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january 21, 2026

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Building web authority.

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šŸˆ Take a peek at brands are cooking up for the big game.

šŸ¤– Marketers are scrambling to prepare for ChatGPT ads.

šŸŽæ How NBCUniversal is marketing the 2026 Winter Olympics as a ā€œpop culture franchise.ā€

🚫 TikTok still faces expulsion from the US, btw.

šŸ“‰ Report: Organic search traffic is down 2.5% YoY.

4 Ways to Build Website Authority

Website authority is a measure of how credible search engines and, increasingly, AI systems view your site. Strong authority means your content earns trust, ranks for more keywords, and attracts backlinks that signal relevance and reliability.

Building that authority takes consistently showing value to users and to other sites in your niche.

Try these 4 tactics to increase your site authority:Ā 

  1. Earn good backlinks. Create content that other people want to link to: original research, comprehensive guides, visually engaging assets, and useful tools that naturally attract links from reputable domains.
  2. Optimize for relevant keywords. Conduct thorough keyword research and craft topic clusters to demonstrate topical expertise and relevance across your niche.
  3. Strengthen internal linking. Use your most authoritative pages to pass link equity across your site, connect topic clusters, and fix orphaned pages that lack internal links.
  4. Boost online mentions. Build industry relationships through guest and expert appearances and contributions that generate brand mentions (and ideally backlinks) from authoritative sources.

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