How To Repurpose Long-Form Content Into Supplementary Content
Everyone knows good content needs to serve a purpose. Whether it’s informative, persuasive, or awareness-focused, every word on your website should have a clear goal it’s trying to achieve. But…
Helpful Content Signal May Get Stronger With Next Core Update
Google’s Search Liaison, Danny Sullivan, says the helpful content ranking signal may get stronger with future algorithm updates. The helpful content update started rolling out two weeks ago. Early feedback…
What You Need To Know
To stay relevant, brands must continue to engage their customers through ads, contests, and other marketing strategies. But what is a Facebook competition? How does it work? And why should…
Find Resources Bigger Than 15 MB For Better Googlebot Crawling
Googlebot is an automatic and always-on web crawling system that keeps Google’s index refreshed. The website worldwidewebsize.com estimates Google’s index to be more than 62 billion web pages. Google’s search…
The Democratization of SEO: A Practical Guide
To be in lockstep with Google’s algorithms, SEOs are now working with other teams to accomplish their goals, whether it’s user experience (UX), development, media or something else. This process…
Google’s Top 3 Metrics For Evaluating User Experience
Core Web Vitals (CWV) are a set of metrics developed by Google to measure the user experience of site visitors. They provide an idea of how well a webpage performs…
Google Will Reject Ads Leading To Pages With Intrusive Advertising
Google Ads is implementing a new policy requiring landing pages to meet the “better ads standards,” as the Coalition For Better Ads laid out. A change to Google’s destination requirements…
Google Updates Documentation On Meta Descriptions
Google updated its documentation on creating high-quality meta descriptions that will show up in the search results by adding examples of best and worst practices. The change was made in…
Healthcare SEO Fundamentals To Grow Your Medical Practice
On the one hand, working on healthcare SEO for your medical practice website is no different from optimizing any other kind of site. You do your keyword and competitor research,…
Meta Lists 4 Ranking Signals For Video On Facebook
Meta shares four top signals its algorithm uses to determine which videos receive wide distribution on Facebook. The signals that have the most significant influence on video distribution include: Originality…
Google Announces Helpful Content Algorithm Update
What is it? On August 18th, Google announced that it would launch an update to its search algorithm called the “Helpful Content Update.” According to Google, this is part of…
5 Types Of Social Media Networks And The Benefits Of Each One
People use social media to share pictures and videos, post updates, and connect with family, friends, and brands. Likewise, brands use these social media networks to grow their audiences, conduct…
The Best SEO Conferences In 2022-2023 (Virtual And In-Person)
As an industry in a constant state of flux – thanks to changing algorithms, user needs, and competitor content – search engine optimization is a field that demands professionals to…
The Top 5 Soft Skills SEOs Should Develop
The author’s views are entirely his or her own (excluding the unlikely event of hypnosis) and may not always reflect the views of Moz. When it comes to SEO, especially…
Advice From Schema App’s CEO
What does it take to rise to the top of search results and stay visible? Martha van Berkel, co-founder, and CEO of Schema App, gave a definite answer in an…
What Is Programmatic Advertising? How Does It Work?
Programmatic advertising has been a buzzword in the marketing industry for quite some time. But what does programmatic actually do? And how does it differ from traditional display marketing? Read…
8 Benefits of Cookies in Digital Marketing
Cookies have been around for a long time. You probably remember them from your last Internet browsing session: small text files that get stored on your device and help websites…
Do They Help Or Hurt Your SEO?
Early in the 2000s, reciprocal link building was a popular method to increase your search traffic and boost your backlink profile. Also referred to as “traded” or “exchanged” links, reciprocal…
11 Ways to Improve E-commerce Category Pages for SEO
If you’ve been doing SEO for a while, you’ll understand what I mean when I say category pages are a common area SEO and UX experts disagree on. And this…
How to Do Better, Lazier Keyword Research
The author’s views are entirely his or her own (excluding the unlikely event of hypnosis) and may not always reflect the views of Moz. This post is an expansion on…
What Is Quora & How It Works
Quora is a highly ranked platform for asking and answering questions. The high-search visibility makes it a useful destination for building company awareness through answering questions. What Is Quora? Quora…
LinkedIn Lists Top 20 In-Demand Skills
LinkedIn publishes a new report on the most in-demand skills based on analyzing job postings. The top 20 skills are featured in 78% of postings. Data in the report was…
How To Use Amazon Hidden Keywords To Increase Product Discoverability
Amazon is the biggest name in the game for selling products online. But with 1.9 million selling partners, the competition is fierce. To claim your market share, you need to…
How To Bring Your SEO & SEM Teams Together [Webinar]
Which team are you on, SEO or SEM? Do you feel like everyone is in this together, or does it seem like there are some independent islands where everyone is…
The History Of Social Media
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines social media as: “forms of electronic communication (such as websites for social networking and microblogging) through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal…
How Can We Encourage Older Consumers To Leave Reviews?
Today’s Ask An SEO comes from Kayle, who asked in a recent webinar: How can we encourage older consumers who are not well-versed with computers to leave reviews for us?…
How To Incorporate More Context In Your Social Media Content
Social media has become a part of our everyday lives. The many platforms have revolutionized the way we communicate. They provide quick access to information and entertainment at the touch…
How to Write a Blog Post (That People Actually Want to Read) in 9 Steps
Type a couple of hundred words and publish them somewhere—poof, you have a blog post. Or do you? If a blog post is published and no one reads it, is…
How to Measure Content Engagement — Whiteboard Friday
The author’s views are entirely his or her own (excluding the unlikely event of hypnosis) and may not always reflect the views of Moz. When it comes to content engagement,…
How to Find a Website’s Keywords (Organic & Paid)
Contrary to some advice on the web, you won’t find a website’s keywords by viewing its HTML code or using the “find” function. You will need an SEO tool for…