural part of …

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This is your opportunity to write something and rank

Nofollow does not mean that the search engine bot will not follow the link at all but, it only means that the search engine bot will not pass value / link juice which normally would have passed for the given link. A 301 redirect means that the move is permanent. If …

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What exactly are Search Engines?

Which articles and posts get the most clicks? Not surprisingly, posts containing countdowns and Top 10 lists are heavily clicked. Not only do they get an enormous wave of traffic when first launched, but they’ll continue to attract traffic for months and even years later. While building backlinks, developing …

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Target Relevancy And Engagement Over Traffic

If you’re hesitant about the effectiveness of SEO, it’s safe to assume you don’t have much technical experience with website development or programming -- and that the prospect of technical SEO intimidates you. Another tip for making long form content appealing is giving people something to read that …

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Closing the Loop

Starting a mobile strategy will take time and work, but the payoff is worth it as more people will continue to search and browse the web on their mobile devices. For your pages to become searchable and indexable by the crawlers / search engine bots, they need some linking love first …

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See how your site looks to Google

SEO is a set of practices and techniques to optimize a website to get it to the top of the search result listing for specific keywords or terms. If everyone’s mobile device had a screen size and the power of a desktop computer, then there would not be much …

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Pay attention to on-page ranking factors

Do the main pages of the site have enough content? Do these pages all make use of header tags? A subtler variation of this is making sure the number of pages on the site with little content is not too high compared to the total number of pages on the …

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Make basic duplicate listing detection

SEO for reputation management is a process for neutralizing negative mentions of your name in the SERPs. In this type of SEO project, you would strive to occupy additional spots in the top 10 results to push the critical listing lower, and hopefully off the first page. Buying backlinks can …

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Always endeavour to gain the trust of Google

Offering your content in multiple languages - Your potential linkers might not all speak English, so get your content translated as soon as possible. When you do this, remember to submit to non-English directories as mentioned above! Hopefully your website is laid out in a way that allows users to easily …

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SEO copywriting is an indispensable skill

Being aware of how SERPs work, having an understanding of user intent, utilizing Google’s AMP, designing a responsive site as well as tracking the analytics of your desktop and mobile sites separately are great ways to begin or better your mobile strategy. An SEO specialist should know how long …

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Expand Your List

Clearly define your objectives in advance so you can truly measure your ROI from any programs you implement. Humans are lazy creatures (That is probably the reason the ready-to-make food sell so much). They don’t have the patience to wait too long for anything. A faster loading website gives …

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Woo your audience

There’s always something written somewhere that you can quote and use. You could also link back to the original article for some sweet SEO gains and to form a relationship with the website or person that is the source of the quote. Search engines want to show the best …

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Invest in a third-party monitoring service

Online search is a murky world for those looking to be found at the top of Google's Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs). Google is a very smart company. The sophistication of the algorithms they write is incredible; bear in mind that there are currently cars driving themselves around Silicon Valley …

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Stop gettin’ all indignant

Focus on producing content on your site that educates and engages your prospective customers so they keep coming back to learn more. The quality of the content is vastly important to SEO. How well-written is it? Is it riddled with spelling and grammatical errors or is it error-free? It does …

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Don't “only” concentrate on Google

Google cares deeply about the indexed age of both your site and its content. A brand new site that's a newcomer to Google is going to have a far harder time ranking on its SERPs than a site that has indexed age. If you are trying to increase the visibility …

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Carve out time for updating and improving older SEO content

Search engines no longer value pages filled with targeted keywords. Take time to write compelling Meta descriptions for all important pages of the site, and for any pages that can be shared socially. There’s no need to spend more time on the optimisation if your content is not appealing …

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The title tag gets a lot of weight in Google

Google is good at crawling all types of URL structures, even if they're quite complex, but spending the time to make your URLs as simple as possible for both users and search engines can help. Be careful not to include links within content that lead directly to the desktop or …

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Understanding the rationale behind responsive design

Stop using keywords in your titles. Why? Because if you don’t know how to optimize a Web page without stuffing your title, then you don’t know how to optimize a Web page. Titles and URLs are options, not requirements, in search engine optimization. Learn to understand and fully …

