How can startups use a B2B network to scale?

B2B network Startups face numerous challenges in the early stages of growth, from limited resources to intense competition. One of the most effective strategies for overcoming these challenges is leveraging a B2B network. By connecting with other businesses, startups can gain access to valuable resources, industry insights, and partnership opportunities that would otherwise take years

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How to Resolve Duplicate Content

So first off, what is duplicate content? Essentially, duplicate content is content that appears in more than one place on the Internet. But this may not be as cut and dry as it seems. Content that is too similar, even if it isn’t identical, may be considered duplicates of one another.  When thinking about duplicate

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20 New York City Adventures for MozCon Attendee

Here are a few recommendations for lunch, dinner, snacks – you name it! All within walking distance of the MozCon venue. Tony DiNapoli’s Family-style Italian  Walk time: 10 minutes | Address: 147 W 43rd StSuggested by: Kolleen Shallcross | Owner | Shallcross Marketing From Kolleen: “For dining in the theatre district, Tony DiNapoli’s is priced right for families and big

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How To Measure Content Revenue and Prove Success

When you pair it with an SEO tool like Moz Pro, you can show how optimising a specific page could lead to increases in traffic, what that traffic would cost to serve, and how much revenue it’s likely to generate. This makes conversations with non-SEO stakeholders clearer and more persuasive. Prioritize work Once you’ve classified pages

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Ways Community Can Help Your SEO

So I’ve heard a lot of folks kind of starting down here and saying, “Community is really important. This is something we have to get off the ground for our business.” And I’m not quite sure that’s always, in some cases it is the right way to go, but always the right direction to go. 

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How To Speak the Language of Your Top SEO Stakeholders

So step one to communicating really effectively with your senior SEO stakeholders is identifying the outcomes that matter to them. That’s the goals, the things that they’re being tasked with, the stuff that they are having to talk to their stakeholders about every day. These are the initiatives and goals that you’ve heard spoken about

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How to Speed up Content With AI

Point two is citations. These pieces of content are still getting cited in AI Overviews or in ChatGPT. They still sometimes provide the source from where they got the information. Okay, the clicks are a tenth, if not more, than what you used to get. But if someone is going to get it, at least

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5 Overlooked BOFU Formats That Convert [Free Checklists & Frameworks]

Step 1: Understand your buyer’s intent and awareness level  Before deciding which content formats to create, consider: The stakeholder’s role in the buying process Evaluation criteria Familiarity with your product and solutions BoFu decisions usually involve multiple stakeholders with different levels of awareness and evaluation criteria. Choose content formats that speak directly to their needs.

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What Is AI Mode? – Moz

So key points, as I say, it’s a tab like News and like those other things.  Unlike News and like those other things, it doesn’t get broken out unfortunately in Google Search Console. It’s just lumped in with regular search. You can filter out News, you can filter out Image search in Search Console. You

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Should We Optimize for AI Mode?

Now I am going to come over here and talk about best practices that we should be doing.  And I use the word “best practices” because AI Mode should be a result of all the other great things you’ve been doing in your SEO strategy. It shouldn’t be the entirety of your strategy.  Publish like

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The Biggest Lessons I Learned From the HCU So Far

Unlike previous updates where we might see evidence of some degree of reversal afterward, HC stands out as one factor that shows no mercy. In short, there are no easy fixes. Reversing a damaged site from an HC update is not straightforward and requires significant effort, depending on the site size and the time Google

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Are AI Overviews Worth Pursuing?

When it comes to making strategic decisions about your content strategy, it pays to consider multiple factors and data points before making any drastic changes. And although I hate to be a cliche, the classic answer to whether you should change your strategy based on the presence of AIOs really is: It depends. The reality

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How To Adjust Your Content Strategy for Google’s AI Mode

Here are some tips to make your content retrieval-ready: Ensure every section can stand on its own because the AI may lift it without the surrounding context Use clear, descriptive headings that act as signposts Include bullet points and numbered lists—they’re ideal for summaries and direct answers Add tables to show comparisons (like pros and

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What I Learned From Analyzing Google’s AI Mode Patent

