It happens, much to everyone's chagrin. Today Search Engines take into consideration many additional factors other than just the sheer number of links when evaluating your offsite link profile: A good seo expert should not only have case studies readily on-hand but should be more than happy to show them …

There are ways to do a bulk search on a list of URLs to check if any of the pages contain a link to yours, but if you're checking this on a daily basis, it's probably just as fast to do a quick manual check. If you want to master …

We can all relate to times we really want to find an answer to something specific, yet the top ranking sites are answering a different question. Even though Google doesn't map keywords from queries to pages like it used to, it still uses keyword phrases to help it understand site …

They usually mean one of two things. The click through rate (CTR) of a page is determined by the number of people that click on your result in the SERPs. If your snippet is very appealing to a user, or appears in a higher position, people are more inclined to …

I think it 's safe to assume that relevancy and other factors play some role in how your site is ranked, given the scale and complexity of how rankings are determined. Google has told us for well over 10 years what is important to them and how to rank higher …