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.
Understanding search intent can be the secret ingredient that brings your content strategy from okay to outstanding. Here, Dawn discusses the different types of search intent, how to determine the best intent for given keywords, and how to optimize for search intent.
In this brand new Whiteboard Friday, Russ Jones discusses the theory behind various ranking factors, which have been with us since day one of search engine optimization, and gives us some improved definitions and vocabulary for those ranking factors to clear up our communication around them.
However you use GSC search performance data, you can turn it into a masterpiece that ensures you get the most out of your search performance metrics! To help you get started, Izzi Smith demonstrates some advanced and, frankly, exciting patterns that she's come across often while analyzing search performance data.
Title Tag SEO: If your websites are like Moz, they include a fair amount of extra boilerplate in the title tags: things like your brand name or repeating text that appears across multiple pages. Should you include these elements in your titles automatically?
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