If you’re not familiar with embeddings, think of them as mathematical representations of meaning. Instead of storing your literal search history, Google converts your behavior into numbers that capture relationships between concepts.  Basically, it’s search history as vector math. This is a direct application of semantic search, and it’s not brand new. Folks like Dan Hinckley

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5 AI-Powered Workflows Every SEO Should Be Using Today

The result was a fleet of intelligent SEO agents powered by Moz’s trusted API data and Relevance AI’s flexible and powerful platform. From content refresh recommendations to backlink prospecting workflows, we created solutions that automate manual tasks, initiate research tasks in the background, and provide a strategic output that can propel your marketing efforts to

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How to Communicate Site Migration to Clients

So, once you realize there is some migration going on, here are some questions to ask. So first, a timeline. When is the launch date? That’s the most important thing. And how much time do you have to prepare for the site migration? You will need to ask the reason for migration. So is it

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The Accessibility Advantage in SEO

The key thing to remember is that small changes do make a big difference, and steady progress is far more important than perfection.  It’s easy to get started, but here are a few common pitfalls to watch out for along the way. Common mistakes to avoid Let’s take a look at some common pitfalls to

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Should We Stop Creating Informational Content?

Startups would hit Series B and invest heavily in building content moats with aggressive velocity. I worked with content teams publishing an average of 100 blog posts monthly, with 40-50 writers on payroll. One SaaS company published 1,000 blog posts, and everybody clapped. We wrote case studies about it and called them visionary because they dominated Search

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Re-Designing Your SEO Career – Moz

So another way that is really helpful with stress is to have some techniques. This is a technique I created called BRAVE. So what is it? What does it mean? So B is “breathing.” We underestimate the impact breathing well helps us because when you’re breathing in, you’re energizing, and when you’re breathing out, you

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How To Create an Integrated Strategy That Increases Brand Mentions and Visibility [Mozcon 2025 Speaker Series]

Discoverability no longer happens in one place. It’s earned through repetition across the ecosystem, including social media, influencer content, press coverage, affiliate partnerships, and online communities.  The organic real estate that once fueled brand awareness is shrinking fast, and that affects your ability to get in front of potential customers. The consequences include: Fewer brand

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GA4 Custom Event Tracking for SaaS Without the Headache

Custom event tracking gives you real insight into how users engage with your product, not just that they visited. It helps you understand what’s working, where users drop off, and how to improve their experience. With the right setup, custom events become a reliable tool for optimizing funnels, increasing feature adoption, and supporting smarter decisions

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Say Hello to Your MozCon 2025 Speaker Lineup (So Far!)

This year, MozCon is hittin’ the road to bring you fun and SEO insights. We’re excited to announce that London’s lineup is swiftly taking shape, with six confirmed speakers. Keep scrolling to get a peek at our first round of confirmed speakers for New York below!  We’re hosting two events in two incredible cities, each

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When should you do SEO?

So some examples of businesses I would say probably shouldn’t bother.  Rolls-Royce Aerospace Rolls-Royce Aerospace are actually called Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC, I think technically. So this is a company that sells small nuclear reactors and jet engines. I would say that when governments, militaries, whoever else wants to buy this kind of thing, they’re probably

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SEO Topic Clusters: Complete Guide, Examples & Free Templates

Create multi-format content Most teams stop at blog posts, and that’s a big mistake. The brands that own the SERPs, like HubSpot, Monday.com, and Salesforce, build topic clusters beyond the blog. They include webinars, videos, social content, and more.  Diversifying formats helps them show up across every stage of the buyer journey. To do the

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Actionable AI — Whiteboard Friday

And what I always encourage beginners to experiment with is get a Proof of Concept. Just see if these different tools are capable of doing the thing that you want them to do. So for example, go straight to ChatGPT, go straight to Gemini, go straight to the source, get that Proof of Concept, and

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How To Find A Competitor’s Keywords — Next Level

Before we can identify the keywords our competitors are ranking for, we have to first identify who our competitors are in the first place. When investigating who you’re competing against for space in the SERP, be sure to consider the following. 1. Your online competitors may be different than your “real life” competitors This may

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Content Churn in Google Doubled Over Five Years

Note the steady climb until Q3 (July) of 2023, with a precipitous drop into Q4 of 2023, followed by another, faster climb to current highs. Summer of 2023 was a period of historically high ranking flux, culminating in an August Core Update, September Helpful Content Update, and October Spam Update. It’s difficult to separate signal from

