The Moz Blog
The industry's top wizards, doctors, and other experts offer their best advice, research, how-tos, and insights—all in the name of helping you level-up your SEO and online marketing skills.
Facebook Promoted Posts vs Sponsored Stories
There's been a lot of buzz around Facebook's Promoted Post feature over the past few months. I've read several blog posts (the HasOffers post was great) who have tried testing the effectiveness of Promoted Posts vs Facebook's Sponsored Story ads, and thought it would be interesting to do a similar test here at SEOmoz.
Owl.li Is Ranking Above My Own Page! What To Do? Whooo To Blame?
Hang tight, folks! Before we get into the whooo-done-it part of this post, here's a basic illustration of how URL shorteners work.....
Let On-Page Optimization Change your Life!
Do NOT underestimate the value of good content, on-page optimization, and strong theme building! As people involved in the SEO industry, we come across various websites in our scope of work. Ecommerce, lead-based information portals..the list is never ending!
The State of Social Media in 2012: An Interview With The Speakers of #MozCon
The world has changed a lot. I don't mean compared to last year (while it is true that many things have change...
Why Webmasters Aren't Replying to Your Outreach
Since launching my personal blog I have been bombarded with guest post requests, with very few of them being worthy of reading, nevermind responding to. Thus, it was literally one in 267 emails that inspired this article about what makes an email that webmasters and bloggers will respond to.Level Up Your SEO Skills With Our Free Training
Moz Academy Training
Complete courses to master SEO basics
Keyword Research Master Guide
Learn Keyword Research like the pros
Guide to SEO Competitor Analysis
Win rankings and traffic from your competition
Listening to the Web with Google Reader: A Beginner's Guide
This post is about building a listening machine for the web. We’re fans of the cheap (or free) DIY approach. If you have hundreds or thousands of dollars a month, tools like Radian6 are great. For the rest of us, we can create a pretty powerful listening tool with the following....
Why Link Building Strategies Fail
Not all link building strategies are created equal. Learn from my mistakes and avoid these common reasons link building strategies fail.
First Thoughts On Google's New Tabbed Sitelinks
On the 6th of July I accidentally came across (what could be any time soon) Google's new tabular mega sitelinks. They became available to me purely by coincidence but the unique opportunity to see something which was unavailable to most searchers was more than welcome.
8 Rules for Exceptional Slide Presentations
In last week's Whiteboard Friday, we talked about how you can leverage the power slide decks to boost your SEO. This week, we are going to be following up on that same theme with, 8 rules that you can use to make exceptional slide decks. Here you will...
Click Through Rates in Google SERPs for Different Types of Queries
I was interested in click through rates in Google search engine result pages. It is obvious that the position in search engine result pages is vital. However, it is just as important that there are three main types of keywords, and these keywords might have different click through rates. To find out if that thesis is true, I conducted a study.