Howdy Mozzers! Welcome to Whiteboard Friday.
The most famous video series in all of SEO, Rand Fishkin started filming this series when Moz was a very young company that didn't even sell software. Since then, it's grown to millions of views and the videos have helped trained thousands of SEOs.
We've included some of our favorite episodes here, and find the latest below. Enjoy, and best of luck with your SEO!
6 Ways ChatGPT Can Improve Your SEO : From on-page optimizations to technical SEO, AI can do more than create content. Supercharge your organic traffic with these tips from Moz’s SEO Director.
How to Win Potential Consumers with Customer Journey Mapping on Google : Learn about your potential customers and their conversations with Google by using the customer journey mapping method to provide them with the best content.
Crawled — Currently Not Indexed: A Coverage Status Guide : Understand the mysterious “Crawled — currently not indexed” status in the Index Coverage report in Google Search Console.
For marketers, Reddit is more than a tool to while away your lunch break. It's a huge, thriving forum with subreddits devoted to almost any topic you can imagine — and exciting new content ideas lurk within threads, just waiting to be discovered.
Python is a programming language that can help you uncover incredible SEO insights and save you time by automating time-consuming tasks. But for those who haven't explored this side of search, it can be intimidating. Britney Muller and a true python expert offer an intro into a helpful tool that's worth your time to learn.
New year, new you — when it comes to SEO reporting, at least! We're kicking off 2020 with a comprehensive yet gloriously simple recipe from Cyrus Shepard for creating truly effective SEO reports. From tying KPIs to business metrics to delivering bad news effectively, your reports have never looked so good.
What are the benefits of transcribing your podcasts and what's the best way to go about getting them on your site? Niki Mosier breaks it down into 8 easy steps in this week's episode of Whiteboard Friday.
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Clean, useful Google Analytics data is all-important — both for you, and for the clients and colleagues that will be working on the site in the future. Ruth Burr Reedy shares her absolute best tips for getting your Analytics data accurate, consistent, and future-proof in this week's Whiteboard Friday.
Turning your clients into SEO allies is key for effective reporting and retention. But how do you do it? To complement our just-released Mini Guide to SEO Reporting, we're bringing back a fan favorite Whiteboard Friday!
How does Google decide what goes into the local pack? In this week's Whiteboard Friday, renowned local SEO expert Mary Bowling lays out the three factors that drive Google's local algorithm in a simple and concise way anyone can understand.
What are "fraggles" in SEO and how do they relate to mobile-first indexing, entities, the Knowledge Graph, and your day-to-day work? Cindy Krum explains it all in this edition of Whiteboard Friday.
Writing content that is easier for Google, a robot, to understand can actually make you a better writer and help you write better content for humans. Learn about how Google uses NLP (natural language processing) to truly understand content, and how you can harness that knowledge to better optimize what you write for people and bots alike.
Ross Simmonds reveals how to ramp up distribution so that your content resources — be they blog posts, videos, whitepapers, or more — are reaching the right people on the right channel at the right time.
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.
Have you ever wanted to break into the podcast or video series scene, but get stuck at the ideation phase? Join Phil Nottingham as he explores how we can both uncover great ideas for a series and follow through on them in this Whiteboard Friday.
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.
Machine learning is only growing in importance for anyone working in the digital world, but it can often feel like an inaccessible subject. It doesn't have to be — and you don't have to miss out on the competitive edge it can give you when it comes to SEO task automation.