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How important are external links in 2018. How much of a percentage do they represent when deciding to rank a page.

I imagine it depends on the query but I was wondering it if 10 % of of 60 % ?

My feeling is that with good content you can get on almost any query on the 1 st page without links because that would be too penalising to small business if they had no possibility to rank with just content.

Looking forward to getting some feedback.

How do you find phrases that co-occur together and go in the same cluster.

I know that I can do keyword research via the keyword tool as well as other tools and even google related searches but I have the feeling it is very limited. Does anyone have any other advice or tools  ?

Once you figure our the correct words / expression is there a way to write your sentences, does syntax have an impact ?

Hello,

Can a twitter, facebook, linkedin or instagram business page be considered an influencer

Or

Does an influencer need to absolutely be a person ?

Thank you,

Hello,

Can you explain me how you use keyword explorer for SEO because I watched many video  and after watching them everything is a little confusing...

From my understanding, you have you main keyword let's say "Normandy bike tours". Based on that keyword you decide to cover TOPICS. Let's say I decide to cover D-Day landings, Omaha beach and and Caen on my page about" Normandy bike tours" ( I could cover more or others I imagine but now let's say those TOPICS are the ones I have decided to cover.

From that point on what I understand is that I need to cover each of those TOPICS and the way to cover each of them is to type each of those words separately in the keyword explorer and look for words that the keyword explorer gives mes that it considers to be "semantically related" to each of those TOPICS.

Then, if I choose the corrects one google will understand the different TOPIC and that should boost my ranking.

Is it the whole idea ?

PS : How many do you look at to find semantically related words ? 10, 20 or more ?

Thank you,

Hello,

I use to move up my site structure with links in content. I have now installed breadcrumbs, is it is useful to still keep the links in content or isn't there a need to duplicate those links ? and are the breadcrumbs links enough.

Thank you,

Hello,

I am the exclusive reseller of a product in Switzerland. However, when I type the name of the product the maker of the product appears 1 st on google with its website instead of my website that ends in .ch ?

I appear nowhere when I type the product name and my website has been online for more than 6 months. How can I make sure I appear 1 st above the maker of that product ?

The only place I appear is in the right side with the adresse and phone number but I would like to appear in the search results (blue links).

Thank you,

Hello,

I checked my website spam score in link explorer and found out it has got 28 %.

What do you recommend I do ? should I ask for all the links to be removed (even though some of them are no followed)

Is it possible that google has penalised me because of that score and de-ranked me ?

Thank you,

I would like to figure out which site(s) they visit before and after they come to my site because, what they read, which etc... so that I can target them most specifically

How can I do that ?

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Hello,

I am wondering how to deal with internal anchor text.

I read here and there that it shouldn't be too optimised but I also read that this is how google understands what my page is aout.

I have breadcrumbs with my main keyword in the anchor text and can't change that it is automatic.

In other words if i have 10 breadcrumb going to my top page with the keyword can I be penalised ?

Thank you, I will try that.

Why is is recommended to write in bullet points format for the web ?

Thank you,

Hi Meghan,

I have no manual action on my google dashboard does it mean I shouldn't worry ?

Thank you, I will have a look at the link you sent.

I see thank you for your reply.

Hello,

To rank on China bike tour. Is it ok to write in the title "Explore china on a bike tour - My company name bike tours"

Or do I need to absolutely "China bike tour" in the title tag ?

Thank you,

How is it considered by google at the end of a sentence ?

New paragraph or not ?

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Is the time it takes to rank keyword dependant ? in other word does it take more time for a page to rank on a keyword that has 5000 request a month than for a page to rank on a keyword that has 50 requests a month ?

Thank you Jeff for your detailed reply. It is good to hear that google can read in between the line.

So if I understand well, I shouldn't worry. The user intent of China bike tour is the same as Explore China on a bike tour (at least to me). Hopefully it is the same to google

That is correct.

How do I find blog post ideas for my website blog when there are only very few questions people have.

I am a tour operator operator and the the keywords I target are Provence bike tour, Normandy bike tour , Tuscany bike tour and so on.

I am trying to to find blog ideas to create a topic cluster for those pillar pages.

Any advice on how to find blog ideas that could boost my pillar pages.

Thank you,

I have  multiple webpages built on the same exact model and none of them have external links ? Some rank within a few days some don’t why is that ?

Has anyone experienced this ? and any idea what it could be due to ?

I have 2 possibilities lsi density or lsi used or topics used ?

Does anyone ha e any other idea ?