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.
When people search for our brands, they're often looking for something specific, and it's on us to make sure they can find it as easily as possible. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand explains four steps we can take to be sure we're sending searchers in the right direction.
Expectations of returns can be high for SEO work, despite the fact that it can take several months to really get best practices ingrained. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand shows us four ways to mitigate the gap between expectations and effort.
We're often hearing about how mobile search volume is catching up to (or even overtaking) desktop search volume, so what do we do? The answer is more nuanced than you might think, and in today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand shows us a few ways forward.
Enough has changed about keyword targeting that it's high time we offered a refresher. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand lays out best practices for targeting, and clears the air about density and cannibalization in today's world of search.
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Working as an agency marketer is tough. I did it for a bit over two years and learned a lot of lessons. Along the way and since I have reflected about what would make me more successful as an agency marketer, and now that I am in-house at HotPads.com, I've come up with five things I wish I had known as an agency marketer. Never fear though, as there are some tidbits in there for the in-house crew as well!
The value of links in Google's algorithm has been the subject of much debate. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand clarifies two of the most compelling arguments and offers SEOs his advice on how to treat links as we move forward.
Content is certainly important, but we have to remember all the other tools we have for improving our rankings. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand covers six great methods that don't even involve content marketing.
Customers are people, not transactions, and we should all treat them accordingly. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand details the problem and what we can do to solve it.
Some marketers, especially those working with e-commerce sites, are forced to deal with content like product descriptions and reviews; things that aren't unique. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand offers tips for those marketers to avoid being penalized for their work.
Influencers can afford marketers the ability to reach huge audiences they wouldn't otherwise have been able to, but they're very picky about what they choose to share. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand shares a simple equation to help you win them over.
It takes quite a bit of effort to create genuinely high-quality guest posts, and many marketers are tempted to find ways to automate the process. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand clears up some misconceptions that can lead marketers down that slippery slope.
We've all had clients (or bosses, etc.) who were tough to please or asked what seemed like too much of us. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Wil Reynolds offers up a boatload of techniques and tools to win their favor and support without lots of resources.
As marketers and search engines continue to get better at understanding what people are looking for, the purpose of a site's homepage has shifted. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand details some of those shifts and shows us what a truly effective homepage looks like today.
Search engines are increasingly referring to random affinities — links between seemingly unrelated concepts — to serve you the most interesting and relevant results. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Ian Lurie shows us how we can use those hidden relationships to our advantage.