Tag Archives: authority

Occasionally, Google hits the keyboard and churns out a new post that explains what goes on behind the scenes. At times, these posts are meant to serve as general introductions to a given topic. In other instances, Google uses its blog to update the industry as to its latest advancements. …

Welcome to Part 2 of my series on relevance versus authority in link building. In this series, I’m sharing expert opinions from around the SEO industry. The question I asked these experts was: “All other metrics being equal, would you rather have a high-authority link with lower relevance or a highly …

Google’s fight against problematic content has drawn renewed attention to a common question: how does Google know what’s authoritative? The simple answer is that it has no single “authority” metric. Rather, Google looks at a variety of undisclosed metrics which may even vary from query to query. The original authority …

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: How Google assesses the ‘authority’ of web pagesMay 3, 2017 by Danny Sullivan Google has no single authority metric but rather uses a bucket of signals …

Backlinks have ruled the SEO industry for over a decade now. Although the tactics have changed, the backlink still has the biggest impact on Google rankings. MOZ’s 2015 study of the top factors that have the biggest influence on the Google algorithm revealed what most already knew. With a scoring …