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Nofollow
A backlink that carries the “nofollow” HTML tag. This indicates to search engines that should not count as a vote of quality for that site.
Some sites, particularly those with user-generated content, will mark all of their backlinks as nofollow, to avoid abuse of their content systems to generate backlink SEO value for third-party websites.
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Reputation Management
Reputation Management refers to a variety of tasks related to upholding and maintaining a company’s public image. Reputation management tasks can include issuing surveys to assess customer happiness, encouraging company reviews of the company’s customers, and responding to reviews in order to address customer concerns and feedback.
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Analytics
Analytics in digital marketing can refer to any type of analysis of data collected from a digital source. Trends and insights from this data can inform business decisions.
Google Analytics is a specific analytical platform, designed to monitor and analyze web traffic. However, there are hundreds of different analytical tools available online, and thousands of types of analysis. Structuring your analysis to focus on the most important data points is key in avoiding confusion.
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Software as a Service (SaaS)
Software tools that are an end product in themselves, but help to facilitate other services or product creation. Examples include project management software and graphic design software.
Entire companies exist to provide software tools to individuals or businesses, as well as support for those products.
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