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6 Ways To Use AI To Scale Content Marketing With a Lean Team

This step is essential; without it, Copilot won’t scan the page properly or provide an accurate summary​. Review skills, recommendations, and certifications Copilot will highlight key details, including: Professional skills Endorsements and recommendations Certifications and memberships Interests and affiliations It generates a snapshot of your professional background, making it easier to build a concise and

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How To Use LLMs for Competitive Research and Gap Analysis

Collect competitor URLs using Moz Site Crawl or a sitemap export. Next, import the URLs into Google Sheets and apply the same GPT formula used for your site.  =GPT(“Based on the string provided, assign it to one of these themes: ‘Dog Health’, ‘Dog Recipes’, ‘Dog Behavior’, ‘Dog Breed’, ‘Seasonality/Events’, ‘OTHER’, Use the examples as a guide but

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8 Free AI Writing Tools To Speed Up Your Content Creation Process

Perplexity AI is an intelligent research assistant that delivers accurate results with cited sources, prompts, and follow-up questions. It remembers past interactions for a more intuitive experience, making it a powerful tool for writers, marketers, and researchers looking to streamline content creation. Key features of Perplexity AI Some features of Perplexity AI include: Accurate web

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What is Index Bloat? — Whiteboard Friday

So in both of these cases, you can generate this very large number of URLs that are getting basically no traffic. So what might we actually do about this or decide whether we want to do something about this?  1. Identify URLs with almost no traffic So the first step I would take is identify

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5 Tips to Increase Your Website Conversion Rate

How I use AI for conversion optimization First, you need to give AI a webpage for analysis  You can copy and paste the text below into an AI tool for a quick messaging review. Alternatively, you can also take a full-page screenshot  (using tools like Snagit) and upload it alongside an audit prompt.  This allows the

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How to Pitch To Speak at MozCon 2025

I encourage you to wear your empathy hat and think about the biggest problems digital marketers and SEOs face today. A few topics we’re interested in include: SERP volatility and AI search features eroding organic traffic Search results are more unpredictable than ever, with AI search features impacting clicks. If you’ve found a strategy to

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How to Find Profitable Keywords For Your Niche

While high-volume keywords may seem appetizing, it doesn’t always yield meaningful returns. The initial psychological response to seeing high-volume keywords in your niche may whet your appetite, but it’s important to be pragmatic and avoid exercises in marketing futility.  High-volume keywords likely fall into one of the following buckets: Informational queries: Stiff competition from Wikipedia,

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Your Fast Track to Mastering Keyword Gap Analysis

Based on our depth of experience in keyword research, we’ve developed four perspectives to give you a bird’s eye view of the competitive landscape … (i) Keywords to improve This is the default view, which shows you keywords for which you already rank (in the top 20 results) but your competitors outrank you. You can

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12 Client Onboarding Tools To Scale Your SEO Agency

In SEO, results take time. Hence, it is important to keep clients informed and engaged during onboarding to retain them. GUIDEcx makes this easy with a customer-facing dashboard that provides real-time project visibility. With in-app collaboration, you can share updates, assign tasks, and gather feedback in one place.  Pro Tip: Use GUIDEcx’s task assignment feature to break

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Ziff Davis’s Study Reveals That LLMs Favor High DA Websites

While Moz’s Domain Authority (DA) isn’t a ranking factor, the Ziff Davis study confirms it’s a strong directional indicator of site authority, which aligns with the high-quality sources favored in LLM training​. In a Moz roundup on the Google Leaks, Rand Fishkin pointed out, “Google has been misleading marketers for years when saying they don’t use any

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How To Manage Old Content on a News Website

This template allows for a nuanced assessment, helping you prioritize which content to retain, update, or remove. Performance benchmarking After scoring is complete and before you remove any content, establish a performance benchmark by measuring key metrics such as: This baseline data lets you compare performance after the removal and assess whether the changes were beneficial,

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Keyword Cannibalization: What it is and How to Fix it

Use Canonical tags Canonical tags are an effective way to resolve keyword cannibalization without removing duplicate pages. They tell search engines which page should be indexed and ranked as the primary page, while keeping other related pages accessible to visitors. Example:Imagine you own an eCommerce website and have multiple pages targeting the keyword “best running

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Top SEO Tips for 2025 — Whiteboard Friday

With the new year underway, you may be wondering what strategies you should implement for maximum SEO success in 2025. Chima’s got you covered! In this week’s episode of Whiteboard Friday, she talks through her six top SEO tips for this year, which include driving brand awareness and diversifying your traffic sources.

