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Search Engine Land

These six words should be plastered on the desks of every SEO in the world. Also, a decade ago, the PR world went wild talking about the patent. Moz wrote an excellent article explaining all this in 2014. But the link economy is large, and SEOs are stubborn. But we’re not in 2014 any longer.

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Search Engine Land

Google Panda patent granted In 2014, a patent ( Ranking search results ) written by Google’s Navneet Panda and Vladimir Ofitserov – possibly describing the Google Panda algorithm update , or parts of it – was granted. on SEO by the Sea. And here’s the patent.

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Lee Odden is the CEO at TopRank Marketing while also finding time to be an author, speaker, consultant on B2B content and influencer marketing, social media, PR, and SEO. Matt Heinz (@HeinzMarketing) October 24, 2014. FTQZ6zlOdi <-fr our 2012 / 2014 archives #keynote #throwback. — Neal Schaffer. Chris Brogan.