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According to a study conducted by Dan Zarrella of Hubspot, there is a definite, positive correlation between the number of social media shares your content has and the amount of backlinks.

The 22 local search experts sitting on our survey panel also believe that a mix of different citations, from a range of industry and niche sites, is preferential.

For United States companies, these four map data aggregators provide a large amount of the map data for Apple, Yelp, Bing, Google+ local, Trip Advisor, and more. Express Update Neustar Localeze My Business Listing Manager Factual

The responses show that nearly 2/3rds of survey takers believe Google has a wide variance of how ranking inputs are weighted depending on the query words used. This makes analysis of the ranking systems vastly more challenging (as a ranking input might be very important for one set of queries, and relatively unimportant for another). Hence, in the ranking input weighting results below, results should be interpreted with knowledge of this potential variance. I.E. SEOs generally believe certain factors outweigh others in importance, but not necessarily in the universality of this ordering.

Including images in your blog posts related to these hunting keywords with images containing camo gear likely gives you improved likelihood of having one of your images included in top ranking image results.

By investigating trends in labels across your keywords, you can gain many interesting insights into the images most likely to rank for your particular niche.

Google sometimes ranks YouTube video thumbnails in image search results

Regarding CDNs & search: there's no SEO downside to using CDNs. Use the same URLs (that's the normal setup) via the CDN, then Search won't need to change indexing. (Googlebot might initially be cautious with crawling, but this ramps up automatically.)

Include your keyword in the title, in the first 300 words, and in the first H1 or H2 (though, it should be noted that it isn’t necessary to hit both — just make sure you have it in one of them). After that, you should be trying to use variations of your keyword.

Site being "tainted" after a manual action is a SEO myth. You request a RR and if successful, you're off the hook.

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In short: Google’s clearly become so confident in RankBrain’s mysterious capabilities that it’s now used to help with every query that the search engine handles, more than two trillion per year.

Having said that, Google has said that RankBrain also is used as an actual ranking signal, repeating that yesterday at our SMX Advanced show.For the SEO and search marketers worried about what they should do now that RankBrain has ramped up, the answer remains the same: nothing, but focus on great content. Even people at Google don’t quite understand how RankBrain does what it does, we’ve been told. Honest. But it’s ultimately designed to reward great content. So focus on that, which has always been the case with SEO, and you’re on the right track.

On December 14, 2014, Google announced the shutdown of Freebase -- Wikidata's strongest competitor. As they did, Google also provided powerful support by migrating all of Freebase's data over to Wikidata

Along with structured data, Wikipedia, and a handful of others, Wikidata is a go-to source for building this information

Do not use multiple accounts to edit the same Wikidata listing.