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How to Prod, Poke, and Fire Up Your Readers: 8 Science-Backed Tips for Impactful Writing

Enchanting Marketing

Shorter paragraphs, shorter sentences, and shorter words indicate that a text is easier to read. Of course, including specific details makes a text a tad more complicated and a bit harder to read. Or do they make a text needlessly complicated? You can both choose what you want to share, and the information transfers instantly.

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Citation Examples for APA, MLA, and Chicago Style Guides

Grammarly

In-text citations vs. full citations The two main types of citations are in-text citations and full citations. In-text citations appear in the body text of the paper and provide the bare minimum of information to identify the source. These usually include the author’s name and sometimes a page number or publication date.

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The 5 Best Books on SEO To Read in 2023

BKA Content

SEO Like I’m 5: The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Search Engine Optimization “ SEO Like I’m 5 ” by Matthew Capala is your go-to resource for the foundational concepts of SEO. The most recent updates are from 2016, so you wouldn’t use them to dive into action on your own website.

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What Is Link Equity? How To Keep The Link Juice Flowing

Fat Joe

In 2016, Google’s Search Quality Senior Strategist Andrey Lipattsev confirmed that links are among the top two ranking factors. The Anchor Text The anchor text is the visible text in a link that users can click to navigate to another page. Google uses the text surrounding a link to determine its context and relevance.

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My 2023 Creative and Business Goals With Joanna Penn

The Creative Penn

Penn, but the basic concept is about writing from your darker side, and about integrating your shadow into your creative work, rather than trying to bury it or sublimate it. Regular readers and listeners to the show know that I have been commentating on the AI space since Alpha Go beat Lee Sodol at the game of Go in 2016.

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Affiliate Marketing Tools: The 17+ Tools Every Marketer Needs

Intergrowth

The only issue with this concept is that making it as an affiliate marketer is no easy feat. However, the published timestamp that appears in search results makes it seem like we wrote this 2018 guide in 2016. Image Attributes Pro It’s no secret that adding alt text to each image is a pain in the ass.

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A Brief History of the $100 Billion SEO Industry

Fat Joe

Also called the “Farmer” rollout, the search giant wanted to prevent websites from using duplicated text or content that didn’t say anything substantive. Here, search algorithms determined whether it was worth highlighting in-page text in the search results window to answer users’ questions directly for a specific search request.

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