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.
How fresh is this article? Through patent filings over the years, Google has explored many ways that it might use “freshness” as a ranking signal. Back in 2011, we published a popular Moz Blog post about these “Freshness Factors” for SEO. Following our own advice, this is a brand new update of that article.
A number of years ago I sat in on a webinar that covered behaviors of great SEOs - a topic that really intrigued me as a young but experienced digital marketer wanting to grow in the space. Through a variety of interactions in response to the presentation, mostly sharing how each person worked with brands to get things done, someo...
Implementing Schema used to require a lot of changes to your site's markup, but the JSON-LD format created a great alternative to adding microdata to a page with minimal code. This post details how to make it even easier to dynamically generate Schema.org/JSON-LD tags for your site using Google Tag Manager.
Sometimes you have so much data it causes Excel to fail. When that happens, turn to Google BigQuery to help. Dominic Woodman walks you through setting up and using BigQuery for making huge datasets manageable.
Complete courses to master SEO basics
Learn Keyword Research like the pros
Win rankings and traffic from your competition
Picture this: You discover that your site is ranking for a keyword you've been targeting. Cause for celebration, right? But what if that ranking page is irrelevant, wrong, or simply not the best choice? This frustrating situation is more common than you might think. Rand shows you how to cope when you find that your valuable queries are sending traffic to the wrong URLs in today's Whiteboard Friday.
Do website engagement rates like bounce rate, time on site, conversion rates, and dwell time impact organic rankings? Larry Kim examines the data and gives you some promising ways to boost website engagement rates.
Digital marketing should never feel like grunt work, but it's a rut we've all fallen into. The best remedy? Getting inspired. Snap out of it with the best SEO, client management, and marketing advice you can get, all in 140 characters or less.
While 301 redirects can yield significant value to your SEO efforts, it's important to remain vigilant about how they're used. Logan Ray details four common ways redirects can be negatively affecting your page load time and what you can do about them.
In the way websites once replaced phones, will intelligent personal assistants like Siri and Cortana soon replace websites? Tom Anthony examines 4 trends that are contributing to the IPA takeover and has some advice on how you can keep up.
You'd never change a URL without ensuring your 301s, links, sitemaps, and canonicals are in order... but a new client might have in the past. Here's what you can do to untangle any migration messes you've inherited and regain lost organic traffic.
What would you say if I told you that the average SEO at a big company has been waiting over six months for their highest priority technical change and doesn’t anticipate seeing it deployed for at least another six months? (40+% have been waiting over a year.)
Traditional keyword research focuses on discovery, leaving you with a pile of keywords and a lot of guesswork to prioritize them. What if there were a better way? I explore four metrics you can use to evolve your keyword research.
Rand outlines a straightforward and actionable 4-step process (including an array of tools to check out) for uncovering and prioritizing the best keywords for your SEO campaigns.
Voice search is poised to create a seismic shift in our industry. Purna Virji is here to answer three huge questions: who's using voice search, how is it different from text queries, and how can you prepare?