{"id":9451,"date":"2018-10-03T13:03:48","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T13:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordlift.io\/blog\/en\/?p=9451"},"modified":"2022-08-09T15:12:32","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T13:12:32","slug":"modern-seo-vs-old-seo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordlift.io\/blog\/en\/modern-seo-vs-old-seo\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern SEO vs Old-School SEO: Think beyond the meta fields!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you think that knowing <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\" title=\"creato\" href=\"https:\/\/wordlift.io\/blog\/en\/entity\/search-engine-optimization\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0216\/entity\/search_engine_optimization;http:\/\/rdf.freebase.com\/ns\/m.019qb_;http:\/\/dbpedia.org\/resource\/Search_engine_optimization;http:\/\/de.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Suchmaschinenoptimierung;http:\/\/pt.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Otimiza\u00e7\u00e3o_para_motores_de_busca;http:\/\/lt.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Optimizavimas_paie\u0161kos_sistemoms;http:\/\/lv.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Mekl\u0113t\u0101jprogrammas_optimiz\u0101cija;http:\/\/hr.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Optimizacija_web_stranice;http:\/\/hu.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Keres\u0151optimaliz\u00e1l\u00e1s;http:\/\/uk.dbpedia.org\/resource\/\u041e\u043f\u0442\u0438\u043c\u0456\u0437\u0430\u0446\u0456\u044f_\u0434\u043b\u044f_\u043f\u043e\u0448\u0443\u043a\u043e\u0432\u0438\u0445_\u0441\u0438\u0441\u0442\u0435\u043c;http:\/\/id.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Optimisasi_mesin_pencari;http:\/\/en.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Search_engine_optimization;http:\/\/it.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Ottimizzazione_(motori_di_ricerca);http:\/\/es.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Posicionamiento_en_buscadores;http:\/\/et.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Otsingumootoritele_optimeerimine;http:\/\/ro.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Optimizare_pentru_motoare_de_c\u0103utare;http:\/\/nl.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Zoekmachineoptimalisatie;http:\/\/no.dbpedia.org\/resource\/S\u00f8kemotoroptimalisering;http:\/\/be.dbpedia.org\/resource\/\u041f\u043e\u0448\u0443\u043a\u0430\u0432\u0430\u044f_\u0430\u043f\u0442\u044b\u043c\u0456\u0437\u0430\u0446\u044b\u044f;http:\/\/ru.dbpedia.org\/resource\/\u041f\u043e\u0438\u0441\u043a\u043e\u0432\u0430\u044f_\u043e\u043f\u0442\u0438\u043c\u0438\u0437\u0430\u0446\u0438\u044f;http:\/\/fi.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Hakukoneoptimointi;http:\/\/bg.dbpedia.org\/resource\/\u041e\u043f\u0442\u0438\u043c\u0438\u0437\u0430\u0446\u0438\u044f_\u0437\u0430_\u0442\u044a\u0440\u0441\u0430\u0447\u043a\u0438;http:\/\/fr.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Optimisation_pour_les_moteurs_de_recherche;http:\/\/sk.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Optimaliz\u00e1cia_pre_vyh\u013ead\u00e1va\u010de;http:\/\/sl.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Optimizacija_spletnih_strani;http:\/\/ca.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Optimitzaci\u00f3_per_a_motors_de_cerca;http:\/\/sq.dbpedia.org\/resource\/SEO;http:\/\/sr.dbpedia.org\/resource\/SEO_optimalizacija_veb-sajta;http:\/\/sv.dbpedia.org\/resource\/S\u00f6kmotoroptimering;http:\/\/cs.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Search_Engine_Optimization;http:\/\/pl.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Optymalizacja_dla_wyszukiwarek_internetowych;http:\/\/da.dbpedia.org\/resource\/S\u00f8gemaskineoptimering;http:\/\/tr.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Arama_motoru_optimizasyonu;http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0216\/entity\/search_engine_optimization\" >SEO<\/a> means working with semantic HTML and meta fields, you&#8217;re missing out. Creating sites as a builder or managing a site as an operator requires you to keep up with the latest techniques in SEO. SEO is changing though and old-school SEO techniques are still rife within the <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\"  href=\"https:\/\/wordlift.io\/blog\/en\/entity\/wordpress\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0216\/entity\/wordpress;http:\/\/rdf.freebase.com\/ns\/m.02vtpl;http:\/\/yago-knowledge.org\/resource\/WordPress;http:\/\/dbpedia.org\/resource\/WordPress\" >WordPress<\/a> community.