Should You Pay for Local Listings Management? Double-Digit Lifts and Customers Say: Yes!

It’s a whale of a question: Does citation management still matter in the grand scheme of local SEO? Our industry has been trying to gauge which way the wind is blowing on this subject for years now, and I’ve been professionally frustrated by a lack of large-scale studies to inform my own take. SEOs live…

5 Simple Tips for SEO & Email Marketing Flywheels

If you haven’t been using email marketing tactics to support your SEO efforts, now is the time to start. In today’s episode of Whiteboard Friday, Cyrus explains how to use the complementary powers of these strategies over and over again, so that each becomes bigger and more powerful the more you do it. Video Transcription Howdy, Moz…

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How to Make Newsworthy Content: Part 2

Content marketing expert Amanda Milligan is back with three more ways to make your content more newsworthy. If you haven’t seen part one, be sure to check it out!  Video Transcription Hi, everyone. Welcome to another edition of Whiteboard Friday. My name is Amanda Milligan, and I am back with part two for how to make…

GMB to GBP: 3 Invitations for Google to Alter Their Indifference towards SMBs

Software dashboards are supposed to feel clean and quiet, organized so that everything you need to do good work is right at hand, like this: Seeing the rebrand of Google My Business to Google Business Profile include the news that single location businesses will no longer enjoy the dignity of a room of one’s own…

Why Getting Indexed by Google is so Difficult

Every website relies on Google to some extent. It’s simple: your pages get indexed by Google, which makes it possible for people to find you. That’s the way things should go. However, that’s not always the case. Many pages never get indexed by Google. If you work with a website, especially a large one, you’ve probably noticed…

How to Measure the Quality of Your SEO Traffic Using Google Analytics

Before you start reading, I’ll forewarn you that this article will start with a tweet and end with a challenge. Sound good? From one of my favorite SEO role models, and founder of Women in Tech SEO, Areej AbuAli:  So, before getting lost in the sauce in the various metrics, it’s important you understand that your…