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8 Ways To Automate SEO and Content Tasks With LLMs

Here’s how these tools can help: Topic generation: Input a seed keyword or query, and the tool suggests trending topics and relevant angles. For example, you could prompt an LLM to surface questions people ask about remote work tools or trends. Outlining: Title and meta description optimization: Create multiple SEO-optimized variations for title tags and meta descriptions.

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How to Use Chrome to View a Website as Googlebot

Using a dedicated Googlebot browser simplifies technical SEO audits and improves the accuracy of your results. Here’s why: 1. Convenience A dedicated browser saves time and effort by allowing you to quickly emulate Googlebot without relying on multiple tools. Switching user agents in a standard browser extension can be inefficient, especially when auditing sites with inconsistent

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How to Integrate LLMs into Your SEO Workflow

Here’s how to build and use prompt libraries effectively: Create reusable prompts: Identify recurring tasks, such as generating title tags, meta descriptions, or content outlines. Develop prompts that consistently deliver reliable results, using frameworks like the 5Ws and H to maintain clarity. Organize prompts for quick access: Categorize prompts by task type (e.g., content creation, technical SEO, competitive

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5 Reasons Your Direct Traffic Can Suddenly Drop

If one channel shows a drop, but the others hold up, usually you suspect something went wrong with that channel. Perhaps your organic traffic was negatively affected by an algorithm update, for example. However, when direct traffic drops off a cliff, it’s harder to know where to look. Suppose every channel, including direct traffic, drops.

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How to Use Chrome to View a Website as Googlebot

Using a dedicated Googlebot browser simplifies technical SEO audits and improves the accuracy of your results. Here’s why: 1. Convenience A dedicated browser saves time and effort by allowing you to quickly emulate Googlebot without relying on multiple tools. Switching user agents in a standard browser extension can be inefficient, especially when auditing sites with inconsistent

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The Top Moz Creators of 2024

There are four primary ways we collaborate with external contributors on Moz content The Moz Blog Whiteboard Friday The Practical Marketer webinar series MozPod Contributors are the reason why thousands of people flock to Moz daily to consume high-quality content taken from the POV of experts doing the work. Today, we want to celebrate top

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Site Reputation Abuse: Is Your Website at Risk?

Google’s suggestion that off-topic content might be targeted by the algorithm made a lot of people nervous, and for good reason — “off-topic” is hopelessly (deliberately?) vague. Many sites legitimately cover a wide range of topics, while other sites hyper-target topics now in a way that’s clearly designed to maximize SEO benefits. The danger here

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Announcing the All New Moz Local – Moz

Managing local SEO for your business shouldn’t require juggling multiple tools or endless hours of manual listing management. That’s why we’re thrilled to introduce the all-new Moz Local — your comprehensize platform for location data, reputation, and social media management available now for you to purchase and manage your local business listings!    With the new Moz

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24 Best AI Tools for Developers in 2025

Debugging endless code, racing against deadlines, and juggling clunky tools—sounds like just another day in the life of a developer. And then there’s your boss, who expects you to stay on top of new AI trends because the shinier, the better, right? There had to be a better way to hit those impossible deadlines and

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2025 SEO Trends: Top Predictions from 23 Industry Experts

Caitlin Hathaway — Audience Development at MVF Prediction: I predict that 2025 will be the year brands focus on diversifying content strategies to reduce dependence on Google and safeguard against algorithm volatility. Why it’s important: This past year has shown how risky it is to rely on Google for traffic, as algorithm updates can devastate a brand’s

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21 Top AI Tools for Content Creation in 2025

As a content creator, I spend a lot of time creating videos, graphics, and slides for speaking engagements. It takes up a lot of time, and I’ve found myself increasingly turning to AI tools to cut out the manual work and help me get to the finish line faster. After countless trials, I’ve found a

