Once upon a time, link building was a sure way of raising your page rankings on Google. Years into the future, this is still mostly true. However, many people misused this feature and spammed the web with low-quality sites linked to by many low-quality sites. Google has since updated its algorithm and this has reduced…
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Finding the right keywords to use in your content is important if you want to boost your rankings or keep them high. However, you can’t approach the use of keywords the same way as before. For keywords to work for you, you must be able to make use of certain tools and know how to…
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Video Keyword Research On YouTube, most of your views will come from YouTube suggesting your video to viewers and while it helps to optimise your videos to searches, it’s not the most effective technique. People also search for things differently on YouTube compared to Google and some keywords will only be effective on one but…
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1. Make use of Udemy You can use Udemy to find out which topics people are more than just a passive interest in. You can also use Udemy’s course structure to know how to structure your content. 2. Increase time spent on page using ‘buckets brigade’ Applying ‘buckets brigade’ in SEO means using words or…
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It’s not as easy as it once was to get a backlink from a blog. Google’s updated policies have brought the possibility of penalties when links are seen to be used purely for link building purposes and thus many bloggers have a blanket ‘nofollow link’ policy. However, you can still use blog commenting to gain…
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Links from other sites can help your page to rank better on search engines. However, this shouldn’t be your only reason for seeking out backlinks. Backlinks can open up your site or blog to a whole new audience, boosting the traffic to your site significantly. Here are six steps that you can use to build…
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In simple terms, to guest blog means to write a post which is then published on another person’s blog. However, there is a lot more thought that goes into guest blogging than simply posting on blogs for the sake of it. Quite often, when a person is trying to increase traffic to their own blog,…
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Understanding why you want to become a guest blogger is important. There are three main reasons why people usually want to become guest bloggers: · To increase traffic to their sites · To build backlinks to their sites · To turn themselves into authority figures in the industry If you can guest post on the…
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Just because you have a blog doesn’t mean readers are going to come flooding to read what you’ve posted. A significant number of blogs end up stagnating due to lack of traffic and this usually because of how people try to bring traffic to the site. There are several ways that you can bring…
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1. Backlinks are still very important The number of backlinks to a page was found to have the greatest amount of correlation with the ranking of the page. A high diversity in the site linking back was also found to be better. 2. Link authority still matters The ranking of pages was also seen to…
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