If you’ve done any link building in your career, internal or external, you’re probably familiar with nofollow and dofollow links. If not, let’s start with some history and why it’s important to know the difference. Google’s PageRank Algorithm One of Google’s original core algorithms was their PageRank algorithm. The simplified explanation of how it worked […]
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This is a recurring topic within the SEO community and one that often results in heated debates. Some say that EEAT (Experience, Expertise, Authority, Trust) is a ranking factor, and others point to Tweets like the one below to show that EEAT is not a ranking factor. When EAT, now EEAT, became a thing, people
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I was introduced to this video via Tim Ferris’ always awesome newsletter called 5 Bullet Friday. I’m actually not familiar with Kurt Vonnegut, but supposedly he’s an amazing writer. And the tips in this video make me believe that he was too. You don’t need to be a fictional writer to benefit from these tips.
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This is something I wrote a while ago and send to my clients whenever they ask about bounce rates. I thought you might find useful too. What Is Bounce Rate? The bounce rate is a percentage of bounces that occur on pages of your site. A bounce occurs when someone visits your site and leaves
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I came across a forum post on DMOZ quite some time ago with a new business owner asking if SEO is necessary anymore. Why this person was asking for this type of advice from DMOZ, I have no idea, but one of the forum moderators chimed in stating that SEO was not necessary. He said
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If you’re a regular reader here, you may have noticed that a few months ago the domain has changed from SEOHats.com to alexjuel.com. I did this because I felt like SEOHats just didn’t make any sense. It was one of those spur of the moment purchases, I quickly put an SEO blog up and wrote
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If you’re having problems installing WPMU on a GoDaddy Shared server, don’t worry, so is everyone else, as I’m sure you’ve found out through your own research. If you’re installing WordPress MU on the main site of your shared server, follow the WPMU guide over here. That should work for you. Now if you are
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If you’ve ever wanted to do a little competitive analysis, you’ve probably had the misfortune of having to view the page source of many pages on a particular website. Searching meta tags isn’t the best way to find the right terms to target for your own website, but it’s a good indicator of what other
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Google has been making so many great updates to their services, it’s hard to keep up, but of course, they’ve done it again. The service of interest this time is Google Maps. Google has now added some new functionality to their already awesome app, Google Maps. If you do a search, you may find the
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It has been debated that private domain registration may affect your ability to rank in the search engines, due to the fact that you may be a spammer and might be trying to hide something. Many people won’t do it because they think that if you are a legitimate business, you don’t have anything that
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