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260k Search Results Analyzed: Here’s How Google Evaluates Your Content [Data Study]
Discover how Google’s recent updates prioritize helpful content and topic authority to provide users with accurate and trustworthy information in this study.
Eric Van Buskirk
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Van Buskirk is a leading SEO data study pro. He’s worked with (very) big data sets from ahrefs, SEMrush, SimilarWeb, BuzzSumo, and others. His articles with methods, results, and actionable insights are published on clients’ websites, including BackLinko, NeilPatel.com, and here on SEJ.
He founded ClickStream, a data-driven SEO and content marketing agency. He uses his bleeding-edge knowledge of Google ranking signals for clients in USA and Europe. His digital media experience started in 1996 as a graduate student at BU College of Communications, working on Barnes & Noble’s first website.
Articles
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6 Free Tools to Score Comprehensive, Quality Web Pages
There are many tools to help evaluate your website. Here are some tools that can score quality web page content so you can learn from...
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Keep It Simple Stupid: A Recap of The Unbounce Conversion Road Show
A recap of The Conversion Road Show, put on by the landing page conversion and optimization company Unbounce, in Boston and three other cities.
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4 Data Analysis Techniques Illustrated via The Pigeon Algorithm
Techniques for evaluating a Google algorithm effects on a niche can be applied to how other effects specific to industries change their Google rankings.
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A Thorough Data Analysis of Google’s Pirate Filter
Last week, Google began releasing its Pirate update; a penalty against what it called “notorious” piracy sites violating copyright laws. The first “Pirate” filter rolled...