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Search Intent and the Organic Funnel : Tom reveals how understanding search intent within the organic funnel can transform your keyword research strategy and drive better results.
The Value of SEO Beyond Traffic and Leads : Discover why SEO should be viewed as your website's foundation rather than a set-and-forget tactic, and learn to communicate its full business impact.
Top SEO Tips for 2024 : Crystal shares essential strategies for navigating SEO in an AI-driven landscape, helping you adapt and thrive in this transformative year.
Does Google treat text kept behind "read more" links with the same importance as non-hidden text? The short answer is "no," but there's more nuance to it than that. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand explains just how the search engine giant weighs text hidden from view using CSS and JavaScript.
Rankings fluctuations can be panic-inducing, but they happen to everyone. In this Whiteboard Friday, Rand discusses why ranking fluctuations occur, the importance of keeping your cool during those darker moments, and how to identify when you should actually be concerned.
Learn how to analyze, optimize, and structure your internal links (and put the kibosh on out-of-date tactics) in this Whiteboard Friday.
A blog is only as effective as its posts. In this Whiteboard Friday, Rand offers six paths you can take to make sure your posts resonate with your audiences.
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Optimizing your images for ranking in Google Image Search and the Image Pack is not a side of SEO to be ignored. In this Whiteboard Friday, Rand explains just about everything you'd want to ask about image search SEO, from foundations to best practices.
This week we're chatting about pop-ups, overlays, modals, interstitials, etc. They have specific kinds of interactions with SEO. In addition to Google's guidelines around them, they also change how people interact with your site, which can adversely or positively affect you accomplishing your goals, SEO and otherwise.
Net neutrality is a hot-button issue lately, and whether it's upheld or not could have real ramifications for the online marketing industry. In this Whiteboard Friday, Rand covers the potential consequences and fallout of losing net neutrality. Be sure to join the ensuing discussion in the comments!
Hovering your finger over the big red "launch" button for your new website? Hold off for just a second. From a keyword-to-URL content map to sweeping for crawl errors to setting up proper tracking, today's Whiteboard Friday covers 5 boxes you need to check off before finally setting your site live.
By comparing top pages data from multiple sources against one another, you can get some really cool, powerful advanced SEO opportunities in your content and keyword targeting. Rand explains how in this Whiteboard Friday.
You know SEO is important, but you barely have time for lunch, much less keyword research. In this Whiteboard Friday, Rand covers a minimum viable SEO strategy to give those with limited time a plan forward.
Being adaptive, collaborative, and iterative are necessary skills when we live in a world where Google can pull the rug out from under us at a moment's notice. In this Whiteboard Friday, guest host Jim Ewel describes the agile marketing process and why you ought to adopt it sooner rather than later.
Should you rank one site higher in a single position frequently, or own more of the SERP real estate consistently with multiple domains? In this Whiteboard Friday, Rand presents 4 questions you should ask to determine whether this strategy could work for you.
Thinking of publishing an expert roundup? Don't—there's a better way. In this Whiteboard Friday, Rand explains why expert roundups aren't the best use of your time and effort, and how to pivot your strategy to create similar content that'll make the juice worth the squeeze.
Reaching the perfect audience is priceless, but hyperlocal keyword research is frustrating. In this Whiteboard Friday, Rand shares how to find powerful, laser-focused keywords to bring you *exactly* the customers you're looking for.