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Google has officially launched their latest feature, in-depth articles. We pulled some preliminary data on how widespread in-depth articles are since launch, what kind of queries they appear on, and which sites are getting the most out of them.
You can do your own Watergate-style investigation, learning the secrets of your competitors' marketing strategies by scrutinizing their backlinks. Pivot tables in Excel can help you make sense of all that data, and this post will show you how.
As someone who is on both sides of guest posting, requester and requestee, I’ve seen my fair share of great guest post requests and I’ve seen some truly awful ones. The truly appalling requests get thrown out right away. Identifying these types of posts is pretty easy, so easy that I can scan through an email and usually label it trash within a few seconds. Here are six things to avoid when sending out guest posts requests if you don't want your request landing in the trash:
Implementing Google Analytics is fairly simple, but most people don't take full advantage of what it offers. With custom segments, marketers can divide their audiences into smaller sets of data, learning how best to earn the business of each group.
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Web marketers increasingly face a fork in the road. Down one path is traditional link building, down the other is the broader world of content marketing. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand helps us figure out which path is right for us.
Google's Knowledge Graph has exploded over the past year, and it's driving more and more direct answers in organic results. I explore 101 answers boxes, and demonstrate how these are intimately connected to the Knowledge Graph.
The full results of this year's Local Search Ranking Factors survey are in! Moz's director of local search strategy, David Mihm, walks us through some of the highlights and links to the full results.
Inspired by Troy’s work, I created my own version of an SEO bookmarklet. The bookmarklet is broken down in three sections: Overall SEO, Open Graph Metadata for Facebook and Twitter Metadata for Twitter Cards.
Brand storytelling offers us a way to connect with our audiences in truly memorable ways by appealing to their emotions. People have been telling stories for as long as they've been around, and with a few examples, we see how ancient wisdom can be applied to modern tactics.
As the "O" in SEO has broadened in scope, the most effective elements of on-page optimization have changed. While there is arguably no "perfectly optimized page," this update to a 2009 post provides a comprehensive guide to steer you in the right direction.
If you didn't already know (brace yourself!), the tried and true AdWords Keyword Tool is quietly being retired in favor of a shiny new tool, the "Keyword Planner." While most people seem to be distracted by the new features that the Keyword Planner is offering (and a few of them are great), no one seems to care about the INCREDIBLY HUGE HOLE that will be left after the old Keyword Tool is gone:
White-hat tactics are more important than ever, but any good SEO knows they take time. Here are five techniques to convince impatient clients that your hard work will eventually pay off.
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I don't think there's enough talk about how to create successful content strategy. How do you get the user in with your content and flow them through your system and so today, that's exactly what we're going to talk about or at least touch on. This is all conceptual, these aren't going to be tactics. If you're looking for tactics I would love to help you out, comment down there with what you're looking for and I will give you my input.
CAPTCHAs are billed as easy for humans and hard for robots, but the reality is that they detract from the user experience and turn away conversions. It's time we gave them up.