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SEO For Dummies, 7th Edition
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SEO For Dummies, 7th Edition

by Peter Kent
January 2020
Beginner
512 pages
13h 14m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 18

Using Link Popularity to Boost Your Position

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Understanding how search engines calculate value

Bullet Building website hubs

Bullet Weighing pages with PageRank and TrustRank

Bullet Using keywords in links

Bullet Identifying links that aren't links

Thousands of site owners have experienced the frustration of being unable to get search engines to index their sites. You build a website, you do your best to optimize it for search engines, and then nothing much happens. Little or no traffic turns up at your site, your pages don't rank well in the search engines, and in some cases you can't even find your pages in the search engines. What's going on?

Here's the opposite scenario: You have an existing site, one that’s been around for a while but with few links pointing to it, and finally find a few other sites to link to it. You make no changes to the pages themselves, yet all of a sudden, you notice your pages jump up in the search engines.

There's a lot of confusion about links and their ...

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