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Growing Your Audience with Random Affinities

Most of us don't get to choose what we write about. Random affinities can help keep your content fresh and, most importantly, reach your audience in more ways than ever before.

Guest Blogging - Enough is Enough

Guest blogging is not a strategy, and it’s not a generic solution that can be applied to every client or every part of your site. Guest posts can be an effective supplemental tactic to a fully-formed strategy, but giving this tactic center stage is a recipe for frustration and inevitable defeat.

Lost Your Google Reviews? Take A Proactive Stance!

Apart from a local business profile completely disappearing from Google's local index, few things cause more frustration and heartache than lost reviews. Unfortunately, lost reviews are one of the problems most frequently reported by local business owners, creating stormy weather in this whole region of Google land.

Are Google Plus Users Dangerous?

Under the new Google Plus Local system, reviews are sorted by default to display the "Most Helpful" as opposed to most recent, as they had been with Google Places. According to a recent field observation, this means that any review left by a verified Google Plus user is much more likely to be the first, and possibly only, review that your potential customer will read when searching on Google Local.

Q&A From E-Commerce SEO: Fix and Avoid Common Issues Webinar

Mozzers just can't get enough of e-commerce. On July 31st, Everett did a webinar for us about tips and tricks for making your e-commerce sites SEO-friendly. As attendees had a ton of questions -- not all of which we could answer in our limited time together, we wanted to make sure they all were answered.

The SEO Project Management Jedi Challenge: May the seoPM Force Be With You

Almost a month ago (time flies, doesn't it?) I had the opportunity to share a story at MozCon about SEO Project Management (seoPM) with guidelines to enhance the management of the SEO process and achieve more effective results. Since I know you're all quite busy and may need a reminder on the topic, I wanted to check in to see if you're really following the guidelines I shared... in a very fun way, of course.

SERP Crowding & Shrinkage: It's Not Your Imagination

Rumors are that Google SERPs have been more "crowded" (fewer domains) lately, and that some SERPs are showing less than 10 results. Thanks to the Mozcast data set, I've been able to show that both ideas are much more than rumor.

8 Link Building Tips

For today's Whiteboard Friday, I'll be covering eight tips to help you build more links. This follows on from my talk at MozCon which covered 35 ways to get links in around 35 minutes. At MozCon, I explained how link building is hard, it takes time and can be very tough for most of us. Unfortunately for most of us, it isn't as simple as just producing content which aut...

How Does Google Local Change in Different Google Country Browsers?

I took part in the first Euro 2012 State of Search Roadshow where I met many different SEOs all over Europe. I interviewed 11 SEOs and blogged about it on the Best European Search Blog 2012, State of Search. While I was out in Europe, I thought I would look at local search in the different languages and different countries.

New Data: The Correlations Between Social Sharing and Inbound Links

Over the past few years, the topics I've researched, written, and spoken about have evolved. One of the most common questions I'm still asked is about the relationship between social media sharing and SEO performance.

How Optimizing My Ugly Google+ Pic Increased Free Traffic 35%

Over the years, SEOs have employed many techniques to control how their site appears in search results. These included: writing compelling Title Tags, descriptive Meta Descriptions, use of NOODP and NOYDIR meta tags, and keyword rich URLs. But times are changing.

Two Mozscape Updates in August! And More Info on Why PA/DA Fluctuate

Just 14 short days ago, I wrote about the August Mozscape index update. Today, as part of our efforts to create shorter deltas between indices, I'm excited to announce that we have our fastest ever time between updates. There's new data right now in the Mozscape API (for which...