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9 Reports Every SEO Needs: Introducing Custom Report Templates in Moz Pro

Posted by rachelgooodmanmoore Reporting is central to our jobs as SEOs and helps us to communicate the value of our work to stakeholders and clients alike. Without good reporting, it can be a challenge to illustrate our success in search. We know how important it is — but it can also be painful and clunky. Am I the only one who moderately dreads what we might call “reporting season?” The timing of that season might vary — based on who you work for, what a reporting cycle looks like, and other factors — but ultimately it’s the time of year when we have to get our ducks in a row and report to our stakeholders: not only on the SEO progress that we’ve made, but what that progress equates to in terms of real-world implications. For me, one of the biggest time-black-holes when building reports is the fact that I’m reaching to collect data from disparate sources to paint a full picture of my SEO work. I find myself grabbing screenshots from various tools, pulling them into a template that ...

The Content Distribution Playbook - Whiteboard Friday

Posted by rosssimmonds If you're one of the many marketers that shares your content on Facebook, Twitter, and Linked before calling it good and moving on, this Whiteboard Friday is for you. In a super actionable follow-up to his MozCon 2019 presentation , Ross Simmonds reveals how to go beyond the mediocre when it comes to your content distribution plan, reaching new audiences in just the right place at the right time. Click on the whiteboard image above to open a high resolution version in a new tab! Video Transcription What's going on, Whiteboard Friday fans? My name is Ross Simmonds from Foundation Marketing , and today we're going to be talking about how to develop a content distribution playbook that will drive meaningful and measurable results for your business.  What is content distribution and why does it matter? First and foremost, content distribution is the thing that you need to be thinking about if you want to combat the fact that i t is becomin...

Building a Local Marketing Strategy for Franchises [Guide Sneak Peek]

Posted by MiriamEllis A roller is a good tool for painting a house in big, broad strokes. But creating a masterpiece of art requires finer brushes. Franchises face a unique challenge here: they know how to market at the national level, but often lack the detailed tools for reaching their local customers at a granular level. Google has stated that localization of search results is the greatest form of personalization they currently engage in. For franchises, where local sensitivity is lacking in the marketing plan, opportunity is being lost. Don’t settle for this. Know that less-motivated competitors are losing this opportunity, too. This creates a large, blank canvas for a franchise you’re marketing to paint a new picture which takes state, regional and community nuances into account. One famous example of localized marketing is McDonald’s offering SPAM in Hawaii and green chile cheeseburgers in New Mexico. For your franchise, it could revolve around customizing content for region...

The Marketing Tactics People Love (And Love to Hate) [Exclusive Survey]

Posted by amandamilligan I’ve always considered the most challenging part about digital marketing to be prioritizing. There are hundreds of tactics available to you, and it can be overwhelming to determine which of them are most appropriate for your marketing goals and your target audience. (And we all know what happens when you try to do too much — you do it all poorly.) It’s critical to analyze the attitudes and behaviors of your current and potential clients/customers in order to best communicate with them in the methods they prefer. But every now and then, it’s also helpful to zoom out and see how different marketing tactics are faring in general. That’s why we surveyed 500+ Americans, asking them their thoughts on a variety of inbound and outbound marketing tactics. Our objective was to better understand which tactics might be most effective on a broad scale and how people might feel about the various tactics they encounter. Here are the biggest insights. 1. Very few chann...

What Is BERT? - Whiteboard Friday

Posted by BritneyMuller There's a lot of hype and misinformation about the new Google algorithm update. What actually  is BERT, how does it work, and why does it matter to our work as SEOs? Join our own machine learning and natural language processing expert Britney Muller as she breaks down exactly what BERT is and what it means for the search industry. Click on the whiteboard image above to open a high-resolution version in a new tab! Video Transcription Hey, Moz fans. Welcome to another edition of Whiteboard Friday. Today we are talking about all things BERT and I'm super excited to attempt to really break this down for everyone. I don't claim to be a BERT expert. I have just done lots and lots of research. I've been able to interview some experts in the field and my goal is to try to be a catalyst for this information to be a little bit easier to understand.  There is a ton of commotion going on right now in the industry about you can't optimize fo...

Finding Ideas for a Video Series or Podcast - Whiteboard Friday

Posted by PhilNottingham Video and podcasts are only growing in popularity, proving to be an engaging way to reach your audience and find ways to talk about your industry or product. But it's a crowded market out there, and finding a good idea is only half the battle. Join video marketing extraordinaire Phil Nottingham from Wistia as he explores how we can both uncover great ideas for a podcast or video series  and follow through on them in this week's episode of Whiteboard Friday. Click on the whiteboard image above to open a high resolution version in a new tab! Video Transcription Howdy, Moz fans. My name is Phil Nottingham, and welcome to another edition of Whiteboard Friday. Today we're going to talk about how to come up with a great idea for your video series or podcast. I think a lot of businesses out there understand that there's just this great opportunity now to do a longer form series, a show in podcast or video form, but really struggle with tha...

This Is What Happens When You Accidentally De-Index Your Site from Google

Posted by Jeff_Baker Does reading that title give you a mini-panic attack? Having gone through exactly as the title suggests, I can guarantee your anxiety is fully warranted. If you care to relive my nightmare with me — perhaps as equal parts catharsis and SEO study — we will walk through the events chronologically. Are you ready? August 4th, 2019 It was a Sunday morning. I was drinking my coffee and screwing around in our SEO tools, like normal, not expecting a damned thing. Then … BAM! What. The. Hell? As SEOs, we’re all used to seeing natural fluctuations in rankings. Fluctuations, not disappearances. Step 1: Denial Immediately my mind goes to one place: it’s a mistake. So I jumped into some other tools to confirm whether or not Ahrefs was losing its mind. Google Analytics also showed a corresponding drop in traffic, confirming something was definitely up. So as an SEO, I naturally assumed the worst… Step 2: Algo panic Algorithm update. Please, please don’t let it be...