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Study: 31% of international websites contain hreflang errors

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Implementing hreflang can be a challenging task for many SEOs. The countless syntax variations across several languages can be difficult for those with little understanding of more than one language. NerdyData provided a list of 18,786 websites that contain at least one instance of hreflang declaring an alternate within the source code.

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Google publishes new link best practices

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The new document now reads, “Generally, Google can only crawl your link if it’s an <a> HTML element (also known as anchor element ) with an href attribute. Google can’t reliably extract URLs from <a> elements that don’t have an href attribute or other tags that perform as links because of script events.

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An SEO guide to nofollow, UGC and sponsored links

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Regular links vs. nofollow, UGC and sponsored links Regular links are created using simple HTML, such as: <a href="[link] Engine Land</a> If you have this “regular” link on your site, you can expect Google to follow the link and parse the page without qualifiers. What if the sponsored link is for an internal link?

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7 ways to use the ‘inspect element’ tool for SEO

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You can expand and collapse elements to browse that page’s code. From the Elements tab, you can see what the page would look like if you edited, removed or added elements. You can also find information about how a website is set up. The Console, Sources, Network and other tabs can also help with more advanced technical audits. Edit the copy.

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Enterprise SEO: Why ‘best practices’ won’t cut it and what to do instead 

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The business implications and costs associated with SSR migration are not worth the high effort and low impact. Unless an enterprise website is built from the ground up to be server-side rendered or is going through a website migration already, there’s rarely a reason to migrate to SSR. And that was probably a conservative estimate. Tap into that.

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Does HTML structure matter for SEO?

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In case you missed the latest podcast episode of Search Off the Record, Google’s Gary Ilyes stirred up some controversy when he made a comment about HTML structure not mattering much for SEO. He later clarified on Linkedin that “not mattering much” doesn’t mean “doesn’t matter at all.” Still, that didn’t stop any of the SEO controversy.

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Agile for SEOs: How in-house teams get projects prioritized

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If you work in-house, you’ve likely experienced the “fear of missing out” (FOMO) when it comes to getting your optimization work properly resourced and implemented. The good news is that a project management methodology called “Agile” can help cross-functional teams self-organize and collaborate more effectively. Sound familiar ?)