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Last week, Rand discussed the importance of correlation data in general and how you can use it for SEO research. It's a lot easier to get things done if you know which tasks are high priority and which are low, and correlation data can help. This week, Rand finishes...
Marketing is best dissected into two easily digestible states, as the dichotomy of these states, static marketing and active marketing, form the clearest view of the failures many marketers make. Some of these mistakes may seem minor, but at scale, they make for tectonic marketing failure, as I will discuss in more detail in this post...
Hey Mozzers! A quick introduction for those of you who don't know me: my name is Sam Crocker. I work for a global media agency called OMD and am based in London. In addition to our work on (primarily) enterprise SEO clients we also occasionally find time to work on our search and social blog. I am an avid consumer...
The local listings in Google + Bing are becoming more competitive sector by sector and for some local businesses on the web, even tactics like competitive citation analysis and tools like Whitespark's awesome local citation finder aren...
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Whether you call it "Panda", "Farmer" or the "Anti-Demand-Media" update, Google is clearly making a push to reward "better" content. So the question becomes, how do you acquire better content? Buy It One of the reasons that content farms were started in the first place is because quality writing is expensive. Good writing re...
Today I want to share an incredibly simple yet massively powerful process for building search-optimized, "great content." There's no fancy tricks and nothing propetiary about the approach, but it is rare indeed to find an organization that follows these steps and hence, it's a way to potentially differentiate and build a competitive advantage. Step 1: Build a Survey...
Well hello there friends, it's been a few weeks since we've chatted about our new PRO Q&A forum. To be honest, over here at the MozPlex we've been pretty blown away by the volume and amazingness of both the questions and answers going on in there. Every one of you who has jumped in deserves a huge round of applause! We've been getting great feedback and have heard from a number of pe...
Many of you have likely read Google's official post from Matt Cutts and Amit Singhal about how their recent Panda algorithm update was intended to show more high-quality sites, and that research was an important indicator of a high-quality site: ...
Twitter giveaways have been useful for building brand awareness - but they might now help as part of an SEO strategy. This post has a few tips to help you get value from running sweepstakes on Twitter.
Keyword research is an area of SEO that all too often gets overlooked. I like to write about it but I like even more to actually do it. It fuels not only my love of crunching data but also my enjoyment of making judgments. Keyword research seems like a straightforward task; you pull up a huge list of keywords, narrow it down to the relevant ...
One of the most helpful aids in doing SEO is knowing what factors actually affect your rankings. It seems obvious on its face, but not everyone prioritizes their SEO work with the knowledge of how changes to a site and link profile actually affect the SERPs. It's important to at least have some heuristics to use in pursuit of higher rankings, and while it's not always easy, it is possi...
Google has in many ways the best of intentions and often does right by its users. I value their leadership in so many respects. But their recent algorithm change has gotten some folks (myself included, and I believe Google themselves) into some murky waters. While the precept of increasing quality should be a mandate for any self-respecting search engine, I believe the objective of picking wi...
A weird thing has happened as a result of panda. Something you might have expected Google's Search Quality testers to catch before rolling the update out. Due to the domain-wide nature of the signal, high-quality, original content produced by the websites who were negatively impacted are now being ranked below the exact same content, republished by partners to whom they syndicate. Eve...
This is my first YOUMoz post so please bear with me if I bore you to death. Everyone in the SEO industry seems to have this odd fascination with discovering the most important ranking factors employed by search engines. I even remember at SMX Advanced a year or two ago in Seattle that