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Timeline of search engine optimization

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| 2005 || || {{w|SEO contest}} || "Msnbetter Thangoogle 2005. Polish SEO contest intended to promote SEO in Poland and get the attention of search engines. There were some small prizes like an MP3 player, and SEO book, a cup, and even an honorary title of “Polish master of positioning internet websites 2005.” The contest ended on October 1st, 2005."<ref name="Previous SEO Competitions"/>
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| 2005 || November || || "That November, {{w|Google}} launches {{w|Google Analytics launched}}. This free, which is still used today to measure traffic web-based tool would become so popular at launch that webmasters would experience downtime and campaign ROImaintenance warnings."<ref name="A Brief History of Search & SEO"/> <ref name="Google – Introduced personalized search. Announced that hyperlinks with rel=”nofollow”[4] would not influence the link target’s PageRank. Google acquired Urchin software and launched Google Analyticsseo.comf"/><ref name="seo.comf20 Years of SEO: A Brief History of Search Engine Optimization"/>
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| 2005 || December || || "Google also unleashed a couple of noteworthy updates:" "Big Daddy (coined by Jeff Manson of RealGeeks), which improved the architecture of Google to allow for improved understanding of the worth and relationship of links between sites."<ref name="20 Years of SEO: A Brief History of Search Engine Optimization"/><ref>{{cite web |title=Google’s Big Daddy Update: Big Changes to Google’s Infrastructure & the SERPs |url=https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-algorithm-history/big-daddy-update/ |website=searchenginejournal.com |accessdate=4 January 2020}}</ref>
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| 2006 || || || "Google also launched two incredibly important products in 2006:" "Google Webmaster Tools. Now known as the Search Console, Google Webmaster Tools let webmasters view crawling errors, see what searches your site showed up for, and request reinclusion."<ref name="20 Years of SEO: A Brief History of Search Engine Optimization"/>
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| 2006 || || || "Google also launched two incredibly important products in 2006:" "Google Analytics. This free, web-based tool was so popular at launch that webmasters experienced downtime and maintenance warnings."<ref name="20 Years of SEO: A Brief History of Search Engine Optimization"/>
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| 2006 || || || "Also in 2006 XML sitemaps gained universal support from the search engines. XML sitemaps allow webmasters to display to the search engines, every URL on their website that is available for crawling. An XML sitemap contains not only a list of URLs but a range of further information, which helped search engines to crawl more intelligently."<ref name="20 Years of SEO: A Brief History of Search Engine Optimization"/> "XML Sitemaps, introduced in 2006 and acquired a great support from the search engines."<ref name="amcodigital.com"/>
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