<\/p>\n<p>Those were the topics that <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\" title=\"cyberandy\" href=\"https:\/\/wordlift.io\/blog\/en\/entity\/andrea-volpini\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0216\/entity\/andrea_volpini;http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0737\/entity\/andrea_volpini;https:\/\/www.wikidata.org\/wiki\/Q28085380;https:\/\/www.searchenginejournal.com\/seo\/seo-experts\/;https:\/\/www.longshot.ai\/blog\/top-seo-experts;https:\/\/digitalscholar.in\/seo-experts-in-the-world\/;https:\/\/g.co\/kg\/m\/0djtw2h;http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0216\/user\/cyberandy\" >Andrea Volpini<\/a> presented on his latest interview with&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/davidvogelpohl.com\/\">David Vogelpohl<\/a> on <em><strong>PressThis!<\/strong><\/em> They discuss how the next generation of web developers are helping their sites win in modern&nbsp;SEO. As the CEO of <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\" title=\"WordLift Srl\" href=\"https:\/\/wordlift.io\/blog\/en\/entity\/wordlift\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0216\/entity\/wordlift;http:\/\/www.wikidata.org\/entity\/Q31998763;http:\/\/dbpedia.org\/resource\/WordLift;http:\/\/data.redlink.io\/91\/be9\/entity\/wordlift.html;https:\/\/www.f6s.com\/company\/wordlift;http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0215\/entity\/wordlift;http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0301\/entity\/wordlift;https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?kgmid=\/g\/11f552clxy;http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0216\/entity\/wordlift_2\" >WordLift<\/a>, Andrea is well positioned to talk about how SEO has changed and what you can do to stay ahead.<br \/>\nIf your answer to SEO is to add meta fields to the site you build, you need to listen to this episode of <em>PressThis!<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>What is your WordPress origin story?<\/h3>\n<p>I don\u2019t have a proper one ? I\u2019ve been into CMS since the early ages of web development. In the late nineties I developed, together with my team, a CMS called <strong>Site Manager<\/strong>. At the time it was important to make a Website which could be also stored in a CD-Rom to be sold at news kiosk. But that wasn\u2019t enough, I also wanted something structured, so we implemented custom types and fields and you could define <strong>a structure where a content could have fields specific to its nature<\/strong>. But to keep such a custom CMS running took a lot of effort and that\u2019s when I met WordPress and I thought: I don\u2019t need to start from zero, I can extend WordPress to do it. That\u2019s more or less where I started working with WordPress.<\/p>\n<h3>Help people understand: what WordLift does for SEO?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>WordLift<\/strong> <strong>automates structured data markup<\/strong> and creates a <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\" title=\"knowledge graphs\" href=\"https:\/\/wordlift.io\/blog\/en\/entity\/knowledge-graph\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0216\/entity\/knowledge_graph;https:\/\/www.wikidata.org\/wiki\/Q33002955\" >knowledge graph<\/a> for your website that is designed to help search engines and virtual assistants (and software agents in general) know <strong>what your content is really about<\/strong>. It does more than this but this is the most relevant part.<\/p>\n<h3>What do you think about when you think about &#8220;old school SEO&#8221;?<\/h3>\n<p>SEO <strong>is really about information retrieval<\/strong> (applied to commercial search engines). Is there a way to make sure a crawler can index my pages at best? How are the results going to be organized once the user starts searching? These are evergreen concepts &#8211; one guy publishes content online, another one is (hopefully) looking for that content &#8211; in between &#8211; <strong>there is technology<\/strong> <strong>that links the publisher with his\/her audience<\/strong>. Some of the elements of this workflow didn\u2019t really change that much. The first time I \u201csold\u201d a search engine technology it was called the <em>AltaVista Enterprise Search Engine<\/em> (this says a lot about my age!). It was for Telecom Italia, AltaVista was top-notch and it could search over 200 different file formats. The crawler would go out and build an index made of all the keywords he could find in a document organized in such a way that I could look for a single keyword or a combination of keywords and I would get a ranked list of results. Indexation is still a big issue in SEO today and yes, it\u2019s pretty old school.