Howdy Mozzers! Welcome to Whiteboard Friday.
The most famous video series in all of SEO, Rand Fishkin started filming this series when Moz was a very young company that didn't even sell software. Since then, it's grown to millions of views and the videos have helped trained thousands of SEOs.
We've included some of our favorite episodes here, and find the latest below. Enjoy, and best of luck with your SEO!
6 Ways ChatGPT Can Improve Your SEO : From on-page optimizations to technical SEO, AI can do more than create content. Supercharge your organic traffic with these tips from Moz’s SEO Director.
How to Win Potential Consumers with Customer Journey Mapping on Google : Learn about your potential customers and their conversations with Google by using the customer journey mapping method to provide them with the best content.
Crawled — Currently Not Indexed: A Coverage Status Guide : Understand the mysterious “Crawled — currently not indexed” status in the Index Coverage report in Google Search Console.
When it comes to the link building process, there’s a lot to keep track of — and that process today is pretty different from what it was a few short years ago. In this week's Whiteboard Friday, Rand scores 20 different attributes that can influence a link's value based on whether or not they still matter in 2015/2016.
One thing we can all agree on: there's a lot to think about when it comes to your SEO tasks. Even for the most organized among us, it can be really difficult to prioritize our to-dos and make sure we're getting the highest return on them. In this week's Whiteboard Friday, Rand tackles the question that's a constant subtext in every SEO's mind.
It's no secret that Google keeps a lot of secrets. From keyword data to link data to traffic data (and surely more), there's a lot that we could benefit from — if they'd only share it! Since that's not likely to happen anytime soon, Rand takes us through various ways to access that all-important data in this week's Whiteboard Friday.
16%. That's the percentage of people who read everything you write word-for-word. That number hasn't changed in two decades, which tells us that we've never really learned how to write for the web. In this week's Whiteboard Friday, Dan Petrovic illustrates a new approach to writing for the web to increase reader engagement, and offers some tools and tips to help along the way.
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Outreach. It's the most important part of the link building process—and also the most grueling. Good personalized outreach is impossible to scale, and it's easy to fall into a rut. What can you do to maximize your success rate and to stand out from the crowd? In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand offers up methods of bartering value to earn genuine links, catching your target's attention, and actionable advice on what to include in your outreach correspondence.
In this week's Whiteboard Friday, Rand dives into the topic of republishing and why Google rewards it so much. As an underutilized tactic in SEO and in content creation, republishing should have a place in your strategy; take the time to identify your goals and discover the process that's best for your site.
This week we're chatting about remarketing to people who've already visited your website and then left, or already interacted with your niche, your service, your community, and then gone off somewhere else. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand discusses how to get back in front of folks who have visited your site or engaged with your industry, new options in retargeted ads, and offers some best practices to follow.
A recent Buzzsumo study has us rethinking how flywheel marketing works. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand explains what we got wrong about social shares, and a better way to describe that piece of the flywheel.
In a special Whiteboard Friday filmed for the Turing Festival in Scotland, Rand takes an in-depth look at how to amplify your tools and content to the right audiences.
Licensing your content for republishing on other sites can be a great way to boost your own rankings. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand shows you how, and explains why you shouldn't worry about duplicate content issues when you do.
Through experiments and research, we've learned quite a bit about how Google values things like queries, CTR, and long vs. short clicks. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand shows you specifics, and explains what they mean to you.
Low-quality content. Duplicate content. Pages like those could be harming your entire site's ability to rank, and in today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand helps you get started cleaning house.
Influencers in your industry can serve as megaphones for your content, but you have to earn their attention and appreciation first. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand shows you how.
If you're targeting a certain keyword, knowing where and how often to use that keyword in the various elements of your page is essential. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand offers his recommendation.