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In today’s episode, Crystal discusses how featured snippets show up in several different parts of the SERP, giving you lots of good value for organic reach, and how to claim those opportunities for your existing content.
Today, we’ll be learning more about customer preferences by age group surrounding local business reviews, taking a deeper dive into some of the data from The Impact of Local Business Reviews on Consumer Behavior | SEO Industry Report.
The community flywheel is an approach that easily marries brand and performance marketing efforts. You don’t have to be a big-name brand to see results from this strategy. No matter how niche your audience is, by leveraging your digital assets, you can cultivate an inviting community space. The key to success is building a community you own.
As we enter 2023, several businesses are being squeezed because of rising costs. Customers are simultaneously struggling to cope with their living costs, which in turn affects companies and what products they can sell, and agencies and in-house teams come under more pressure to get more results, with limited budgets. In today’s Whiteboard Friday, Paddy walks through a few tactics to get more from less when it comes to your link building efforts.
In mid-October, we noticed a drop in this type of video result, and that drop became dramatic by late-October. Did Google remove these video results or was our system broken? As it turns out, neither — video results have split into at least three distinct types (depending on how you count).
Ranking on Google is not ranking in a vacuum. Ranking is outranking your competitors. When you've got very limited space on the first page of the SERPs, you need to be doing better than your competitors. One way to achieve this? Competitive gap analysis.
In July of this year, Moz published a report analyzing an element of Google’s local results we termed “local pack headers”. About a month after publication, members of the local SEO community began noticing that the extraordinary diversity of headings we had captured had suddenly diminished. Today, Miriam presents a quick follow-up to the manual portion of our earlier study in an effort to quantify and illustrate this abrupt alteration.
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By leaving JavaScript unoptimized, you risk your content not getting crawled and indexed by Google. And in the e-commerce industry, that translates to losing significant revenue, because products are impossible to find via search engines. In this article, Justyna demonstrates how to avoid some of the most common mistakes e-commerce sites make when implementing JavaScript.
With recent shake-ups to the Google algorithm, Lily Ray joins us for this week’s episode to walk you through three of the most important search engine updates that can affect your SEO strategies.
Following our publication of The Impact of Local Business Reviews on Consumer Behavior, Miriam distills the dominant traits, characteristics, and behaviors shown by reviewers and business owners. These insights are meant to help you envision both the public and practices in an approachable manner, and enable you to form a useful mental picture of who and what you’re working with when it comes to growing and managing your reputation.
Google algorithm updates seem to come in two main flavors. There are very specific updates, like the Page Experience Update, which tend to be announced well in advance, provide detailed information on how the ranking factor will work, and eventually arrive as a slight anti-climax. This post is about the other flavor: the updates announced when they're happening or have already happened with vague guidance. The kind that can have cataclysmic results for affected sites.
Typically, when SEOs think about on-page optimizations, they’re thinking about core places to include their target keywords within their content. But how can you take your on-page optimizations to the next level and get beyond some of those basic tactics? In today’s episode of Whiteboard Friday, Chris Long shows you how.
We’re thrilled to announce Moz’s first large-scale survey on the habits of local business review readers, review writers and successful owner responses. Read our free report today for dozens of actionable insights, thoughtful analysis, and expert commentary from local SEO industry professionals.