What do you do after you've mastered Moz's SEO starter guide? The answer may be Advanced SEO.
Advanced SEO is simply any set of SEO techniques that require some degree of expert knowledge. It varies from person to person, but let's just say you probably won't master these in your first few months.
Advanced SEO typically involves technical concepts that are somewhat advanced, and/or a deeper understanding of the workings of Google's algorithm and are often employed by Professional SEOs. Anyone can master advanced concepts with the right strategic guidance and real life application.
Here, we've listed some of our favorite resources on advanced SEO, and you'll find the most recent blog posts below.
Professional’s Guide to SEO : Professional SEO strategy all in one place, with chapters written by SEO experts, including Pete Meyers and Tom Capper.
Advanced SEO Strategy : Your SEO is only as good as the strategy you've set. Learn how to craft a next-level SEO strategy that will work for your business and goals.
Working in SEO : What does it mean to work in SEO? Learn more about the skills you need to advance your SEO career with this final chapter of the Professional’s Guide to SEO.
20 SEOs Share Their Key Takeaways From the Google API Leaks : Discover expert insights from the recent Google API documentation leak with actionable strategies to help you become a better SEO strategist.
Your rankings have dropped and you don't know why. Maybe your traffic dropped as well, or maybe just a section of your site has lost rankings. It's an important mystery to solve, and in this Whiteboard Friday, Rand shares a detailed process to follow to diagnose what went wrong, why it happened, and how to recover.
We spent much of 2017 improving and reinforcing our SEO products to better serve the experts who use them. Check out the biggest updates from the past year, and get a sneak peek at what we have planned for 2018!
For the past ten years, Rand has made a set of predictions for SEO in the year ahead, and for all ten years he's been largely correct. Check out what he got right in 2017, and pay close attention to his predictions for 2018 — they're doozies!
Correlations data isn't always as clear as it seems. In this Whiteboard Friday, Rand shares the myths and realities of correlations in SEO ranking factor studies, then offers five smart ways to glean more trustworthy, useful information from the data.
Complete courses to master SEO basics
Learn Keyword Research like the pros
Win rankings and traffic from your competition
This edition of Whiteboard Friday covers a nine-point SEO checklist of the major items you need to cross off to rank in 2018 — and maybe get some hints on how to explain it to others, too.
We've curated a hefty list of the Moz Blog's top posts throughout the year, covering all of our most popular categories. Come check out what you may have missed, see which community members made the Top 10 Comments, and help us ring in 2018 right!
The end of November saw a spike in the average length of SERP snippets. Across 90K results, we found a definite increase but many oddities, such as video snippets. Our data suggests that many snippets are exceeding 300 characters, and we recommend a new meta description limit of 300 characters.
Looking to reduce the level of direct traffic in your Google Analytics reports? This guide defines exactly what constitutes direct traffic and how to combat it in your reports for better data.
AMP can offer some serious benefits, even for e-commerce (one business saw conversion rates improve 100%), but implementing it sloppily will come back to haunt you. Check out case studies and analyses that just may convince you to accelerate your mobile pages in 2018.
We're well aware that PPC can have an effect on our organic results. But what effect is that, exactly, and how does it work? This week's Whiteboard Friday covers the ways paid influences organic — and one very important way it doesn't.
Schema.org can be a confusing resource if you're trying to learn how to use and implement structured data. This mini-guide arms you with the right kind of thinking to tackle your next structured data project.
It's been revealed that version 41 of the Google Chrome browser is the technology behind Google's crawler. What does this mean for developers, and how can you use this in your own SEO toolkit?
Googlebot can't crawl or index sites using HTTP/2 alone. Based on the results of this experiment, you may want to continue optimizing for HTTP/1.1 as well.
This comprehensive competitive analysis guide & checklist will help you ID areas of opportunity and expose niches where your site can beat your competition, without having to guess which “best practice” you should test next.