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What Should I Put on the Homepage?
As marketers and search engines continue to get better at understanding what people are looking for, the purpose of a site's homepage has shifted. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand details some of those shifts and shows us what a truly effective homepage looks like today.
How to Use the Information Inside Google's Ved Parameter
With much of the information about where visitors came from now encrypted by Google, any tools that can help crack that code are worthwhile. This post shows you how to pull apart Google's ved parameter and break down the information it contains in Google Analytics.
Influence the Influencer: How to make the most of Bitly's Realtime Tool!
This is where the question comes from: How does one create a super-hit blog post that has the potential to go viral in a matter of minutes? (Okay, in hours if not minutes!) You must have seen bloggers who create blog posts that become viral right away, while yours just never go beyond the average. Ever wondered what is stopping you from becoming a star blogger in your niche?
The Best of 2013: The Top Posts and People on the Moz Blog
On the last day of 2013, we bring you a roundup of the year's top posts (based on several metrics), the top comments from community members, and the most active commenters on the blogs. Happy New Year!
When 2 Become 1: How Merging Two Domains Made Us an SEO Killing
A story of recovery, despondency, occasional despair, and a pretty big gamble that paid off. This post details the why, the how, and the what of the things you might be able to gain from merging two significant domains into one unified site.Level Up Your SEO Skills With Our Free Training
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The IdeaGraph
Search engines are increasingly referring to random affinities — links between seemingly unrelated concepts — to serve you the most interesting and relevant results. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Ian Lurie shows us how we can use those hidden relationships to our advantage.
Mission ImposSERPble 2: User Intent and Click Through Rates
Using the Slingshot CTR study (and a few others) as inspiration, Catalyst thought it would be beneficial to take a fresh look at some of our own click-through rate data and dive into the mindset of searchers and their proclivity for clicking on the different types of modern organic Google search results.
Moz Holiday Traditions
Here at Moz, we often feel like a big family. Just like any other family, over the years we've developed an eclectic set of traditions to celebrate the holiday season. We'd like to share a few of our favorites and welcome you to join us in these most joyous of festivities. ;)
Machine Learning for SEOs
Since the Panda and Penguin updates, the SEO community has been talking more and more about machine learning, and yet often the term still isn't well understood. We know that it is the "magic" behind Panda and Penguin, but how does it work, and why didn't they use it earlier?
Local Search Interview: 13 Questions For 6 Experts
Local search has gotten extremely complex during the last couple of years. Too complex for an average small business to navigate and too fast paced and multifaceted for most Internet marketers. This is why I got the best and the brightest in local search to help us by answering these 13 questions.