What is a neural network?
Neural networks: what can artificial neural networks do?
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Neural networks generate artificial intelligence. They ensure that Siri, Alexa and Google respond to us appropriately and help medical professionals recognize diseases earlier. The technology itself is not new, but it has seen rapid development in recent years. In the following, we will explain how neural networks function.

Neural networks: what can artificial neural networks do?
The Google evolution: Mobile search results
Google mobile search: the evolution of the Google search
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In the modern world you don’t just have your smartphone on you at all times – you have Google as your daily companion as well. Through its broad range of services and applications for mobile devices the search engine market leader has taken a firm grip of the mobile phone industry with the help of its many partners. Google offers more than just a mere mobile search, the company provides personal...

Google mobile search: the evolution of the Google search
What is RankBrain?
RankBrain: the evolution of the Google algorithm
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Google is the search engine of choice for an overwhelming majority of internet users around the world. Around 3 billion user requests are answered each day by the market leader. This is partially thanks to a self-learning AI system known as RankBrain. Normally, Google lays low when it comes to revealing its search algorithms but this time the company has been quite open. We explain how RankBrain...

RankBrain: the evolution of the Google algorithm
How does content curation work?
Content curation
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“Content is King.” The content marketing battle cry is still relevant. However, for a few years now, there has been a slight shift: further back in the past there was nothing but self-developed contributions, today you also have to rely on distributing external content. Content curation has brought about a contemporary form of online marketing, oriented on social media and traditional cultural...

Content curation
Google Search Console: Things to know before you start
Google Search Console for beginners
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Google provides web developers with many free tools, but hardly any are as versatile and valuable to the SEO sector as the Google Search Console. Using the free analyzer tool, developers can take their website’s settings and technical optimizations into their own hands, gain access to statistics not visible to the public, and learn to better understand the “Google view” of things. The only...

Google Search Console for beginners
SEO add-ins for Excel - easily connecting data
SEO add-ins for Excel: optimizing and editing all in one
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SEO data is the bedrock for any successful online marketing venture. The calculating power of Excel is a boon to data analysts when it comes to processing metrics and analysis data. But how can these large quantities of data gathered from SEO tools be directly processed in Excel? SEO plugins for Excel offer a very practical possibility here. We present the most useful extensions here.

SEO add-ins for Excel: optimizing and editing all in one
YouTube SEO: how to improve your ranking
YouTube SEO: ranking factors and optimization tips
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There’s much more to YouTube videos than ensuring they are available in HD quality. High definition is just one of many criteria that determine the ranking position of your clips in the video platform’s SERPs. Through a mixture of traditional and modern measures of SEO, YouTube videos and channels can be optimized – increasing your ranking and helping you gain viewers.

YouTube SEO: ranking factors and optimization tips
Cloaking – a SEO taboo
Cloaking – SEO tactics against Google policy
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Cloaking is a technique used by website operators to deceive search engines and in doing so gain a better ranking. By learning about this black hat SEO method, you can make sure to avoid implementing accidental cloaking tactics for your website and so ensure you’re not at risk of being excluded from the index of the leading search engine results pages. This introduction to cloaking will explain...

Cloaking – SEO tactics against Google policy
Chrome 56: changes to make the web safer
Google is planning to label unsafe websites in Chrome
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For two years now, Google has been actively promoting SSL encryption for websites. The search engine giant started acknowledging data transfer protection as a ranking factor in 2014, but now wants to go one step further. Users of Google’s browser, Chrome, will soon be actively warned about websites with unsafe data exchanges. This articles explains what the planned changes are and which...

Google is planning to label unsafe websites in Chrome
Keyword Planner alternatives you should know
Keyword Planner: 5 alternatives to the Google tool
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Google‘s Keyword Planner has already undergone numerous changes; new features have been added and existing features have been optimized. Since the end of 2016, the keyword-based tool has only had limited usability unless you have a larger AdWords campaign. Instead of obtaining exact values for the search volume of reviewed keywords, users of the free edition only get approximate range values that...

Keyword Planner: 5 alternatives to the Google tool