There are many strategies to address inherent SEO issues in Wordpress, and even more ways to solve them. Nick Herinckx shares his tips for SEO best practices on Wordpress in a supplemental post to his Mozinar -- our most attended Mozinar to date!
If you want to win at SEO in 2013, you must commit to a solid long-term strategy. However, that's not to say you can't build small wins into your long-term strategy to strengthen it along the way. Here are 96 quick wins you can implement in an hour or less to see tremendous results.
I was going to write a long list of SEO tips for 2013, but I realized that I can sum them all up in just one point. Actually, just one word. No, I'm not going to tell you right here in the teaser. That's why it's a teaser.
If you watch your rankings closely, it's hard not to sometimes feel like Google is messing with you. Are they just injecting random change to keep SEOs busy? I try to put this to the test with two experiments.
Joost de Valk gave a talk this week at SEO Day in Cologne, Germany, about optimizing for clicks, not just rankings. The premise of the talk was: SEOs tend to think their job is done when they’ve got their top 3 / top 5 listing, when in fact you’re only half way when you’ve reached that mark.
There's a new tool in the SEO utility belt - Google's link disavow. Like all powers, this one comes with responsibility. Learn how to tell if disavowal is a good fit for you and how to use this power wisely.
Exact match domains have always been the source of a lot of contention among SEOs. For quite some time, EMDs have offered a competitive advantage for SEOs who understood how to use them.
Let's start by level-setting expectations right away: this post has very little to do with actual SEO implementation. You won't find any performance tips here, analytics hacks, nor war stories with technological terrors and the people who engineer them. If that's what you're looking for, there are several...
After seeing some tweets and analyzing the SEOmoz website, I decided to write some tips and tricks that can decrease pages load time as much as possible. Any search engine wants to provide users a great user experience, just like Google, and a fast site improves overall site quality and increases user satisfaction. Everybody deserves a fast web experience. Some of the following tips are implemented well by SEOmoz, but I will explain them anyway because of their general usefulness.
On July 9th, a good friend of mine reached out to me with a problem. As a very risk-averse webmaster, he constantly plunges into the numbers, especially anchor text diversity, in order to make sure his site is as penalty-proof as possible. The latest updated data in SEOmoz's MozScape revealed a massive shift towards anchor text over optimization for several primary terms. It took only a few minutes to identify the culprit.
I wouldn’t say Google is the “enemy”, but all too often they’re far being from a friend. Understanding Google and understanding yourself will set you up to avoid catastrophe.
Hang tight, folks! Before we get into the whooo-done-it part of this post, here's a basic illustration of how URL shorteners work.....
Google's Penguin update has caused near-hysteria over negative SEO. While negative SEO is very real, it's also very rare. Learn how to spot the warning signs and when to worry.
One of the best ways to achieve your goals in any field is to learn from those who have achieved success in your industry. I asked some of the top professionals and leaders in the SEO field to share their best advice for being successful in the SEO field. Here are their responses.
