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One of the most helpful aids in doing SEO is knowing what factors actually affect your rankings. It seems obvious on its face, but not everyone prioritizes their SEO work with the knowledge of how changes to a site and link profile actually affect the SERPs. It's important to at least have some heuristics to use in pursuit of higher rankings, and while it's not always easy, it is possi...
Sure, you know SEO like you know the back of your hand. You know how to linkbuild, and you know how to do keyword research. Of course you've got a lot of SEO knowledge - you've been watching these Whiteboard Fridays every week, right? Well, now it's time to get crackin'! Unfortunately, it feels like you never have enough time to get done all the things you know you should do. Maybe the...
Over the past couple of weeks Rand has been discussing the metrics available for link research and how to use them appropriately for different research situations. This week, he discusses some potential pitfalls in link...
We all know that, at first, it can be really difficult to decide what the most valuable link metrics are and when to use them. Last week, Rand outlined and defined a variety of metrics that are used to assess the respective values of domains, pages, and links between them. This week, he's back with the stunning conclusion: how to actually use these link metrics in your research and...
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For both personal knowledge and client satisfaction, it's really important to be able to track SEO progress quantitatively as well as qualitatively. In a two part series beginning today, Rand is going to go over the definitions of some of the most popular metrics available right now, as well as the best ways to use metrics in your SEO analysis.
On this week's Whiteboard Friday, two members of the SEOmoz Help Team will walk you through some solutions to 5 of the most common SEO problems we see on the Help Team. They'll also let you know how to change your profile picture.
At the end of February, Google announced that it was updating its search algorithm to serve higher-quality results to searchers. The update has since been dubbed the "Farmer Update" due to the algorithm's new bias against what Google considers "sites which are low-value add for user...
This week we are thrilled to have a special guest joining us for Whiteboard Friday: Duane Forrester, a top-of-the-line SEO who went over to the other side of the fence and now works at Bing's Webmaster Project as the Senior Project Manager. Duane discusses Webmaster Tools, metrics, and some important and exciting news about sitemap quality thresholds...
Linkbuilding: can't do it alone, can't not do it! In this week's Whiteboard Friday, Tom Critchlow, head of search marketing at Distilled, shows us some tips on how to reach out to webmasters and online marketers and more easily get the links we so badly want. All it takes is efficient contact-gathering, enthusiastic communication, adamant (but not overbearing) follow-up, and, well... maybe a little bit of hustle...
A little over a couple weeks ago, Search Engine Land broke the story that Bing uses clickstream data from Google searches as a ranking factor in its results. This week on Whiteboard Friday, Rand talks to the Director of Bing, Stefan Weitz, and discusses some of the implications of using clickstream data in Bing's search algorithm...
There are of lot of rad birds out there in the Twittersphere, and the more of them you can engage with, the better! This week, Jen Lopez, our community manager, talks about how we managed to increase our total Twitter follows by 250%...
International SEO is big business, and big business equals big websites. It can be really confusing when you have to cater to a target audience that is the entire world: you know that people from different countries and cultures are going to be looking for different things. We've had a lot of PRO members' Q&A questions come in about this issue lately, so this week, Rand helps us ...
This week Rand dives into a topic that many of you have asked about in our Pro Q&A, “Interlinking my websites, can I do it?” As an SEO you can almost guarantee that you will be asked; “Why can’t I just buy 100 domains and link them back to my website with amazing anchor text and then conquer the world?” Rand give some helpful hints on when it is appropriate to link to your other sites and when it’s not such a great idea. After watching, please feel free to voice your option on the subject and how you deal with interlinking your websites.
We'll do it live! For the first time ever, Whiteboard Friday will be broadcast live! Will Rand go crazy? Will the whiteboard fall from the wall? You'll have to tune in to find out!