Watch Out for Long Title Tags - An SEOmoz Case Study
We've been seeing some strange new issues with title tags displaying in the SERPs lately. After a bit of sleuthing, here's what we found out:
On-page SEO
On-page SEO is the practice of optimizing individual web pages in order to rank higher and earn more relevant traffic in search engines. On-page refers to both the content and HTML source code of a page that can be optimized, as opposed to off-page SEO which refers to links and other external signals.
For those new to on-page SEO, we highly recommend reading our On-Page Ranking Factors. On-page SEO has changed over the years, so it's important to keep up with the latest practices. Below are the latest post about on-page SEO from the Moz Blog, and we have chosen our favorite resources to help you along your journey.
On-Page SEO : The Beginner's Guide to SEO: Everything you need to get started to optimize your pages.
On-Site SEO Learning Center : Our free on-site SEO learning hub. Here, we’ve gathered our top resources in one place.
More than Keywords: 7 Concepts of Advanced On-Page SEO : On-page SEO starts with keywords, but Google uses tons of advanced methods to determine content relevance.
Illustrated Guide to Advanced On-Page Topic Targeting for SEO : A simple framework for on-page topic targeting that produces satisfying content and makes optimizing easy.
On-Page SEO for 2019 - Whiteboard Friday : No matter the year, this advice from SEO expert Britney Muller will help you to rank.
Most Recent Articles on On-page SEO
13 Questions (and Answers) About Google, Site Speed, and SEO
It's been two years since Google announced that page speed is a factor in its search ranking, and one of the most-asked questions I still receive is: How exactly do they do it? The second-most-asked question I hear is: How much do I need to care about this?
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Responsive Web Design: The Ultimate Guide for Online Marketers
As of February, the smartphone share in the United States has reached nearly 50%. 2012 is FINALLY "the year of mobile" and this means that you need to invest in a mobile user experience. Check your analytics — that mobile traffic share keeps growing!
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An Internal Link Juice Tool
One of the challenges we have as an agency is working with clients who want to link to absolutely everything from their global navigation. A business owner or marketing manager often has a hard time deciding what is more and less important -- to them it's all important! This results in a bloated navigation that detracts from the SEO value that those internal links pass through t...
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SEO Basics that Helped Double Organic Traffic and Sales Overnight
It's no secret that the world of SEO is moving towards the social arena. Google's latest round of algorithm updates in March sent clear signals of this and in their focus of Google+. But while many big brands still...
Perfecting On-Page Optimization for Ecommerce Websites
Back in 2009 (was it really that long ago?!) Rand wrote a post titled Perfecting Keyword Targeting and On-Page Optimization which is one of the most popular blog posts on SEOmoz. It is still referenced as much today as it was back in 2009. The core principles haven't changed that much, b...
A One-Stop SEO Bookmarklet to Quickly Review On-Site SEO
Shortly before Tom Critchlow's excellent post on using Javascript bookmarklets to help make us more efficient in our jobs as SEOs I had begun work on a bookmarklet that lets me review a variety of on- and ...
Rel Canonical on Affiliate and Partner Links
The canonical link element has been around for nearly 3 years. Apart from protecting your website from duplicate content, it has the power to take advantage of otherwise hard to get links. I can’t get my head around why there are so many sites with affiliate and partner programs, missing out on their most valuable links.
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Schema.org - Why You're Behind if You're Not Using It...
If someone told you that there was a quick and easy way that many of you could improve your SERP CTR for minimal effort, you’d all stop in your tracks and give them full attention. Yet, Schema.org and rich snippets are still horribly under-utilized. Since Google (and Bing!) ...
An SEO Guide to Adsense, Ads and Placement
SEOs don't talk about advertising much, perhaps because it's the conceptual opposite of “great content.” The truth is, advertising is the gasoline that runs much of the web. Without ad revenue, great sites we love like Search Engine Land, Smashing Magazine, and even Wired might...
4 Graphics to Help Illustrate On-Page SEO
For many SEO professionals, on-page optimization is back to basics. But sadly, there seem to be a lot of us who still make some very basic mistakes. In this post, I'll try to add on to my previous writing on perfecting on-page optimization by sharing some visuals that can hopefully help to hammer key points of the practice home.
Should I Change My URLs for SEO?
Are you constantly fine-tuning your URLs for SEO? Here's 5 scenarios where you might need a change, and a lot of reasons you might not.
Improving Page Speed with Amazon Web Services - A Beginner's Guide
After the fantastic tips in edbaxter's post on Optimizing Page Speed, I decided it was time for a beginner's guide on one of the most effective methods to increase speed that was only mentioned in that post: a Content Delivery Network (CDN). The purpose of a CDN is to put your website's static or unchanging files on very fast servers all over the world, so that requests to view the content by visitors to your site have the shorter possible trip to get your data. An example of these static files are images, css, and javascript files.
SEO for the iPad
When the iPad first came out, like many people, I didn't really get it. My initial thoughts were something along the lines of "Steve... what the hell?! You've produced a giant iPod and are somehow trying to claim its some sort of brilliant new product." I resolved never to buy one, considering it simply a folly for overly wealthy businessmen or an iPod designed for the visually impaired.