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Below is virtually every useful tid bit I’ve learned about content marketing and producing shareable content. To make things digestible, I’ve categorised the tips into five categories: ideation, strategy, execution, distribution, and measurement.
For a small business on a tight budget, a mobile strategy may seem like a costly extra. This post covers why SMEs should care about mobile, and what they can do about it (even on a small-business budget). This is a tactics- and resource-heavy post, designed to provide tools to begin working right away on the process of building a mobile-friendly web presence.
One of the most helpful approaches to learning about and understanding a client's website I've found involves actually crawling a site, and learning about the structures of its URLs and how they are connected to each other. I was recently invited to try a beta test for a cloud-based crawler that can handle extremely large websites. I accepted the offer because it appeared that the tool might be useful in campaigns where the crawling tools I'm presently using might not be as effective.
A recent trend shows Google giving increasing preference to the freshest content in the SERPs. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand explains how to take advantage of that preference in ways that don't risk penalties.
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Rumors and theories about Yelp's review filter have led many people astray, thinking that filtered reviews are always fraudulent or otherwise useless. Moz's director of local search strategy debunks those theories with a summary of what's actually happening.
Many tout link building as one of the hardest parts of the SEO process. Sure, with spammed to death tactics not being valued any longer (thanks to Panda and Penguin) and seemingly low hanging fruit obliterated I could see some thinking link building is hardest. But after years of manual link building, strategy and analysis as well as training link builders, I’ve come to the conclusion that many of us can build good links when we try hard enough. It requires diligence, outside-the-box thinking, effort and some marketing chops. Oh and the finely honed ability to find just about anything on the internet.
One day I decided to scrape all the publicly available profile data from SEOmoz's active user base and provide a little bit of ultra transparency. Check out what I found!
If you're disappointed because the Google Keyword Tool was removed from your arsenals of keyword research tools, don't worry, because the new keyword planner has some features that I know you will love.
Every 2 years, Moz surveys over 100 top industry professionals to compile our biennial Search Engine Ranking Factors. For 2013 we’ve supplemented the survey with real-world correlation data from scientifically examining of over 17,000 keyword search results. We've released some of the 2013 data previously, but not the full set until now. So with great pleasure, I present the complete results of this year's survey and correlation data.
There are many apparent "moments of truth" in a sales cycle—those important moments when customers decide to take action. As SEO blends more and more into experience design, content marketing, and social networks, one moment becomes increasingly important: the ultimate moment of truth.
What most people don’t understand is that Penguin Penalties can be prevented. With the right information, you NEVER have to suffer from these terrible penalties that take away between 20% and 60% of your site’s traffic. In this guide, I am going to give you suggestions for to protect your site from Penguin Penalties, and keep your site ranking well in Google.
Have you ever wondered why bloggers didn’t reply to your last outreach email? Why they refused to link to your shiny new infographic, or what they really think about SEOs? This post walks through the results from a survey of bloggers, offering a window into their world.
To subdomain or not to subdomain, that is the question. Since my first days in SEO back in 2004, the subfolder vs. subdomain debate has echoed through nearly every site architecture discussion in which I have participated. This post walks through the logistics of a study to provide some resolution.
In order to make sure we're constantly creating value for our customers, our focus should center on goals instead of tools. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Mackenzie Fogelson walks us through her five-step process for ensuring that value comes naturally.