Advanced SEO
What do you do after you've mastered Moz's SEO starter guide? The answer may be Advanced SEO.
Advanced SEO is simply any set of SEO techniques that require some degree of expert knowledge. It varies from person to person, but let's just say you probably won't master these in your first few months.
Advanced SEO typically involves technical concepts that are somewhat advanced, and/or a deeper understanding of the workings of Google's algorithm and are often employed by Professional SEOs. Anyone can master advanced concepts with the right strategic guidance and real life application.
Here, we've listed some of our favorite resources on advanced SEO, and you'll find the most recent blog posts below.
Professional’s Guide to SEO : Professional SEO strategy all in one place, with chapters written by SEO experts, including Pete Meyers and Tom Capper.
Advanced SEO Strategy : Your SEO is only as good as the strategy you've set. Learn how to craft a next-level SEO strategy that will work for your business and goals.
Working in SEO : What does it mean to work in SEO? Learn more about the skills you need to advance your SEO career with this final chapter of the Professional’s Guide to SEO.
20 SEOs Share Their Key Takeaways From the Google API Leaks : Discover expert insights from the recent Google API documentation leak with actionable strategies to help you become a better SEO strategist.
New Opportunities for Image SEO: How to Leverage Machine Vision for Strategic Wins
Images are driving more traffic than ever before. What are some tools you can leverage to better optimize your image SEO and capitalize on the opportunity?
E-A-T and the Quality Raters' Guidelines
EAT — also known as Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness — is a big deal when it comes to Google's algorithms. But what exactly does this acronym entail, and why does it matter to your everyday work? In this bite-sized version of her full MozCon 2019 presentation, Marie Haynes describes exactly what E-A-T means and how it could have a make-or-break effect on your site.
The Data You’re Using to Calculate CTR is Wrong and Here’s Why
GSC is an imperfect tool, but it gives SEOs the best information we have to understand an individual site's click performance in the SERPs.
Goodbye, Generic SEO Audit – Say Hello to Customization & Prioritization
Though an SEO audit is essentially a checklist, it's important to both customize your approach and prioritize your fixes to be efficient and effective with your time and effort. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Kameron Jenkins shares a better way of improving your site.
FAQ, HowTo, and Q&A: Using New Schema Types to Create Interactive Rich Results
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Case Study: How a Media Company Grew 400% and Used SEO to Get Acquired
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Spying On Google: 5 Ways to Use Log File Analysis To Reveal Invaluable SEO Insights
Most SEO Professionals have never used Log File Analysis, but without it, they are missing out on unique and invaluable insights that regular crawling tools just can’t produce.
The Real Impact of Mobile-First Indexing & The Importance of Fraggles
While SEOs have been doubling-down on content and quality signals for their websites, Google was building the foundation of a new reality for crawling — indexing and ranking.
Did Google's Site Diversity Update Live Up to its Promise?
Deep dive into Google's site diversity update. Across 10,000 keywords, SERPs with 3-5 organic results from one site improved marginally. There was no improvement in SERPs with 6-10 results from a single site.
5 Ways You Might Mess up When Running SEO Split Tests
SEO split testing is a relatively new concept, but it’s becoming an essential tool for any SEO who wants to call themselves data-driven. People have been familiar with A/B testing in the context of Conversion Rate Optimisation (CRO) for a long time, and applying those concepts to SEO is a logical next step if you want to be confident that what you’re spending your time on is actually going...