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

How Google May Analyze and Evaluate the Quality, Value, & Rank-Worthiness of Your Content
Rand Fishkin

How Google May Analyze and Evaluate the Quality, Value, & Rank-Worthiness of Your Content

Your content has quality links and your keyword targeting is an SEO's dream. Yet for some mysterious reason, that content still isn't ranking. What's missing? In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand explains some of the advanced tactics Google may be using to evaluate and analyze your content and what you should be looking out for to help resolve your ranking woes.

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Using Related Topics and Semantically Connected Keywords in Your SEO
Rand Fishkin

Using Related Topics and Semantically Connected Keywords in Your SEO

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.

Here’s How Meaningful Content Updates Increased Traffic by 57%
Ryan Purtill

Here’s How Meaningful Content Updates Increased Traffic by 57%

It’s no big secret that dwell time has grown as a vital SEO metric for content publishers across a wide spectrum of industries. For our site, one of the largest consumer health websites in the world, time on page is a top priority.In fact, we have a dedicated multi-department engagement team who is constantly testing and tweaking design, content...

Here’s How to Find Successful Content Ideas for Your Small Business
Wells Yu

Here’s How to Find Successful Content Ideas for Your Small Business

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...

SEO Split-Testing: How to A/B Test Changes for Google
Will Critchlow

SEO Split-Testing: How to A/B Test Changes for Google

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.