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Coming Soon: An All-New Moz Local

If you’re an existing Moz Local customer, you may be wondering, “What does this mean for me?” We’ve got you covered.    All existing customers will be automatically updated to the new Moz Local. Once you have access to the new platform, you’ll need to reconnect your Google Business Profile and Facebook accounts. And if

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Accelerate Your SEO Knowledge: New Webinar From Moz

Look, I know it’s tempting to skip the foundational bits of a guide or a course, jump straight into SEO tools, and start implementing changes. After all, time is a hot commodity, right? But without truly understanding the theory, you’ll only scratch the surface of what’s possible. Competitive analysis requires more than just plugging a

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21 Black Friday Marketing Strategies to Maximize Your Profits

Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving in the United States, marks the official start of the holiday shopping season. Traditionally, it was a brick-and-mortar shopping event, with crowds flocking to stores for steep discounts driving holiday sales.  Today, Black Friday (BF) and Cyber Monday (CM) present opportunities for e-commerce brands to increase sales and attract

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How To Create Helpful Content Post-HCU

8. Infuse content with empathy Empathy in content creation means anticipating user needs, guiding them through challenges, and creating a supportive experience. As Roshni Shaikh, a conversion strategist from Cape Agency, says, “Content shouldn’t convey empathy. Empathy comes before content.” How to infuse empathy into your content: Walk in their shoes:  Imagine your potential customer’s

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Brand Entity SEO – Whiteboard Friday

Comprehensive organization schema markup But for Google, you need to go a step further into semantics. Everything you just said about your brand with on-page text, say it again through comprehensive schema markup. This brand-splaining of your entity to Google reconfirms its key attributes and is a critical step to Google accepting that information as

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How Many Keywords Should You Target?

This post expands on something I discussed in my talk at MozCon two years ago: I believe that a lot of time spent on keyword research is essentially wasted. Don’t get me wrong — keyword research is, of course, important. SEOs and businesses use keyword research to decide which parts of their business to prioritize,

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Sign up for the New Moz Affiliate Program today!

Here at Moz, we’re always looking for ways to build our community of like-minded SEO enthusiasts who enjoy the constant challenge and evolution of the search marketing world. Between MozCon, our involvement in various SEO conferences and organizations such as Women in Tech, our large presence on social channels, and our collection of best-in-class content,

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The Helpful Content Update Was Not What You Think

Google has long been a little bit cryptic about major algorithm updates. Way back in 2011, with the launch of the first Panda update, Google said: “This update is designed to reduce rankings for low-quality sites – sites which are low-value add for users, copy content from other websites or sites that are just not

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The Best SEO and Digital Marketing Podcasts in 2024

Of course, it wouldn’t be a list that we endorsed without including our very own MozPod. Relaunched in 2024, produced by me and hosted by Chima Mmeje, MozPod tells the stories of people working in SEO. We interview agency founders, consultants, and SEO practitioners to learn more about their experiences working in SEO in 2024.

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5 Ways SEOs Can Use ChatGPT – Whiteboard Friday

Final way I recommend using ChatGPT for SEO is really creating your custom tools. I think one of the biggest powers is that ChatGPT is going to empower us to be a community of creators and create technical solutions regardless of what our technical background might be. So for example, you could have ChatGPT actually

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Top Local SEO Takeaways From MozCon 2024

Moz’s own Tom Capper gave a fascinating talk on the critical importance of understanding how Google views search intent as a means of informing how we can support customer journeys. Search intent is typically broken down into four categories: informational, navigational, commercial, and transactional. It was very confirming to see that Tom’s research found that

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How I Develop Successful Link Building Strategies for My Clients

Here’s how I approach prospecting: I start by using Google Search operators to find relevant websites. For example, suppose my client’s site is about sports, specifically marathon training. In that case, I might use queries like intitle:marathon training -recovery plan -“injury” to find sites that discuss marathon training but may lack content on post-race recovery

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Optimizing for AI Overviews – Moz

Now, as I mentioned, there are caveats when it comes to optimizing. It is appearing. It’s like the featured snippet where you want to appear in there, but you’re not necessarily going to show up in organic down below. There’s that risk that ifyou mess with your relevance, that might impact your rankings. So the

