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Links and Brand as Ranking Factors: 2021 Correlation Study
Note that I’ve chosen to call this a correlation study, not a ranking factor study!
People often complain you don’t see many of these anymore, and to be honest there’s good reason for that – the methodologies of the large scale studies of old were fairly sus. But, I still think there are interesting stories to be told.
The Death of Domain Diversity Has Been Greatly Exaggerated
Domain diversity is a tricky topic, and ill-defined. But in this post I looked into one popular definition (unique domains per SERP), and found some surprising results.
The State of the Web & Core Web Vitals – Three Part Series
In this 3-part series, I looked at the State of Google’s Page Experience updates, and their accompanying Core Web Vitals metrics.
Part 1: Are We There Yet?
Part 2: Flimsy Metrics
Part 3: Performance as a Ranking Factor
When & how to disavow backlinks in 2021
Written for an experiment in Dr Pete’s 2021 Mozcon session.
SEO Forecasting in Google Sheets
A free forecasting template, all calculated natively within Sheets. In a genuinely unrelated incident, I ended up starting work at Moz two weeks after this was published.
Organic traffic down YoY? It’s not what you think…
Brief exploration of the impact of ITP 2.1 on channel reporting in Google Analytics. Some client sites I looked at were overlooking huge gains in organic search performance over the last few years.
“Impressions” is an Undervalued SEO KPI
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Continue reading “What is a Ranking Factor?”Reading Between the Lines – Three Deeper Takeaways from John Mueller at BrightonSEO
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