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9481\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9481\" style=\"width: 506px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9481 size-full\" title=\"Information Retrieval\" src=\"https:\/\/wordlift.io\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/10\/Information-retrieval.jpg\" alt=\"Information retrieval\" width=\"506\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordlift.io\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/10\/Information-retrieval.jpg 506w, https:\/\/wordlift.io\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/10\/Information-retrieval-300x148.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wordlift.io\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/10\/Information-retrieval-150x74.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 506px) 100vw, 506px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9481\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Information Retrieval<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>What old school techniques need to die?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Keyword stuffing<\/strong> has been dead for a long time, and still we have tools that check that. Having a traffic light to let you know if the content is SEO optimized doesn\u2019t really make sense &#8211; <strong>the game is more complex than whatever a traffic light can understand,<\/strong> and being an SEO is really about <strong>knowing<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;the language that searchers will use, speaking like them and providing the best possible answer in the entire SERP<\/strong>. What else? Focus keyword doesn\u2019t really exist and tags are completely irrelevant in today\u2019s world but there are things like <strong>meta descriptions<\/strong> that a couple of years ago I would have said were useless (as Google is making them by itself) and indeed are still very powerful even in today semantic search world.<\/p>\n<h3>What is modern SEO anyway? Have things really changed that much?<\/h3>\n<p>Ranking has changed significantly due to <strong>machine learning<\/strong> and the work done to help Google understand the search intent. When <strong>Ray <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\" title=\"Ray Kurzweil\" href=\"https:\/\/wordlift.io\/blog\/en\/entity\/ray-kurzweil\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0216\/entity\/ray_kurzweil;http:\/\/rdf.freebase.com\/ns\/m.06gyd;http:\/\/yago-knowledge.org\/resource\/Ray_Kurzweil;http:\/\/dbpedia.org\/resource\/Ray_Kurzweil\" >Kurzweil<\/a><\/strong> arrived at Google in 2012 <strong>the goal was to help computers understand human language<\/strong>, and a lot has been done in that sense: think about the smart replays that you can now send from your Gmail account to help you respond to the messages that you receive. Modern SEO is really about: 1) rich semantics 2) great content that people read 3) user experience.<\/p>\n<h3>Many SEO agencies have switched to basically being content agencies, why?<\/h3>\n<p>Great content &#8211; yes. Remember that <strong>you need to make sure that your content matches the intent of the query<\/strong> and uses similar words and phrases that cover that topic. You also have to make sure to <strong>solve the searcher&#8217;s problem better than anyone else on page one<\/strong>. So yes great content is \u201calmost\u201d all you need to do.<\/p>\n<h3>What role do you see the developer playing in SEO in the future?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Improve data quality<\/strong>. Publish all the data that needs to be published at the right time, using the right licensing term,&nbsp;and in the right format. <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\" title=\"Artificial intelligence\" href=\"https:\/\/wordlift.io\/blog\/en\/entity\/artificial-intelligence\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0216\/entity\/artificial_intelligence;http:\/\/rdf.freebase.com\/ns\/m.0mkz;http:\/\/dbpedia.org\/resource\/Artificial_intelligence;http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0216\/entity\/artificial_intelligence_2;http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0216\/entity\/artificial_intelligence;http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0216\/entity\/artificial_intelligence_2;http:\/\/pt.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Intelig\u00eancia_artificial;http:\/\/hr.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Umjetna_inteligencija;http:\/\/hu.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Mesters\u00e9ges_intelligencia;http:\/\/id.