A referring domain is a unique website that contains at least one backlink pointing to your site. If The New York Times links to you from 10 different articles, that’s 10 backlinks but only 1 referring domain. The distinction matters because Google weights the number of unique referring domains more heavily than total backlink count….
I’ve built links for over 100 client domains in the past decade, and here’s what nobody tells you: most link building advice is recycled garbage from 2018. The strategies that actually work in 2026 are different, not because Google changed everything overnight, but because the competitive landscape evolved faster than most SEOs keep up with….
I’ve saved dozens of pages from the digital graveyard. Pages that dropped from position 3 to position 18 in four months. Articles losing 60% of their traffic while I watched, paralyzed by not knowing what to fix first. The worst part? I didn’t notice until it was almost too late. A 15% drop one month…
Link juice is a colloquial SEO term for the ranking power or authority that passes from one page to another through hyperlinks. When a high-authority page links to your page, it transfers some of its PageRank or link equity to you, boosting your ability to rank in search results. Think of it like a vote…
A 404 error is an HTTP status code that means “page not found”, the server can’t locate the requested URL. When a user or search engine crawler tries to access a page that doesn’t exist (or has been deleted without a 301 redirect), the server returns a 404 error instead of the page content. For…
SERP stands for Search Engine Results Page, the page you see after entering a query into Google, Bing, or any search engine. It’s where search engines display a ranked list of results, along with various features like featured snippets, People Also Ask boxes, image packs, video carousels, local map results, and ads. The SERP is…
A dofollow link is a standard hyperlink that allows search engines to follow it and pass link equity (ranking power) from the linking page to the destination page. Unlike nofollow links, which include a rel=”nofollow” attribute telling search engines not to count the link, dofollow links are the default state of all hyperlinks. They’re essentially…
A 301 redirect is a permanent server-side redirect that sends users and search engines from one URL to another while passing nearly all of the original page’s link equity (ranking power) to the new URL. When you move, delete, or consolidate pages on your site, a 301 redirect tells Google “this page has permanently moved…
Domain Authority (DA) is a search engine ranking score developed by Moz that predicts how likely a website is to rank in search results, scored from 1 to 100. Higher scores indicate a stronger ability to rank. It’s calculated using multiple factors, primarily the quantity and quality of backlinks pointing to a domain, but also…
A nofollow link is a hyperlink with a rel=”nofollow” HTML attribute that tells search engines not to pass link equity (ranking power) to the linked page. It’s essentially a way to link to another site without vouching for it or boosting its SEO. Google introduced the nofollow attribute in 2005 to combat comment spam and…
A backlink is a hyperlink from one website to another. When Site B links to Site A, that’s a backlink for Site A. Search engines like Google use backlinks as votes of confidence, the logic being that if credible sites link to your content, it’s probably valuable and deserves to rank higher. But not all…
An XML sitemap is a file that lists all the important pages on your website in a structured format that search engines can easily read. Think of it as a roadmap you hand to Google, Bing, and other search engines, telling them exactly which pages exist, when they were last updated, and how they relate…
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