Internal Linking Strategy: Route Authority to Money Pages

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Internal linking is the only ranking lever that costs nothing, needs nobody’s permission, and can be finished this week. Most sites do it badly — here is how to route authority from the pages that have it to the pages that need it. Every other tactic in SEO requires something from someone else. Backlinks need […]

Content Gap Analysis: How to Find What You Haven’t Covered

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A content gap is a subject your competitors rank for and you have not covered. Finding them is the closest thing to a shortcut in SEO, because someone else has already proved the demand exists. Here is the process, and how to tell a real gap from a trap. Most content planning starts with a […]

How to Find and Fix Broken Internal Links

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Broken internal links waste crawl budget, dead-end your visitors, and quietly strand the authority that was flowing through them. Every site over a year old has some. Here is how to find yours, and which fix each type actually needs. A broken internal link is a link on your own site pointing at a URL […]

What Is Anchor Text? Types and How to Vary It Safely

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Anchor text tells search engines what a page is about. It is also the loudest signal in a backlink profile, which means over-optimising it is the fastest way to make a link programme look manufactured. Here is how to vary it safely. Anchor text is the clickable words in a link. That is the whole […]

Referring Domains vs Backlinks: Which Should You Track?

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One site linking to you fifty times is one vote, not fifty. Confusing referring domains with backlinks makes profiles look four times stronger than they are — and it is why competitor comparisons so often produce the wrong target. Open any backlink tool and you get two numbers side by side. One is usually much […]

What Is Domain Rating? DR Explained for Beginners

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Domain Rating is a third-party estimate, not a Google metric, and it gets much harder to move as you climb. Understanding what it measures — and the four things it does not — is what stops you buying links that raise a number and move nothing. DR is the first number anyone quotes about a […]