Can Pro-Privacy Search Engines Replace Google?
Consumers of all ages and demographics are becoming increasingly aware of their growing dependence on technology – in many cases at the expense of their privacy. According to Pew Research…
7 Proven Tips To Get Influencers To Promote Your Brand On A Budget
Influencer marketing has exploded over the past couple of years. Everyone who’s anyone is using it to promote their brands. However, some businesses have learned how to run high-impact campaigns…
Facebook Launches Marketing Analytics Certificate Program
Facebook is adding to its library of certificate programs with the launch of the six-course Marketing Analytics Professional Certification. Offered in conjunction with Coursera, the program teaches the skills necessary…
Google Shares Tips For Optimizing Job Postings
Google says businesses are missing opportunities when it comes to optimizing job postings, and offers tips for how to improve them. As we head further into the hottest hiring season…
Google Enhances Search Results For “Deals” Queries
Google is now showing a new set of search results when people look for deals. Searches with words like “deals” and “Black Friday” will trigger a dedicated feed of discounted…
Sarah’s Goodbye
Hello, Moz friends…I’m signing off on the blog after a wonderfully wild, 14-year ride at Moz. It’s time for me to move on and make space for new voices, new…
Push Notifications: Re-Engaging Users in 2022
This post was sponsored by Notix. The opinions expressed in this article are the sponsor’s own. Push notifications are one of the most effective channels to re-engage users. But how…
Why (& How) Topic Clusters Are Your Most Powerful SEO Weapon
If you want to show Google that your webpages are both relevant to specific keywords and more authoritative than your competitors, topic clusters are one of the best ways to…
Help job seekers understand your job postings by including a complete description
Monday, November 01, 2021 We’ve uncovered an opportunity to improve your job posting pages, and it only takes a few changes to the description field. In the description section of…
OptinMonster Vulnerability Affects +1 Million Sites
WordPress security researchers reported that a flaw in the OptinMonster WordPress plugin was found to allow hackers to upload malicious scripts to attack site visitors and lead to full site…
Is It A Google Ranking Factor?
Giving customers and prospects a way to reach you by phone or email is just good business. It enables people to get in touch and ask questions, raise any concerns…
Title Tags are a Tiny Ranking Factor
Google’s John Mueller, in a YouTube Office-hours hangout, answered a question regarding title tags and search rankings. He addressed whether title tag rewriting impacts rankings and also what effect adding…
How to Fix Google Title Tag Rewrites
In an Office-hours hangout Google’s John Mueller answered the question of what algorithm factors are used to decide title tag rewrites. Mueller offered suggestions for a proactive approach for dealing…
Is It A Google Ranking Factor?
Unless you’re lucky enough to register a domain name no one has thought of before, chances are a domain registered today will have a history attached to it. Is there…
PPC And Digital Marketing Nightmares You Won’t Soon Forget
Happy Halloween mad PPC scientists and marketing mavens! From campaigns that hit you like sharks in a tornado to ads that rise from the dead, this year, digital marketing can…
LinkedIn Adds New Features To Help Companies Attract Talent
LinkedIn is adding new features to company pages to improve internal communication, attract new talent, and gain insight on competitors. We’re in the most competitive hiring market on record. What…
WordPress Facebook Feed Plugin Vulnerability Exposes 200,000+ Websites
Smash Balloon Social Post Feed, a WordPress plugin, was discovered to have a vulnerability that exposed the websites to allowing an attacker to upload malicious scripts. Security researchers at Jetpack…
Does URL Length Affect SEO?
Does Google prefer shorter URLs over longer URLs? That’s an SEO myth that won’t go away. Here’s when URL length matters and when it doesn’t. URL length is the topic…
Do Google Lighthouse Scores Affect SEO?
Google Lighthouse is the top recommended tool for measuring Core Web Vitals and other performance metrics. So it must affect SEO, right? Wrong. If the questions asked by SEOs are…
Google Changes More Structured Data Requirements
Google announced a change to several structured data types. This change affects the requirements for the HowTo, QAPage and the SpecialAnnouncement structured data. The guidance didn’t come with examples, which…
26 Common SEO Myths, Debunked
SEO is renowned for misinformation, misunderstandings, and misconceptions. This is in no small part due to Google being somewhat of a black box in order to try and limit the…
Vulnerabilities Are Not an SEO Issue… Until You Get Hacked
Google’s John Mueller answered a question in the SEO Office-hours hangout about whether a security vulnerability had any effect on SEO. He said technically it’s not an SEO issue. But…
Google Priority Hints – More Firepower to Support Core Web Vitals
In Mid-June, Google began rolling out Core Web Vitals as part of its Page Experience update. Page Experience is aimed at improving the user experience according to three metrics –…
19 SEO Horror Stories That Will Scare the Hell Out of You
Hello SERP sorcerers, tech SEO specialists, and link building extraordinaires! It’s almost Halloween, and we didn’t want it to pass by without sharing some spooky stories. But not just any…
The Ultimate Google Ads Pacing Dashboard (Free Data Studio Template)
As paid search managers, sometimes we don’t have all the tools we need to do our job. Even simple tasks like Google Ads pacing can be much harder than they…
SEO and Temporarily Out-of-Stock Product Pages
Google’s John Mueller answered an Office-hours hangout question about what to do about web pages for products that are temporarily out of stock. The person asking the question wanted to…
Must-Have Anti-Fraud Features To Protect Your Ad Campaigns [Checklist]
This post was sponsored by Adex. The opinions expressed in this article are the sponsor’s own. Did you know that bots can gulp a significant part of your advertising budget?…
YouTube SEO Guide To Rank Your Video Higher on SERPs
Are you struggling to get more views and subscribers on your YouTube channel? If so, here is the complete, step-by-step tutorial on how to do YouTube SEO the right way.…
How 3 Different Enterprise SaaS Content Strategies Work (With Examples)
SaaS is a fantastic niche that allows for a lot of creativity and testing when it comes to content creation in SEO. This is because of how different user journeys…
Did Facebook Change Its Name? Yes, It’s Now “Meta”
What started in a college dorm is set to transcend the physical world, as a new direction for Facebook begins today with an unexpected name change. The company formerly known…