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Exploring the Fascinating History of SEO

Content Hacker

These on-page elements include titles, headings, meta tags, images, alt text, etc. 2003: Google Introduces the Florida Update & Nofollow Attribute In 2003, Google introduced the “Florida” update to its algorithm. On-page optimization focuses on optimizing individual web pages within a website.

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The Four Best Blogging Platforms in 2023

Shorthand Content Marketing

They all run on text-based searches and written content. It’s a way to increase the keywords your site ranks for, and to offer value to your potential customers. That’s because Blogger has been around since 1999, and was purchased by Google in 2003. The number one website in the world is Google.

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12 Most Insightful eCommerce Blogs To Follow for the New Year

ContentWriters

As blogging began to grow, WordPress came on the scene in 2003, and in 2004, Merriam-Webster named “blog” as the top word of the year, saying it was the most often looked-up word on its site during the previous twelve months. The Neil Patel Blog is an interesting mix of text posts, video posts, and podcasts.

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A Brief History of the $100 Billion SEO Industry

Fat Joe

SEO lets companies grow their businesses online on their terms, without the restrictions of traditional advertising or the lack of attribution from other marketing methods. It happened when a web marketing agency saw an opportunity to provide services to help brands rank higher in search results for business-related keywords.

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Fifteen Years Is a Long Time in SEO

Moz

Keywords: Basic information retrieval became adversarial information retrieval as webmasters realized that they could game the system with keyword stuffing, hidden text, and more. In the early days, the founders had talked of their disdain for advertising, and had experimented with keyword-based adverts somewhat reluctantly.

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