Winning featured snippets is competitive, but it's one of the best ways to get visibility on page 1 of Google's SERPs. In this Whiteboard Friday, Britney Muller covers the first three steps you can take toward earning the true top spot on results pages and shares useful tools to help.
It's absolutely possible to migrate your site without suffering significant losses, if you do it carefully and correctly. This comprehensive guide covers the different types of site migrations, common pitfalls, a detailed 6-phase process to follow, and useful tools to use and download.
Ever wasted time and effort chasing lost traffic that was never really lost? Follow along with a client audit that will help you determine the right course of action to take when you're not sure whether your declining organic traffic is due to optimization or tracking.
Every consultant or SEO will be asked at some point to investigate an organic traffic drop. To make that investigation a little less painful, this post lays out eleven essential questions to ask that'll help you get to the bottom of the drop.
If all your analytics and data tools were suddenly taken away, would the value of your work disappear, as well? Will Critchlow dives into a thoughtful examination of how to prove the worth of results that you can't measure and report on.
Your rankings have dropped and you don't know why. Maybe your traffic dropped as well, or maybe just a section of your site has lost rankings. It's an important mystery to solve, and in this Whiteboard Friday, Rand shares a detailed process to follow to diagnose what went wrong, why it happened, and how to recover.
We spent much of 2017 improving and reinforcing our SEO products to better serve the experts who use them. Check out the biggest updates from the past year, and get a sneak peek at what we have planned for 2018!
For the past ten years, Rand has made a set of predictions for SEO in the year ahead, and for all ten years he's been largely correct. Check out what he got right in 2017, and pay close attention to his predictions for 2018 — they're doozies!
Correlations data isn't always as clear as it seems. In this Whiteboard Friday, Rand shares the myths and realities of correlations in SEO ranking factor studies, then offers five smart ways to glean more trustworthy, useful information from the data.
This edition of Whiteboard Friday covers a nine-point SEO checklist of the major items you need to cross off to rank in 2018 — and maybe get some hints on how to explain it to others, too.
We've curated a hefty list of the Moz Blog's top posts throughout the year, covering all of our most popular categories. Come check out what you may have missed, see which community members made the Top 10 Comments, and help us ring in 2018 right!
The end of November saw a spike in the average length of SERP snippets. Across 90K results, we found a definite increase but many oddities, such as video snippets. Our data suggests that many snippets are exceeding 300 characters, and we recommend a new meta description limit of 300 characters.
Looking to reduce the level of direct traffic in your Google Analytics reports? This guide defines exactly what constitutes direct traffic and how to combat it in your reports for better data.
AMP can offer some serious benefits, even for e-commerce (one business saw conversion rates improve 100%), but implementing it sloppily will come back to haunt you. Check out case studies and analyses that just may convince you to accelerate your mobile pages in 2018.
