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.
The world is going mobile, and those apps ahead of the curve in ASO and app indexing trends will be those that nab market share from traditionally web-dominated search results. Ashley Sefferman will help you get ahead of the pack with these 10 awesome tips to check off your app optimization list.
Back in February, we explored balancing keyword targeting with concept targeting. This time around we're looking at using your knowledge of related topics and semantic connections in your on-page SEO processes. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand talks about applying those ideas in ways that will boost your ranking potential and inform your keyword research.
SEO is changing. We can no longer rely on keyword targeting alone to optimize our content. Moz Pro now has a tool to make understanding and targeting topics on the SERPs a whole lot easier.
"If content is king, then the user is queen, and she rules the universe." Are you focusing too much on the content, rather than the user? In his last post as a Mozzer, Cyrus Shepard offers his single greatest SEO tip for improving your web traffic.
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The goal I am hoping to achieve with this post is to provide some actionable research tips for finding content ideas that you can use for your campaigns. My agency IMA Interactive provides SEO services for the professional services industry, so it was my original intention to help those with the same type of clients. But, I am happy if I can help any...
Google is increasingly relying on machine learning and artificial intelligence, making ranking factors harder to understand, less predictable, and less uniform across keywords. It's becoming such a complex system, that we often can't really know how a change will affect our own site until we roll it out. In this environment, we'll need to use split-testing more and more.
Last week, Google made the unprecedented move of releasing the entire Search Quality Rater’s Guidelines. Explore key insights from this 160-page document that details just what they're looking for in a webpage.
When it comes to optimizing your content via on-page SEO, diminishing returns might enter the picture sooner than you think.
While making certain to optimize your content for search, don't forget about optimizing your images as well.
If you want to rank as well as you possibly can, unblocking JavaScript and CSS is one of the easiest SEO changes you can make—especially for those with a significant amount of mobile traffic. Jennifer Slegg shares the warning letter many SEOs and webmasters received from Google about this, and goes over the hows and whys of unblocking JS and CSS files on your site.
The author's small test seems to confirm Google's affinity for fresh content. You might consider a similar experiment for your site.
If you're targeting a certain keyword, knowing where and how often to use that keyword in the various elements of your page is essential. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand offers his recommendation.
Page tags like rel=canonical and noindex are powerful, but each has limitations. In some cases, Ajax-based solutions are a better solution.