Whiteboard Friday
Howdy Moz fans! Welcome to Whiteboard Friday, the longest-running and most popular SEO video series. Featuring industry experts as guest hosts who share their hands-on SEO experience working with agencies, businesses, and consultancies. Each weekly episode delivers actionable SEO training to help you advance your career and master digital marketing.
Browse our curated favorites or check out the latest episodes below to stay on top of SEO best practices.
Brand Entity and SEO : Learn how to transform your brand from a digital unknown into a recognized entity in Google's Knowledge Graph.
The Value of SEO Beyond Traffic and Leads : Discover why SEO should be viewed as your website's foundation rather than a set-and-forget tactic, and learn to communicate its full business impact.
Top SEO Tips for 2025 : Chima shares essential strategies for navigating SEO in an AI-driven landscape, helping you adapt and thrive in this transformative year.
Are Links Losing Value in Google's Algorithm?
The value of links in Google's algorithm has been the subject of much debate. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand clarifies two of the most compelling arguments and offers SEOs his advice on how to treat links as we move forward.
6 Ways to Earn Higher Rankings Without Investing in Content Creation and Marketing
Content is certainly important, but we have to remember all the other tools we have for improving our rankings. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand covers six great methods that don't even involve content marketing.
The Best Way to Suck at Marketing
Customers are people, not transactions, and we should all treat them accordingly. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand details the problem and what we can do to solve it.
Handling User-Generated & Manufacturer-Required Duplicate Content Across Large Numbers of URLs
Some marketers, especially those working with e-commerce sites, are forced to deal with content like product descriptions and reviews; things that aren't unique. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand offers tips for those marketers to avoid being penalized for their work.
How to Earn the Amplification of Influencers
Influencers can afford marketers the ability to reach huge audiences they wouldn't otherwise have been able to, but they're very picky about what they choose to share. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand shares a simple equation to help you win them over.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
Why Guest Posting and Blogging is a Slippery Slope
It takes quite a bit of effort to create genuinely high-quality guest posts, and many marketers are tempted to find ways to automate the process. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand clears up some misconceptions that can lead marketers down that slippery slope.
My Client Won't Do
We've all had clients (or bosses, etc.) who were tough to please or asked what seemed like too much of us. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Wil Reynolds offers up a boatload of techniques and tools to win their favor and support without lots of resources.
What Should I Put on the Homepage?
As marketers and search engines continue to get better at understanding what people are looking for, the purpose of a site's homepage has shifted. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand details some of those shifts and shows us what a truly effective homepage looks like today.
The IdeaGraph
Search engines are increasingly referring to random affinities — links between seemingly unrelated concepts — to serve you the most interesting and relevant results. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Ian Lurie shows us how we can use those hidden relationships to our advantage.
Building SEO-Focused Pages to Serve Topics & People Rather than Keywords & Rankings
With Google getting better and better at recognizing the true relevancy of pages, we can't stay focused on keywords. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand explains how focusing on the right topics and being relevant to the right people can drive more valuable traffic than simply ranking for keywords.