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How We Ranked a Single Page for 2.6K Keywords Driving 30K Monthly Searches [Case Study]

By leveraging data-centered campaigns, paired with personalized outreach to top publishers, we regularly garner earned media placements for our clients. In rare cases, we create content that generates results so far beyond what was anticipated that a single project can greatly move the needle. I’m going to walk through one such instance to reveal how it all works together, what can be learned from this experience, and the type of result it can achieve.

Building Better Customer Experiences - Best of Whiteboard Friday

Your customer's experience after becoming a lead is important for their loyalty and retention. In this classic Whiteboard Friday, Dana DiTomaso shares 3 big things you can start doing today that will immensely improve your customer experience.

Content Authority: Potential Measures of Authoritative Content

If Google were to use a measure of content authority, what might go into it? In this episode of Whiteboard Friday, Russ Jones walks us through what exactly might constitute a "content authority" score and how SEOs can measure their efforts.

Announcing: The Keyword Research Master Guide

Why a new guide? Often in SEO, we get so preoccupied with technical SEO (pagination, site speed, the latest Python course, etc.) that we forget the basis of winning SEO begins and ends with keywords. Not choosing keywords before you start with SEO means shooting in the dark — a likely losing gamble if your content will succeed or not.Choosing the wrong keywor...

How Google SERP Layouts Affect Searching Behavior

There are several studies (and lots of data) out there about how people use Google SERPs, what they ignore, and what they focus on. Two things I have never seen tested are the actual user reactions to and behavior with SERPs. My team and I set out to test these ourselves, and this is where biometric technology comes into play.

Why Site Speed Still Matters (Revisited)

Portent's latest site speed study refresh looked at 10 websites spanning a number of industries and 26,000 different landing pages, ranging in performance from extremely slow pages to extremely fast. The results show that every second you can shave off your page load speed has intense conversion rate benefits that defy differences in verticals or selling approaches.

Matter. How SEOs Can Help... Now

As SEOs, we can influence over how the world gets its information. In times like these, when businesses of all stripes are facing uncertainty and we may be looking for ways to help, SEO can be your superpower. Russ Jones outlines five ways SEOs can make a difference amid the chaos of COVID-19 — simply by doing your job and doing it well.

Opting Out of Google Featured Snippets Led to 12% Traffic Loss [SEO Experiment]

Working with the team at SearchPilot, we devised an A/B split test experiment to remove Moz Blog posts from Google featured snippets, and measure the impact on traffic.

The SEO Elevator Pitch - Best of Whiteboard Friday

How to show your value to potential clients or stakeholders is an essential skill right now. In this favorite episode of Whiteboard Friday, Kameron Jenkins shares how to effectively and succinctly build an SEO elevator pitch that highlights the value you bring to a business (and 3 warnings on what not to do.)

How Your Local Business Can Be a Helper

“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’ To this day, especially in times of disaster, I rememb...

Why and How to Bring Empathy Into Your Content

Now would be a perfect time to bring more compassion and kindness into the content you create. Here are practical tips for doing so.

Marketing in Times of Uncertainty

Our work as marketers has transformed drastically in the space of a month. Today, we're grateful to welcome our good friend Rand to talk about a topic that's been on the forefront of our minds lately: how to do our jobs empathetically and effectively through one of the most difficult trials in modern memory.