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Determining the goal for the site

Successive Google algorithm updates have seen the nature of SEO change radically. Where once processes such as keyword stuffing – cramming words that are popular in Google searches into your website’s copy, whether they make sense or not – may have worked, now they can actually work against you. Don’t …

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Use basic math to narrow down your search results

Website owners used to litter their content with tons of keywords in order to rank higher on Google. Now, the search engine penalizes for those practices. You have complete control over anchor text on your own website, and you should use it to your advantage. But you don’t really …

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Build local relationships with content creators

Even the intent of someone searching the web on a mobile device is different from someone using a computer. The content must not only be shorter and more concise but it also must have a different message to cater to the different consumer intent. An internal link connects one page …

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Google owns roughly 70% of the search engine market share

Google crawls most popular pages several times per day, but they don’t want you manipulating them, so they update their index pretty slowly. The better your content is organized and the more quality you provide, the higher Google will put your site on the search results related to your …

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Check for broken links on your website

Another quick, and valuable SEO tactic – see what your competitors are ranking for. Go to one of the tools used to check out our own rankings, but put in a competitor domain. You’ll quickly see what terms they are getting traffic from, and can take the best for yourself …

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Use social sharing buttons as a matter of course

Limit each paragraph to 2-3 sentences at most. It’s even okay to use one-sentence paragraphs if necessary, but use them sparingly or your post will look like a bullet-pointed blog without the bullets. You can initiate a productive relationship with market leaders by leaving intelligent, perceptive comments on their …

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Create an interactive tool for good SEO

Technical search engine optimization consists of making various internal changes to a website to make it more visible in search engines. More visibility means more credibility and better positioning in search engine results pages. Done properly, SEO brings more targeted traffic to your website. Customized information will make sure your …

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Competitor link profile analysis is really beneficial

It’s important to target websites that are related to your niche, so their audience will enjoy and hopefully link to your content. A guest post on a relevant website will also help you attract leads. Search engines are starting to improve how they determine if a website is relevant …

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Generate interest, give information or persuade

when writing for the internet, break up your paragraphs as often as possible. Lots of white space makes reading text on mobile phones a heck of a lot easier (more than half of most websites’ traffic comes from mobile), and clearly formatted articles are used as a Google ranking signal …

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See what keywords you already rank for

When writing a new post, always link to previous relevant articles you have written. That will help your users spend more time on your website by visiting other useful articles. Ranking high in Google can bring you some serious traffic too. When looking at a Google results page (often referred …

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Crawling and Indexing

If you want to use your SEO campaign to truly and accurately speak to your audience and potential buyers, think about what gaps you can fill that competitors don’t. Each year more than 2.8 trillion search queries are made on Google alone. This means that Google answers more …

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Use Headers — Wisely

In an SEO scenario, Google likes to trust sites that have links from high quality, relevant sources. For example, large news websites don’t generally link to an untrusted source, nor do top quality industry blogs or university or .edu websites. To maintain a healthy website, do an overall audit …

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Be personal in a way that big businesses can’t be

Because Google likes sites that link out to good quality content, publishing your own curated content can be a very smart move. Sites built around user interaction and sharing have made it easier to match interested groups of people up with relevant content. If you once had a thousand different …

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Don't do it one-off

When you are trying to get more links you need to think about quality, not all links are created equal and links from low quality sites will have little or no impact on your rankings. Imagine the billions of webpages to be searched when a keyword is typed into the …

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Stick to Your Plan

Make sure you have clean, short, descriptive URLs. Descriptive means keyword-rich but not keyword-stuffed. Google’s Search Console (previously known as Webmaster Tools) and Analytics are both incredibly valuable tools for optimising your site and monitoring its SEO success. To do the broken link-building method, you must find broken links …

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Create Long & Statistics Based Content

If you’ve set yourself up with Google Search Console or Bing Webmaster Tools, you can now get some free keyword ideas. Search Engine Optimization is all about making your website more visible to people who are using search engines to look for your product, brand, or services. Dynamic serving …

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