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How to Close More Sales With Emotion-Driven SEO

When you really dig deep into the fundamentals of SEO, it has everything to do with emotion. Search engines use complex, ever-changing algorithms to make sure they are serving the most relevant and highest-quality results for people’s search queries in the search engine result pages (SERPs). How search engines work is far more nuanced than

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Local Search Developments From Q2 2024

At the outset of today’s column, I referenced the Google leak in passing. If you’d like to hear more commentary on it from a local SEO perspective, here are two excellent conversations to tune into: I find it interesting to reflect that the leak was met with so much speculation, even to the point of

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20 SEOs Share Their Key Takeaways From the Google API Leaks

I can assume that if Google algorithms can tell whether an entity is relevant to a topic, they can also tell when links are topically relevant. I suspect that Google’s algorithm prioritizes links that are contextually aligned with the content of the linking and linked pages. Topical links are trust signals from authoritative websites telling

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How to Build a Strong Brand Moat With SEO

This specific page is a magnet for over 9,500 monthly visitors through organic search, ranking for more than 16,400 keywords, and holds an organic traffic value estimated at $42,400. The cornerstone of Airtable’s success lies in its adept understanding and application of search intent, which fundamentally influences how people use search engines. Airtable’s template page

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Moz AI: Introducing Augmented Intelligence

When ChatGPT captured the public imagination in early 2023, there was a scramble at many companies to launch “AI” features. It was easy to get caught up in the excitement, but sometimes the onslaught of AI tools felt like pyrotechnics at a concert — if the band is lousy, then it’s just light and noise.

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AI Overview’s Dangerous Fails + a Life Lesson

Even if you weren’t born yet in 1980, you may have heard this American pop culture catchphrase stemming from an episode of the wildly popular soap opera Dallas, in which the TV show’s villain was assailed by a mysterious figure. The follow-up episode that revealed the identity of the assassin was the second-highest-rated primetime telecast

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The Future of Content Success Is Social

Here’s a challenge: search “SEO RFP” on Google. Click on the results, and tell me how similar they are. We did the same thing every other SEO does: We asked, “What words are thematically relevant?” Which themes have my competitors missed?” How can I put them in?” AND “How can I do everything just slightly

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March Core Update & Spam Updates: Four Major Trends

At the start of the March Core and Spam updates, Google claimed it intended to reduce unhelpful content in search by 40%. After the conclusion of the March Core Update on April 19 (which Google announced seven days after the fact), Google then clarified that it had actually reduced unhelpful content by 45%. One of

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How to Prepare for an SEO Conference, Including MozCon

So you’ve secured your ticket to an industry event—lucky you! It’s time to gear up and make the most of this experience. Whether you’re attending in person or via a remote-friendly livestream option, preparation is key to getting the most value. Follow these essential steps to maximize your experience and ensure you’re fully equipped for

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Cognitive Biases in SEO – Moz

And it is. SEO action tip Use power words in your titles and meta descriptions. Don’t overdo it, but see if you can sprinkle in words that give off trust signals: Accredited Certified Proven Reputable Secure Experienced Safe Make sure that they’re appropriate for your industry. On a bigger, strategic level, the best thing you

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Google’s Surgical Strike on Reputation Abuse

These aren’t easy questions. On the one hand, many of these sites do clearly fit Google’s warning and were using their authority and reputation to rank content that is low-relevance to the main site and its visitors. With any punitive action, though, the problem is that the sites ranking below the penalized sites may not

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MozCon Field Guide: Exploring Summertime Seattle

Seattle Asian Art Museum Located at Volunteer Park in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle, the Seattle Asian Art Museum is another location of SAM. The featured exhibit, Anida Yoeu Ali: Hybrid Skin, Mythical Presence, will be on display until July 7, 2024. This museum is open Friday through Sunday. Northwest African American Museum Self-described

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Content Strategy for Startups + Roadmap

So, to be able to do this, you can actually conduct content audits for your website if you are an existing startup, and then see if you have any missing points against your competitors or if you have content that is underperforming and you need to update or you need to optimize. Or if you’re

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Leverage BigQuery for Advanced Internal Link Analysis

