By the end of this article you’ll know how to whip up intelligent SEO reports for your clients (or potential clients) that will deliver actionable insights any search chef worth their salt would be proud of. Jo Cameron combines basic metrics and a few culinary metaphors to take your client reporting to the next level.
Rigid CMS? Backed-up dev queue? Using Google Tag Manager, you can move past your issues implementing technical SEO changes and start adding structured data, canonicals, noindex tags, mobile switchboard tags, and more.
This isn't your dad's keyword tool. Learn about novel ways to take advantage of powerful keyword tools like Moz Keyword Explorer to do far more than find related keywords.
Being a small publishing company is hard; most are understaffed and overworked, always playing catch-up with the big players. To compete, you must keep your focus honed, use external apps for the heavy lifting, and consider outside publishing platforms.
XML sitemaps are a powerful tool for SEOs, but are often misunderstood and misused. Michael Cottam explains how to leverage XML sitemaps to identify and resolve indexation problems.
What's new for on-page SEO in 2017? Rand outlines it in 5 succinct tactics: 1) Move beyond keyword repetition rules; 2) Searcher intent matters more than raw keywords; 3) Related topics are essential; 4) Links don't always beat on-page; and 5) Topical authority is more important than ever.
Can Google Search Console data be trusted? Everyone uses it, but does it really reflect what's happening on the web? Is it out of date? Is it biased? We take a hard look at several metrics in Google Search Console, measuring internal and external validity.
A comparative look at Keyword Explorer vs. Keyword Planner keyword research results. Which tool provides the highest-quality keywords? Does one tool miss keywords that the other discovers?
One of the things we as marketers often need to do is pitch content concepts to sites. To make this easier, you want to pitch something on-topic. To do that more effectively, I decided to spend some time creating a process to help in the ideation stage.
Search Console is one of the most powerful tools we have for diagnosing website errors. Learn how to prioritize and resolve your site's crawl errors in Google Search Console — those hundreds of 404 errors may not be so daunting after all.
It's no easy task to keep your ideas fresh and relevant. Tap into your audiences' conversations in a mere 20 minutes with the help of tools like Screaming Frog.
Analyzing data is tedious and time-consuming. What if there were a better way? In this post, Jeremy Gottlieb outlines one incredibly versatile Excel formula you should be using to make your SEO tasks easier.
Finding the right long tail keyword can be like searching for buried treasure. Tap into search terms that are easier to rank for and that indicate stronger intent — Jo Cameron shows you how to curate your own long tail list (and have a grand old time while you're at it).
Sometimes you have so much data it causes Excel to fail. When that happens, turn to Google BigQuery to help. Dominic Woodman walks you through setting up and using BigQuery for making huge datasets manageable.
