Whiteboard Friday
Howdy Moz fans! Welcome to Whiteboard Friday, the longest-running and most popular SEO video series. Featuring industry experts as guest hosts who share their hands-on SEO experience working with agencies, businesses, and consultancies. Each weekly episode delivers actionable SEO training to help you advance your career and master digital marketing.
Browse our curated favorites or check out the latest episodes below to stay on top of SEO best practices.
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5 Tactics to Earn Links Without Having to Directly Ask
Stop bumming out journalists, bloggers, and content creators by begging for links. Try out some of Rand's tactics in this Whiteboard Friday to earn those links without the painful ask (and low success rate).
Is the New, Most Powerful Ranking Factor "Searcher Task Accomplishment?"
There's a new ranking factor in town, and it's one that will affect almost every aspect of your site optimization. Check out why searcher task accomplishment is such a big deal in today's Whiteboard Friday.
SEO Best Practices for Canonical URLs + the Rel=Canonical Tag
[Canonical SEO] Learn Google SEO best practices by how to properly implement the CANONICAL URL TAG. Learn about rel=canonical, where it's necessary and appropriate, and the pitfalls you should avoid at all costs.
Mission SEO Impossible: Rank a Single Brand Website for a Broad, Plural Search Query with Comparative Intent
It's not impossible to compete with comparison sites in the SERPs. In this Whiteboard Friday, Rand tackles one of the toughest ranking issues in SEO: capturing those broad plural search queries with comparative intent.
How Content Can Succeed By Making Enemies
Making enemies with your content can actually have a lot of benefits, not the least of which are new allies gained and the links and shares that follow. Rand shares what to do (and what not to do) when it comes to chasing success with controversial content.Level Up Your SEO Skills With Our Free Training
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Creating Influencer-Targeted Content to Earn Links + Coverage
Most SEO campaigns need three kinds of links to be successful; targeting your content to influencers can get you 2/3 of the way there. In this Whiteboard Friday, Rand covers the tactics that will help your content get seen and shared by those with a wide and relevant audience.
How to Use Domain Authority, Page Authority, and Link Metrics
Unclear on how to apply link metrics like linking root domains, Domain Authority, and Page Authority? Rand defines these terms and how to use them alongside your other SEO metrics in this Whiteboard Friday.
How Does Google Handle CSS + Javascript "Hidden" Text?
Does Google treat text kept behind "read more" links with the same importance as non-hidden text? The short answer is "no," but there's more nuance to it than that. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand explains just how the search engine giant weighs text hidden from view using CSS and JavaScript.
Ranking Fluctuations: What to Expect + How to React
Rankings fluctuations can be panic-inducing, but they happen to everyone. In this Whiteboard Friday, Rand discusses why ranking fluctuations occur, the importance of keeping your cool during those darker moments, and how to identify when you should actually be concerned.
Should SEOs Care About Internal Links?
Learn how to analyze, optimize, and structure your internal links (and put the kibosh on out-of-date tactics) in this Whiteboard Friday.