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.
There's a lot of hype and misinformation about the new Google algorithm update. What actually is BERT, how does it work, and why does it matter to our work as SEOs? Join our own machine learning and natural language processing expert Britney Muller as she breaks down exactly what BERT is and what it means for the search industry.
Imagine it: the worst has happened, and a code deploy wipes your site from Google's index. What do you do? Take notes on this real-life hard lesson when their search presence was cut by 1/3 due to exactly that.
A/B testing your SEO changes can bring you a competitive edge and dodge the bullet of negative changes that could lower your traffic. In this Whiteboard Friday, Emily Potter shares why A/B testing your changes is important and how to develop a hypothesis, what goes into collecting and analyzing the data, and how to draw your conclusions.
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Dig into the SEO community's biggest questions when it comes to featured snippets. Plus, snag your free download of the Featured Snippets Cheat Sheet for strategic tips and reminders on how to win snippets of your own!
People Also Ask boxes represent growing opportunity in the SERPs, but they're not the most straightforward SERP feature around. Learn all about PAAs and how you can start optimizing for them today.
We A/B tested adding rel="ugc" to our Moz Blog comment links using Distilled's optimization delivery network (ODN). Here's what we found — and what we're thinking about testing next.
Featured snippets are still the best way to take up primo SERP real estate, and they seem to be changing all the time. Today, Britney Muller shares the results of the latest Moz research into featured snippet trends and data, plus some fantastic tips and tricks for winning your own.
Content marketing isn't easy when your industry's topics are dry. Here are the eight tactics one digital marketer used to triple blog growth for an e-commerce and manufacturing company in two years.
It's not always possible for your site to be competitive in the SERPs on its own. Luckily, Ryan Stewart is here to share six ways to grow organic traffic outside of hitting those top-ranking positions yourself.
Images are driving more traffic than ever before. What are some tools you can leverage to better optimize your image SEO and capitalize on the opportunity?
EAT — also known as Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness — is a big deal when it comes to Google's algorithms. But what exactly does this acronym entail, and why does it matter to your everyday work? In this bite-sized version of her full MozCon 2019 presentation, Marie Haynes describes exactly what E-A-T means and how it could have a make-or-break effect on your site.
GSC is an imperfect tool, but it gives SEOs the best information we have to understand an individual site's click performance in the SERPs.
Though an SEO audit is essentially a checklist, it's important to both customize your approach and prioritize your fixes to be efficient and effective with your time and effort. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Kameron Jenkins shares a better way of improving your site.