Is It A Google Ranking Factor?
Several HTML elements format text to help website visitors and search engine crawlers easily identify important portions of your content. But can these elements have an impact on your rankings…
Estimating Search Opportunity — 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. Estimating the opportunities within your various…
How To Lower Average Cost Per Click
Average cost per click (CPC) is top of everyone’s mind – the lower the CPC, the more clicks you can fit into your budget. There have been several questions about…
Current Trends in Email Marketing: Tips & Pitfalls [Podcast]
Email marketing is still one of the most effective ways to reach your audience. However, staying up-to-date on the latest trends is crucial to avoiding common mistakes. Jay Schwedelson, the…
A Blueprint From Beginner To Advanced
There isn’t a standard way to learn search engine optimization (SEO). Ask anyone working here at SEJ how they started in SEO, and you’ll get lots of different stories. It…
Here’s How We Do It
I’ve managed Ahrefs’ social media accounts for nine months now—and it’s been a journey, from experimenting with content formats to figuring out what engages people the most. To keep things…
Do I Write Separate Pillar Posts For Each Category?
Today’s Ask An SEO question comes from Robert from St. Pete, who asks: I’m new and just starting, and I’m confused about Pillar Posts. If I have software, gear, and…
What You Need To Know
How do you measure the effectiveness of your marketing campaigns? Have you ever felt that some marketing channels’ data seems to be located in “a void” – meaning it’s hard…
Google Integrates The Google Tag With Ads & Analytics
Google is making it easier to implement the Google tag across an entire website by integrating it with Google Ads and Google Analytics. Sitewide tags are essential to understanding how…
Why Content Marketing For Law Firms Doesn’t Have To Be Boring
Content marking is essential to any business’s strategy to acquire new customers and build authority for the brand. The hard part is that creating exciting and engaging content for fields…
Target Users Who Click On In-App Ads
Google Ads is rolling out an update for app marketers designed to increase revenue earned from in-app advertisements. Now, Google Ads’ app campaigns allow you to target people with an…
7 Tips For Better Local SEO Reporting
One area many agencies lack overall, especially in local SEO, is reporting. Unlike enterprise and international businesses with C-level executives and shareholders, many local businesses only care about getting more…
The Death & Afterlife of Content Marketing [Podcast]
In content marketing, trust is the most critical factor. But with all the updates happening now, will this still hold, and will content marketing die off soon? Vitor Peçanha, the…
Top 8 Questions To Ask Before Saying Yes to SEO Consultancy Services
In an ideal world, search engine optimization (SEO) is something you can handle on your own for your business. You know your business best, so you would know how to…
A Guide To Google’s Knowledge Graph Search API For SEO
Google introduced the Knowledge Graph in 2012 to help searchers discover new information quicker. Essentially, users can search for places, people, companies, and products and find instant results that are…
Twitter Update Sets Goal To Be “Best Place To Share Media”
Twitter announced an update to multimedia sharing that, together with another update, makes it easier to discover videos and in essence transitions Twitter toward becoming a multimedia sharing platform. The…
How to Rank Higher on Google (10 Steps)
Hundreds of factors could improve your Google rankings. But some are more difficult to influence than others. For that reason, if you want to rank higher, you need to be…
Google Analytics Discontinues Store Visits Reporting
Google advises publishers it will no longer report on store visits data in Google Analytics. Data will stop generating at the end of October, though historical data will remain available.…
Twitter Emulates TikTok With Two New Features
Twitter announced that it will be rolling out two updates that will incorporate video discovery with a new video carousel and improve the user experience of watching full screen videos.…
12 Tips To Drive Results
Social media has become a significant part of most people’s daily routines. According to a recent study from Pew Research Center, almost half of Americans use Facebook multiple times a…
Google, Apple, Meta, Amazon & Microsoft Join To Improve Voice Recognition
Google announced that it is joining the Speech Accessibility Project in order to help develop advanced speech recognition systems that can serve the needs of people with impaired speech. Speech…
Google Settles Consumer Privacy Lawsuit For $85 Million
Google parent company Alphabet Inc. will pay $85 million to end a consumer privacy lawsuit filed by the state of Arizona. The suit, which was filed in May 2020, alleged…
Instagram Is Now Putting Ads In Your Profile Feed
In a series of updates to Instagram advertising, the app is surfacing ads in more places, such as public profiles and the Explore tab. Additional updates include augmented reality (AR)…
3 Experiments To Run For Responsive Search Ads Testing
Responsive search ads (RSA) testing can be daunting yet rewarding. Google sending the expanded text ad (ETA) the way of the dinosaur disappointed many advertisers and marketers. But the opportunities…
The Types of Keywords That Will Boost Your SEO
Keywords are vital in creating comprehensive and effective search engine optimization (SEO) or site optimization plans. They help with web positioning, making your brand more visible and accessible to prospective…
Google’s Helpful Content & Core Updates [Webinar]
Google recently rolled out a new core update and the Helpful Content update. But what does that mean for your business? How can you tweak your content and SEO strategies…
Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO): How To Get Started
Right now, the internet has more than 1.1 billion websites operating across more than 271 million unique domains. That’s a nearly unfathomable number of pages competing for a finite amount…
7 Best Content Marketing Platforms For An Effective Strategy
“Content is everything.” At least, that’s one variation of the saying each website owner adheres to. But in the ever-changing landscape of content marketing, content distribution is a close runner-up…
SEO Trends, Organic Growth & Personal Branding With Craig Campbell
The game of search has evolved into something far beyond just optimizing your site for Google alone. Digital marketers are pressured to deliver results and are often conflicted about which…
Daily SEO Fix: Competitive Link Research
Link research is an essential pillar of an SEO strategy, but competitive link research can help you get a leg up. It’s vital for websites to not only know about…