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.
Brand Entity and SEO : Learn how to transform your brand from a digital unknown into a recognized entity in Google's Knowledge Graph.
The Value of SEO Beyond Traffic and Leads : Discover why SEO should be viewed as your website's foundation rather than a set-and-forget tactic, and learn to communicate its full business impact.
Top SEO Tips for 2025 : Chima shares essential strategies for navigating SEO in an AI-driven landscape, helping you adapt and thrive in this transformative year.
How to Choose a Domain Name
How to choose a domain name: make it brandable, pronounceable, short, intuitive, bias to .com, avoid names that infringe on another company, use broad keywords, and if not available, modify.
Managing the Tensions & Tradeoffs Between UX & SEO
We don't live in a world where we have the luxury of thinking about just user experience or just SEO. The two share many of the same spaces online, working in tandem and sometimes clashing. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand details the considerations and compromises that must be made for UX & SEO to coexist in harmony.
How to Tie Marketing Metrics to the Data that Boards, CxOs, and Investors Really Care About
A simple change in language and perspective could be what's standing between you and getting the C-suite buy-in that's integral to your success. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand helps you translate your marketing jargon into financial metrics and data that the folks in charge will actually care about.
Long Tail SEO: When & How to Target Low-Volume Keywords
[Long Tail SEO] The keyword phrases you can uncover in the long tail of search are worth their weight in gold, often driving highly valuable SEO traffic to your site. Dive into core strategies to make long tail keywords work in your favor, from niche-specific SEO to a bigger content strategy.
Why Listing Accuracy is Important
Whether you manage a single local listing or hundreds, the consistency of your NAP data across the web can make or break your business. With answers for just about everyone, Moz Local's George Freitag stars in this week's Whiteboard Friday covering all the boons and secrets of listing accuracy (give him a warm welcome, folks!).Level Up Your SEO Skills With Our Free Training
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What to Do When the Wrong Page Ranks for Your Keyword(s)
Picture this: You discover that your site is ranking for a keyword you've been targeting. Cause for celebration, right? But what if that ranking page is irrelevant, wrong, or simply not the best choice? This frustrating situation is more common than you might think. Rand shows you how to cope when you find that your valuable queries are sending traffic to the wrong URLs in today's Whiteboard Friday.
SEO for Bloggers: How to Nail the Optimization Process for Your Posts
With the right process and a dose of patience, SEO success is always within reach — even if you're running your own blog. Optimizing your blog posts begins as early as the inception of your idea, and from then on you'll want to consider your keyword targeting, on-page factors, your intended audience, and more. In this Whiteboard Friday, Rand spells out a step-by-step process you can adopt to help increase search traffic to your blog over time.
How to Research the Path to Customer Purchase
Moving your customers down the funnel from awareness to conversion can make for a winding and treacherous road. Until you fully research and understand the buying process inside and out, it's far too easy to make a misstep. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand takes a high-level look at the path to customer purchase, recommending workflows and tools to help you forge your own way.
All About App Search: Indexing, Ranking Factors, Universal Links, and More
App search is growing and changing, and there's more opportunity than ever to both draw customers in at the top of the funnel and retain them at the bottom. In today's special British Whiteboard Friday, Tom Anthony and Will Critchlow of Distilled dig into everything app search and highlight a future where Google may have some competition as the search engine giant.
On-Page SEO in 2016: The 8 Principles for Success
On-page SEO is no longer a simple matter of checking things off a list. There's more complexity to this process in 2016 than ever before, and the idea of "optimization" both includes and builds upon traditional page elements. In this Whiteboard Friday, Rand explores the eight principles you'll need for on-page SEO success going forward.