For B2B or ecommerce, people often discover your brand with commercial queries like "dining room lamps" or an informational search like "how to fix a dishwasher". Then they look around your site, your social profiles, get retargeted—before ever making a purchase—but in many cases that journey started with an non-branded organic search.
There are many pages on the Web that are filled with data in the form of tables, and Google is including some of that tablular data in search results in places that may surprise you. Here's how it works, and how you can take advantage.
Think you just got hit by Penguin 3.0 but the data don't quite make sense? You might be looking at a Penguin-Panda-Pirate combo. Glenn Gabe explains
Google's Physical Web project is a new initiative to establish a standard for making 'smart' objects which people can interact with via their smart phones or similar devices. This post introduces the Physical Web concept, how it works, and will make a couple of first predictions about how this might affect SEO in the future, including how interactions will be ranked.
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.
With Google's SERPs always testing new features, the team at Mediative decided it was time to figure out how the "Golden Triangle" has changed. Check out how users are looking at and interacting with today's SERPs in the results of their study.
What does the future for link builders hold? The answer is that it's not just about links anymore. They will always be important but there is much more to the future and link builders need to think a lot bigger in order to be a part of it.
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.
Around September 25th, there was a significant jump in Google answer boxes, most or all of them coming from the new style answers. I dig into the data, examples, and an experiment with the Knowledge Vault.
We've all been there. Trying to improve our organic rankings so we can get more traffic from the search engines. And every time we do that, we are left with some big questions in our minds, like: How much traffic would I actually get if I rank on the first page? This post offers a new study of click-through rates of various positions on SERPs in an attempt to answer those questions.
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.
Searchmetrics recently launched their yearly Ranking Factors Study that bases numbers on rank correlation and averages of top 10 SEO rankings. The 2014 analysis shows that content on top-performing sites is much more holistic and less keyword-focused. In this post, Marcus Tober, founder and CTO of Searchmetrics, explains why you should focus on more than just keywords when it comes to technical aspects of your site, and how you can create relevant, comprehensive content for users.
What happens when you accidentally de-index your site from Google, on purpose? We decided to find out for ourselves by removing Followerwonk from search results. Here's what we learned.
In the past 2 months Google made big changes to its search results. Webmasters saw lost both authorship photos and video snippets. Here at Moz, we've closely monitored our traffic to our own URLs to measure the effect of these changes on our actual traffic. The results surprised us.