Prerequisites First, you’ll need a CSV containing all your internal links. At the very least, your file should have a column for the source (origin of the internal link) and a column for the destination (where the link leads). However, if possible, include additional columns for the anchor, status code, and type of link (such

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Elevating Women in SEO for a More Inclusive Industry

Know your value It’s essential for women to recognize their worth and advocate for themselves in the workplace. It’s important to know your value and not be afraid to own it. For a lot of women, myself included, doing this can feel horribly unnatural. It’s often hard to admit that you’re good at things or

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How to Create an Email List and Use It for SEO

Here, there are options to: Spruce up the styling with fonts and colors Control how and when the popup appears Update headlines and text Turn the popup on or off Set an action or goal Change the layout The design process is simple, thanks to these advanced tools. The key, however, is the emphasis on

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Steps for Better Local Business Client Meetings

Download a PDF version of the above checklist for your office or to share with employees to ensure you’re having your best and most productive client meetings. Detailed key to the checklist: 1. Check expectations It’s a momentum dampener when either you or your client arrives at a meeting unprepared or you find yourself staring

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7 Ways SEO and Product Teams Can Collaborate to Ensure Success

Let’s consider the example of developing author pages for a blog. At first glance, this may seem straightforward, but it involves multiple components and collaboration across teams: Page design (UX): The user experience team designs the layout, ensuring it’s intuitive and aligns with the overall site aesthetic. Page coding (developer): Developers turn the design into

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rite AI Content Optimized for E-E-A-T

While AI can produce content en masse, it often lacks the personal touch and depth that E-E-A-T demands. Here are the pitfalls of unguided AI content and how to avoid them. Problem 1: Lack of personal experience AI-generated content often lacks the personal touch and real-world experience that makes high-experience content. It may provide correct

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We Lost a Local SEO Client — How We Solved It

We also set up a completely separate practitioner listing that brought in another 80—90 calls a month without competing at all with the client’s main listing. However, it’s not easy to keep the leads increasing at that same rate forever. Sometimes, having early wins like this can set expectations that things will continue to climb

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Who Should Block AI Bots?

I will make three arguments for leaving your website totally unblocked for AI bots: Present-day traffic acquisition Present-day brand exposure Future developments in LLM-powered tools Present-day traffic acquisition I recently saw Wil Reynolds speak at SMX Munich, and in his talk, he made the powerful case for ChatGPT (or similar tools) as a significant present-day

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Top 4 Skills Marketers Need in the Future

Do you know what good looks like? Building on the example above, a skill set that will become increasingly vital for success is the ability to understand and anticipate consumer tastes and preferences. As markets become more saturated and consumers are bombarded with an endless array of choices, marketers who can tap into the pulse

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Successful Website Migration: Increase in Keyword Rankings

To achieve the desired outcomes, we implemented a comprehensive migration strategy. Our approach involved the following key steps and activities: Kick-off and alignment We initiated the project with a round of introductory calls to understand the brand requirements, goals, and expectations. The discovery call is one of the crucial parts of the process. It allows

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Cope with Fear of Local Business Reviews

Start by taking in these three home truths: 1. You’re not wrong… some people’s online behavior can be anti-social If, like the restaurant owner, you don’t want to look at your local business reviews because it just doesn’t make you feel good, know that you’re not alone in being sometimes appalled by people’s behavior on

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B2B SEO Content: Structured Resource Sections

Content: Blog posts, videos, podcasts, whitepapers, webinars, industry reports, etc. Structure: Tagged by type, solution, audience, author, industry, topic, etc. A catch-all resource section of product news, blog posts, podcasts, case studies, press releases, videos, guides, and white papers has become the norm for B2B software websites. A major advantage to these resource hubs is

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The MozCon 2024 Final Agenda Has Arrived!