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Kecerdasan_buatan;http:\/\/is.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Gervigreind;http:\/\/it.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Intelligenza_artificiale;http:\/\/ro.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Inteligen\u021b\u0103_artificial\u0103;http:\/\/be.dbpedia.org\/resource\/\u0428\u0442\u0443\u0447\u043d\u044b_\u0456\u043d\u0442\u044d\u043b\u0435\u043a\u0442;http:\/\/ru.dbpedia.org\/resource\/\u0418\u0441\u043a\u0443\u0441\u0441\u0442\u0432\u0435\u043d\u043d\u044b\u0439_\u0438\u043d\u0442\u0435\u043b\u043b\u0435\u043a\u0442;http:\/\/bg.dbpedia.org\/resource\/\u0418\u0437\u043a\u0443\u0441\u0442\u0432\u0435\u043d_\u0438\u043d\u0442\u0435\u043b\u0435\u043a\u0442;http:\/\/sk.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Umel\u00e1_inteligencia;http:\/\/sl.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Umetna_inteligenca;http:\/\/ca.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Intel\u00b7lig\u00e8ncia_artificial;http:\/\/sq.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Inteligjenca_artificiale;http:\/\/sr.dbpedia.org\/resource\/\u0412\u0458\u0435\u0448\u0442\u0430\u0447\u043a\u0430_\u0438\u043d\u0442\u0435\u043b\u0438\u0433\u0435\u043d\u0446\u0438\u0458\u0430;http:\/\/sv.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Artificiell_intelligens;http:\/\/cs.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Um\u011bl\u00e1_inteligence;http:\/\/da.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Kunstig_intelligens;http:\/\/tr.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Yapay_zek\u00e2;http:\/\/de.dbpedia.org\/resource\/K\u00fcnstliche_Intelligenz;http:\/\/lt.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Dirbtinis_intelektas;http:\/\/lv.dbpedia.org\/resource\/M\u0101ksl\u012bgais_intelekts;http:\/\/uk.dbpedia.org\/resource\/\u0428\u0442\u0443\u0447\u043d\u0438\u0439_\u0456\u043d\u0442\u0435\u043b\u0435\u043a\u0442;http:\/\/en.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Artificial_intelligence;http:\/\/es.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Inteligencia_artificial;http:\/\/et.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Tehisintellekt;http:\/\/nl.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Kunstmatige_intelligentie;http:\/\/no.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Kunstig_intelligens;http:\/\/fi.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Teko\u00e4ly;http:\/\/fr.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Intelligence_artificielle;http:\/\/pl.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Sztuczna_inteligencja\" >AI<\/a> needs data and as a developer, your role is to make sure you have the right infrastructure to manage and publish the data that machines will consume.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9479 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/wordlift.io\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/10\/computer-767776_1920-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"data quality\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordlift.io\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/10\/computer-767776_1920-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wordlift.io\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/10\/computer-767776_1920-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wordlift.io\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/10\/computer-767776_1920-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wordlift.io\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/10\/computer-767776_1920-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/wordlift.io\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/10\/computer-767776_1920-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/wordlift.io\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/10\/computer-767776_1920-1080x720.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/wordlift.io\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/10\/computer-767776_1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Have you seen any other examples of people using AI in their SEO strategy?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Content Recommendations<\/strong> can have a tremendous impact on how people access and consume content online. This is one area where I see AI being used not only by the team working on the CMS but also by SEOs. <em><strong>Can I rank<\/strong> <\/em>and <em><strong>MarketBrew<\/strong><\/em> analyze the search results and using AI models they provide users with data that help them choose, where to go next?