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An Introduction to Black Hat SEO

Hubspot

Black hat SEO is a practice against search engine guidelines, used to get a site ranking higher in search results. It’s a more ethical approach that abides by the terms and guidelines set out by search engines. Black hat SEO goes against the guidelines set by search engines and manipulates them to gain higher rankings.

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Don’t Be a Victim of “Dirty Little Secrets of Search”

B2B Marketing Traction

Your search engine optimization (SEO) company, maybe despite claiming that their tactics are above board ( white hat tactics), tricked the system with black hat tactics that go against search engine guidelines. ” “Don’t participate in link schemes designed to increase your site’s ranking or PageRank.

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What Google Thinks about Influencer Marketing

Content Standard

Google has issued new rules on how bloggers should behave when they have a relationship with a brand. The FTC has joined the fray, and brands that don’t play by the rules will get burned. That means Google won’t count the link when it determines PageRank, since the link didn’t come about organically.

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Link Velocity: How to Use Link Velocity to Your Advantage in SEO

seo.co

PageRank is a number assigned to pages by Google that essentially tells us how important they are within the entire index. If you publish too often, your website will have no time to accumulate PageRank, authority, or trust amongst link participants. Google Webmaster Guidelines. Linking Out.

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7 Red Flags to Watch Out For When Auditing Your Link Profile - Whiteboard Friday

Moz

Google still has guidelines that outline all of the link schemes and types of link manipulation. Nofollow to follow, this is another one — please don't use this as a sweeping rule, because I think even Russ Jones has come out and said at a mass scale that's not a good predictor of spamminess. Disavow is still offered. So that's that.

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What is a Link Wheel? Do Link Wheels Still Work for SEO in 2021?

seo.co

No matter how many websites you own, you won’t get penalized for playing by the rules. The webspam team penalized the page on www.google.com/chrome, dropping its Pagerank for two months. If Google penalizes their own content, nobody can circumvent the rules. Set strict rules for anchor text. That’s not allowed.

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The Evolution of AI and SEO: Adapting to New Search Behaviors

Brightedge

As we focus on search, we can see that AI in search has evolved from the introduction of expert systems (think PageRank in 2010), rules engines, data science, neural networks, and much more! Fast forward to the present era of ChatGPT, Microsoft Bing, Google Bard, and all Generative AI applications, and what do we see?