7:30am — Registration & breakfast 9:00am — Opening Remarks + State of the Industry Ethan Hayes Moz’s new General Manager will be kicking things off early on the first day with a warm welcome, laying out all the pertinent details of the conference and setting the stage for what’s to come over the two days

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Charting 10 Years of The Google Algorithm

Ultimately, Google’s “weather” isn’t a natural phenomenon — it’s driven by human choices, reactions, and, occasionally, mistakes. Whether the changes are heuristic or machine-driven, they’re all driven by the same core philosophy and business models. SGE is a perfect example. We’re still waiting on a wide rollout, suggesting that Google doesn’t entirely like what they

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Trends in Content Localization – Moz

Multinational fast food chains are one of the best-known examples of recognizing that product menus may sometimes have to change significantly to serve distinct audiences. The above video is just a short run-through of the same business selling smokehouse burgers, kofta, paneer, and rice bowls in an effort to appeal to people in a variety

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Why True Localization Matters – Moz

While globalization has connected the world like never before, successful localization requires more than surface-level translation. By aligning content with nuanced cultural insights, brands can overcome barriers to build authentic multi-local engagement. In marketing, optimal familiarity may relate to the ideal level of brand recognition and consumer exposure to a product or service. Achieving optimal

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Local Search Developments from Q1 2024

How significant? Enough that Near Media needed to produce a visual glossary to help us all understand what the new elements are. Their outlet is doing a great job at tracking the ongoing evolution of what appears to be Google’s response to the requirements of the Digital Markets Act, which went into full effect in

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Future-Proof Your Brand with Brand Familiarity

Choice overload is partially why users choose familiar options, and this is why leveraging familiarity can be a superpower to make your brand stand out in a sea of similar choices. 2. It modulates the way we perceive experiences Familiarity bias is not only a resource optimization process but also a real tool that has

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How Local Businesses Inspire Love, Loyalty, and Friendship

These three common scenarios can stand in the way of earning the love, loyalty, and friendship of your customers. Fortunately, each of them has a solution you can implement to re-open clear pathways to forming genuine relationships: 1. Lack of employee training in company culture and standards damaging customer experience 65% of respondents to Moz’s

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How the SERPs Guide Content — Whiteboard Friday

Next up, we have images, and here, a few different things are happening on the search results. We might see some little tiles of images. They all can have a different size. There’s no clear structure or guideline. Sometimes it looks a bit inspirational, almost like Pinterest type content. What it means for you, if

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E-E-A-T Quick Wins — Whiteboard Friday

So, let’s get into some E-E-A-T quick wins. Use real authors Quick win number one: use real authors. This is fundamental when it comes to E-E-A-T helpful content. Users want to be convinced that the person who’s writing the content actually knows what they’re talking about. So, if you’re not using real authors, that’s a

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Find Your Difficulty Benchmark – Next Level

So you know your Difficulty benchmark, and you’ve compared it to your current list of target keywords to better fortify your strategy. But what if you want to find new keywords to target? Or spot keywords that you may have missed, haven’t thought of, or have been considering exploring? Well, I have a bonus step

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Create a GBP Video with Canva

You’re hearing it everywhere these days that your local business has got to have video to keep up with the times. But if you don’t have a fancy mobile phone with excellent filming capabilities or the technical challenges of making a film seem daunting, you may feel like you’re falling behind. We’re going to get

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Use ChatGPT to Build a Customer Journey

Next we’ll ask about pain points for this specific user journey stage. Think of it as a follow-up question. Let’s choose customized services. We’ll ask ChatGPT, “I want to learn more about this specific motivation. What are the most common pain points for users?” And again, it will respond with a list of pain points,

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Boost Your Traffic in Google Discover

2. Understand topical authority: Keywords vs. entities Google has been talking about topical authority for a long time, and in Discover, it is completely relevant. Traditional SEO includes the use of keywords to position your web pages for a specific search, but the content strategy in Discover should be based on entities, i.e., concepts, characters,

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Execute a Technical Audit + Free Templates for Faster SEO Growth

Strategic: Before delving into the technical audit head-on, consider the following framework shared by Aleyda Solis: Business Type Project Website Size SEO Maturity Goals International E-commerce SEO roadmap for quarterly growth Over 5K pages/Large High Get 5% organic revenue growth since last quarter. Investment Platform SEO support for website migration Over 10k pages/Large High Cohesive

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Create a Decent One-Page Local Business Site

If the community you serve has a local forum, now is the time to become a regular participant there. An apparent outcome of the “hidden gems” component of Google’s Helpful Content update is an uptick in forum-based results in the SERPs, including the local SERPs. As my friends at Near Media describe it: “The boost

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