&nbsp;To us \ud83d\ude42 We use <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\" title=\"NLP\" href=\"https:\/\/wordlift.io\/blog\/en\/entity\/natural-language-processing\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0216\/entity\/natural_language_processing;http:\/\/rdf.freebase.com\/ns\/m.05flf;http:\/\/dbpedia.org\/resource\/Natural_language_processing;http:\/\/be.dbpedia.org\/resource\/\u0410\u043f\u0440\u0430\u0446\u043e\u045e\u043a\u0430_\u043d\u0430\u0442\u0443\u0440\u0430\u043b\u044c\u043d\u0430\u0439_\u043c\u043e\u0432\u044b;http:\/\/ru.dbpedia.org\/resource\/\u041e\u0431\u0440\u0430\u0431\u043e\u0442\u043a\u0430_\u0435\u0441\u0442\u0435\u0441\u0442\u0432\u0435\u043d\u043d\u043e\u0433\u043e_\u044f\u0437\u044b\u043a\u0430;http:\/\/pt.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Processamento_de_linguagem_natural;http:\/\/bg.dbpedia.org\/resource\/\u041e\u0431\u0440\u0430\u0431\u043e\u0442\u043a\u0430_\u043d\u0430_\u0435\u0441\u0442\u0435\u0441\u0442\u0432\u0435\u043d_\u0435\u0437\u0438\u043a;http:\/\/lt.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Nat\u016bralios_kalbos_apdorojimas;http:\/\/fr.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Traitement_automatique_du_langage_naturel;http:\/\/uk.dbpedia.org\/resource\/\u041e\u0431\u0440\u043e\u0431\u043a\u0430_\u043f\u0440\u0438\u0440\u043e\u0434\u043d\u043e\u0457_\u043c\u043e\u0432\u0438;http:\/\/id.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Pemrosesan_bahasa_alami;http:\/\/ca.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Processament_de_llenguatge_natural;http:\/\/sr.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Obrada_prirodnih_jezika;http:\/\/en.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Natural_language_processing;http:\/\/is.dbpedia.org\/resource\/M\u00e1lgreining;http:\/\/it.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Elaborazione_del_linguaggio_naturale;http:\/\/es.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Procesamiento_de_lenguajes_naturales;http:\/\/cs.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Zpracov\u00e1n\u00ed_p\u0159irozen\u00e9ho_jazyka;http:\/\/pl.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Przetwarzanie_j\u0119zyka_naturalnego;http:\/\/ro.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Prelucrarea_limbajului_natural;http:\/\/da.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Sprogteknologi;http:\/\/tr.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Do\u011fal_dil_i\u015fleme\" >natural language processing<\/a> and linked data to help you rank higher and there are several factors involved in this process.<\/p>\n<h3>Search engines use AI to rank sites. Won&#8217;t this mean that SEO will be dead?<\/h3>\n<p>There is a significant shift in SEO: researches show that CTR on mobile SERP is starting to decrease, the advent of <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\" title=\"Google Voice Search\" href=\"https:\/\/wordlift.io\/blog\/en\/entity\/google-voice\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0216\/entity\/google_voice_search;http:\/\/dbpedia.org\/resource\/Google_Voice_Search;https:\/\/www.wikidata.org\/wiki\/Q2736257\" >Voice Search<\/a> is also a paradigm shift. Does this mean that machines&nbsp;are capable of automatically organize human knowledge?&nbsp;Not really. We\u2019re still much behind in terms of what a computer can really do. <strong>Humans still have control over the intended behavior of a system<\/strong> (i.e. <em>\u201cI want to sell modern SEO tools\u201d<\/em>, <em>\u201cI want travelers to book a room in my hotel\u201d<\/em> and so on) &#8211; and&nbsp;knowledge graphs are the best way that humans have to communicate to machines their \u201cintended goal\u201d. SEO right now is a lot about <strong>data creation<\/strong>, <strong>data quality<\/strong>, <strong>and data integration.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>What are your future plans for WordLift?<\/h3>\n<p>We need to make it super-easy for our users to <strong>let their content talk with software agents and personal digital assistants<\/strong> like Siri, Alexa, Cortana, and the <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\"  href=\"https:\/\/wordlift.io\/blog\/en\/entity\/google-assistant\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0216\/entity\/google_assistant;https:\/\/www.wikidata.org\/wiki\/Q25025241;http:\/\/dbpedia.org\/resource\/Google_Assistant\" >Google Assistant<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you think that knowing SEO means working with semantic HTML and meta fields, you&#8217;re missing out. Creating sites as a builder or managing a site as an operator requires you to keep up with the latest techniques in SEO. 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