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A Brief History of SEO

If you're an SEO, you spend a lot of your time educating clients and colleagues. That'll be a lot easier if you can explain why Google rewards certain things, and penalizes others. In this video Todd Malicoat walks you through a brief history of SEO, and shows you how Google has historically responded to various SEO techniques, why they've changed the things they've changed, and why yesterday's SEO techniques may harm you today.

Length: 30 min.

You will learn:

  • How understanding the history of SEO helps you make the business case for SEO
  • The 4 Important Variables you need to focus on
  • The 11 major changes in SEO history
  • Why on page optimization is no longer the holy grail
  • How Google's Offpage focus changed the game forever
  • Why Google instituted the Fresh Crawl
  • Why the Sandbox is about trust and age
  • How Duplicate Content can be detrimental to your ranking
  • Why Google embraced Human Editorial
  • Why Google will never say it's okay to buy links
  • Why you should stay away from retail link brokers

 

 
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