When HTTPS was confirmed as a ranking factor, many organizations rushed to implement it without realizing they were impacting the UX of their sites. In this post, the folks at Zoompf detail the steps we should all take to minimize those side effects.
By mapping relationships between entities, Google is often able to know what we meant to search for, even if we weren't great at articulating it. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand explains what SEOs need to know about that process.
Mike Arnesen shares how to use Google Tag Manager to track the ROI of your site's structured data. Plus, learn how to leverage your markup to produce "semantic analytics."
Google has confirmed that Penguin 3.0 has/is rolled/rolling out, so why didn't MozCast detect anything? We dive deep into the data to find out if Penguin 3.0 just wasn't very big after all.
As marketers, helping search engines understand what our content means is one of our most important tasks. Search engines can’t read pages like humans can, so we incorporate structure and clues as to what our content means. This post explores a series of on-page techniques that not only build upon one another, but can be combined in sophisticated ways.
With Panda, the devil isn't in the details, it's in the aggregate. Panda is a completely curable disease if we stop missing the forest for the trees.
Nothing like the "The 200 Google Ranking Factors" actually exists. It is a myth, and those who claim to be able to offer a final list are its prophets. This post explains how the myth was born and the importance of knowing the stages of search engines' working process.
A brand new update for the complete guide to make broken link building efficient and sustainable in the long run for your business or clients.
We don't need to create heaps of pages to target long-tail keywords. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Moz associate (and long-time community member) Gianluca Fiorelli explains how we can use topical hubs and an entity-based approach to tell Google about connections it might otherwise have missed.
It’s rare when Google reveals any of its actual ranking factors, so it came as a big surprise when representatives announced they would reward sites using HTTPS encryption with a boost in search results. HTTPS isn’t like other ranking factors. Implementing it requires complexity, risks, and costs. Webmasters balance this out with benefits that include increased security, better referral data, and a possible boost in rankings.
Many rumors have spread about negative SEO. Should we be worried? How should we protect our sites? This post paints a comprehensive picture to help put concerns to rest.
Back in July, Google rolled out a bunch of changes in the way they treat rich snippets in the search results. One of these shifts was to dramatically scale back the prevalence of video snippets in universal search results, restricting them exclusively to domains where video is the core offering of the site. What does this mean for video SEO? Should you now move all your videos to YouTube?
Are you seeing links drop off in third-party tools, yet they're still showing in Google Webmaster Tools? Here's the sneaky thing that may be happening.
Most marketers have heard about the importance of content audits but aren't sure where to start. This post walks you through every step.
