Whiteboard Friday

Howdy Moz fans! Welcome to Whiteboard Friday, the longest-running and most popular SEO video series. Featuring industry experts as guest hosts who share their hands-on SEO experience working with agencies, businesses, and consultancies. Each weekly episode delivers actionable SEO training to help you advance your career and master digital marketing. 

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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.

Most Recent Articles on Whiteboard Friday

Five Ways To Use Your Social Profiles For SEO
Aaron Wheeler

Five Ways To Use Your Social Profiles For SEO

Social media is becoming more and more important as the days go by; how else would I get my tri-weekly fix of XKCD delivered to me? Many people know about the marketing benefits from social media profiles, but sites like Facebook and Twitter can make a significant difference in your SEO campaign, too! This week, Rand shows us five great ideas for using these sites to help with your SEO strategy.

Video SEO Basics
Aaron Wheeler

Video SEO Basics

Video SEO isn't something we always think about when optimizing, but we really should. In this week's Whiteboard Friday, Danny Dover reviews some of the video SEO basics that every SEO should know about. After all, it's a largely untapped market, unlike the Canadian maple tree market. Which is very tapped.

Optimizing SEO Resources
Aaron Wheeler

Optimizing SEO Resources

Hello everybody! My name is Aaron Wheeler and one of my new tasks in the office will be video production so you may end up seeing my gob around the blog every once in a while. This week, our very own Danny Dover discusses some important and scalable ways to optimize your SEO resources. We all know that pickins' can be slim when it comes to many companies' budgets for SEO, so why not make the best of what you've got?

Discussing LDA and SEO
Danny Dover

Discussing LDA and SEO

In this week's Whiteboard Friday Rand Fishkin and Ben Hendrickson discuss LDA (Latent Dirichlet Allocation) and SEO (Search Engine Optimization). There has been a lot of discussion about the relationship between these two topics lately and this video answers many of the questions people in the community have been asking. It is comprehensive (25 minutes) and uses many easy to understand di...

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Answering Hard SEO Questions
Danny Dover

Answering Hard SEO Questions

In this week's Whiteboard Friday, Danny Dover tries to answer some of the hard questions in SEO. "If you are such a good SEO, why don't you rank number one for the keyword, SEO?" "How can you provide advice on SEO if you don't work for a search engine?" The answers to these two and some more doozies are below. ...

Whiteboard Friday - The Biggest SEO Mistakes SEOmoz Has Ever Made
Danny Dover

Whiteboard Friday - The Biggest SEO Mistakes SEOmoz Has Ever Made

This week's Whiteboard Friday features the return of Rand (woo hoo!) and his self declared biggest SEO mistakes. We screw up a lot here at SEOmoz (hell, they hired me), so we feel it is only appropriate to take this opportunity to share what we have learned in an effort to prevent you from making our mistakes. SEO is complicated, the best we can do is practice, work hard and compare notes.

Whiteboard Friday - Spring Break and Strike Fighters
Darren Slatten

Whiteboard Friday - Spring Break and Strike Fighters

Hey everyone. I've been getting a ton of emails lately from SEOmoz members (and Rebecca) who keep telling me that I should post YOUmoz entries more often. They tell me that they miss my unique writing style, my sense of humor, and above all, my world's best SEO advice. So even though I'm very busy playing with Legos and growing a beard, I suppose I can work a YOUmoz post into my hectic schedule. But before I begin, I just want to make one thing perfectly clear: No one really emailed me--I just made all that up, because I couldn't think of a better introductory paragraph. Still with me? Good.