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SEO Terms Glossary

 MEANINGS OF SEO TERMS If you've been reading our beginner's guide to SEO and are perplexed by some of the phrases you've come across, don't worry! We understand that understanding the intricacies of SEO lingo and jargon might feel like learning a new language. To help you understand all of the new jargon we're throwing at you, we've put together a chapter-by-chapter SEO glossary complete with definitions and helpful links. You should save this page for future reference! SEO 101(Chapter 1)  10 blue links: This is the format in which search engines display search results; ten organic results all appear in the same format. Black hat SEO methods are those that violate Google's quality rules. Crawling is the technique by which search engines find your website's pages. De-indexed: A page or set of pages that have been removed from Google's index. Featured snippets: Organic answer boxes that appear at the top of search engine results pages for specific...

Assessing & Monitoring SEO Success

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CHAPTER EIGHT: EVALUATION OF SEO PERFORMANCE They claim that anything can be improved if it can be measured. It's the same with SEO. Professional SEOs monitor a variety of metrics to demonstrate the effectiveness of SEO, including rankings, conversion rates, lost links, and more. It's crucial to your SEO effectiveness, client retention, and perceived value that you measure the effects of your work and continual improvement. When something isn't working, it also enables you to change your priorities. Always begin with the end in mind. Even if it's typical to have several objectives (both macro and micro), deciding on a clear primary end goal is crucial. Knowing a website's goals and/or clients' needs thoroughly is the only method to determine what its main objective should be. Good customer inquiries not only help you focus your efforts strategically, but they also demonstrate your concern for the client. Examples of customer inquiries: Could you briefly describe...

The Complete Guide to Link Building

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 The Complete Guide to Link Building Link building is vital in SEO since it drives organic traffic via search engines, especially in competitive industries. Link building may be extremely efficient at driving more organic traffic when combined with strong technical SEO foundations, outstanding on-page SEO, fantastic content, and a nice user experience. The need for quality, relevance, and authenticity has never been greater. While low-quality, spammy link building strategies can be effective, they should not be part of an organization's long-term organic search success strategy. Link building is arguably more equivalent to great marketing these days, and the firms who grasp this are usually the ones who win in the long run. But that doesn't mean there isn't a technical component to link building or that all tactics must revolve around your product. We'll see that there's still a lot more to it than this, and there's a lot more to learn than ever before. This gui...

LINK BUILDING & ESTABLISHING AUTHORITY

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 CHAPTER SEVEN : LINK BUILDING & ESTABLISHING AUTHORITY You've generated content that people want, that answers their questions, and that search engines can understand, but that doesn't guarantee it'll rank. To outrank the other sites with such characteristics, you must create authority. Earning links from authoritative websites, creating your brand, and cultivating an audience that will assist amplify your content are all ways to accomplish this. Google has stated that links and quality content (both of which we discussed in Chapter 4) are two of the three most essential SEO ranking variables. Sites that are trustworthy prefer to link to other trustworthy sites, while spammy sites tend to link to other spammy ones. But what exactly is a link? How do you acquire them from other websites? Let's start with the fundamentals. What exactly are links? Inbound links are HTML hyperlinks that point from one website to another. They are also known as backlinks or external lin...