The industry's top wizards, doctors, and other experts offer their best advice, research, how-tos, and insights—all in the name of helping you level-up your SEO and online marketing skills.
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.
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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.
There is a reason why SEOs/SEMs have a terrible reputation. We suck! Well, at least 90% of us do. Even worse than the fact that there are thousands of amateurs playing at being search marketers is the fact that some frauds know just enough jargon to swindle thousands of companies out of millions of dollars every year. It’s difficult enough to get good clients that want to work with you and are that are willing to put in the time and effort into growing their business without then having to convince them that you are not going to rip them off like the last company did. It’s infuriating. So how can business owners who are unfamiliar with search marketing tell if the consultant they’re considering/using sucks? I’m so glad you asked!
Thought leadership and expertise is key to any digital marketing strategy's success. In today's post, learn the role and importance of subject matter experts in your organization, and give consumers of your content a chance to learn from the best.
Web Design Agencies are great at making beautiful websites, but can they do SEO too? We analyzed award-winning website designs throughout the world to see how SEO friendly they were. We also compared these websites to leading SEO Agency websites to see how they were design wise. We noticed that most SEO agencies have great rankings, but poor designs and we noticed that web design agencies have beautiful websites but poor SEO.
Google has long stated website performance will impact search ranking, but what exactly does this mean? In this article, Zoompf researches over 40 different speed metrics to determine the most impactful performance changes you can make to your website to improve search ranking.
Brilliant content is valuable. There's no question there. Rand told us this back in 2006 and the landscape for generating ideas has only grown since. Unfortunately, the more content we create, the more important it is for OUR content to rise to the top.