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With Google getting better and better at recognizing the true relevancy of pages, we can't stay focused on keywords. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand explains how focusing on the right topics and being relevant to the right people can drive more valuable traffic than simply ranking for keywords.
Over the past few weeks, while looking into how the Knowledge Graph pulls data for certain sources, I have made a few general observations and have been tracking what, if any, impact certain practices have on the display of information panels.
How will Google evolve after the acquisition of Wavii, Behav.io, PostRank, Grapple, and machine learning and neural computing technologies? Gianluca Fiorelli paints a picture of Google in 2014, based on entity search, semantic, and über-personalization, covering how Google's recent acquisitions will interact with one another in order to shape our search experience.
We've all become accustomed to seeing (not provided) instead of organic keywords, but many marketers are still wondering what to do without that data. Here are five tactics that'll get you back on track.
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So you write a kick-ass article and publish it on a reputable blog. Surely, a post on [insert famous blog here] would send an avalanche of new visitors/subscribers/leads your way. Except that it doesn’t. What went wrong?
Last month, 766 of our readers took a few minutes to tell us what they thought of the Moz Blog. We were absolutely blown away by the quality of the feedback we got, and we're excited to share what we learned with all of you.
Building high-profile links from media sources isn't that difficult when you know how to approach journalists with a good story.
It's easy to customize the geolocation settings -- once or twice. However, these steps can be long and fastidious for results that might be unreliable, mainly if our prime concern is to collect data for filtering, comparing and verifying rankings based on the user's geographic location or when providing clients with direct links to different versions of SERPs from city based location.
Measuring the performance of your mobile apps is every bit as important as measuring your web properties. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Adam Singer, Google's analytics advocate, walks us through some of the most important pieces to watch.
Late last year, a swath of new TLDs went on sale for a cool $185K each. What you might not know is that many of those TLDs are about to be resold as publicly available domains. Here's what you need to know about the coming domain gold rush.
Ever since Google+ integrated with YouTube comments back in September, there has been a string of crude complaints with very few positive voices found in the middle. User opinions (along with the videos and content to match) have gone viral and make us all stop and think. Sure, we might have our own opinions, but is there anything we can learn from this unique situation? People have been fighting authority since the beginning of time, but now that search and social are in the picture, the spotlight is on the importance of viral content.
Content is king because it ties into all the other areas of inbound marketing. By simply focusing on content, you can improve your entire inbound strategy. I'll show you how it worked for me.
I wanted to take a big step back and analyse the cumulative effects of Google's updates. To do that, I asked four questions and analysed a year of MozCast data to find the answers.