9 Experts and a Summary: What Makes an Ideal SEO Employee?
What do the best and brightest SEOs in the US and the UK look for when they are hiring? Read on to find out. Take note: Their answers may surprise you.
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Mobile App Marketing, App Retention, and Building Real Customer Relationships
Your customers are using mobile devices more than ever. Someone who downloads your app, though, isn't much help if they uninstall it shortly thereafter. It's time for a focus on mobile retention.
5 Data Insights into the Headlines Readers Click
A new Conductor study dove into just what it is about headlines that really resonates with readers: a clear indication of what they can take away from the articles. In this post, Conductor's director of research details how they arrived at that conclusion.
How To Use Twitter Data for Really Targeted Outreach
At this year's MozCon, I explained that with the help of a few tools, you can leverage Twitter and Excel to give you a detailed breakdown of the content your target audience is sharing. Here's how.
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How to Grow: 21 Tactics to Acquire Customers
Startups don't often have large marketing budgets, but that shouldn't stand in the way of their growth. After working at four of them, I've compiled a list of tactics that can expedite growth in creative ways.
7 Reasons to Remove "Link Building" from Our Vocabulary
It may seem insane to many in the industry to speak of discarding "link building" as an action, goal, or job description; but after years of consulting, dozens of penalty-related questions in Moz’s Q&A, and careful consideration, I am convinced that the idea of "building links" has been heartbreakingly detrimental to our industry and many site owners. I will argue that everyone — marketers and SEOs included — would be better off if we stopped talking about building links altogether.
Why You Might Be Losing Rankings to Pages with Fewer Links, Worse Targeting, and Poor Content
Focusing on links, targeting, and great content can vastly improve your search rankings, so why do we sometimes see Google favoring pages that lack those qualities? In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand walks through several possible explanations.
How Does Google Count Local Results?
Blended results blurred the line between organic and local SEO. I share a hack to tell how Google counts organic results in a blended SERP, and how understanding how the two algorithms overlap can help you improve both your local and organic strategy.
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Link Building Survey 2013 - The Results [INFOGRAPHIC]
Many of us faced a challenging 2012, and 2013 has been no different. We created a survey to really capture the current market sentiment and better understand how industry peers are faring. This post walks you through the infographic we created from the results.
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2013 Search Engine Ranking Factors
The results are in! Come check out Moz's 2013 Ranking Factors as Matt Peters presents a preview of the results from the survey and correlation study.
SEO Ranking Factor #1 is Satisfaction
Search engines call it different things, but we know they both measure and reward satisfaction in very significant ways. In fact, I highly suspect satisfaction is one of Google's most important metrics used to judge the performance of its own search results. Knowing how this works can help our own SEO.
Changes and Trends in Social Media in 2013 - It's Evolving Every Day!
It's no surprise that Social Media is constantly changing and growing to match new technology trends. This post outlines some of the changes we've seen to the major social networks this year.
An Evergreen Content Case Study
In 2012, I decided to undertake an evergreen content experiment. I created a piece of content that I planned to update regularly over an extended period of time. The aim was to see if putting ongoing effort into one page on a website would prove more efficient than spending time planning and creating multiple pieces of fresh content. This is what I found.
Domain Migrations: Surviving the "Perfect Storm" of Site Changes
Last week, I held a Mozinar talking about the SEO steps involved in transitioning from SEOmoz.org to Moz.com, and sharing some of the results we got. We got some great questions on the Mozinar, and I wanted a chance to answer some more of them as well as expand on some points that didn’t fit into the Mozinar.