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.
Going Beyond Google: Are Search Engines Ready for JavaScript Crawling & Indexing?
We have proof via experimentation that Google doesn't index all JavaScript-rich content, but what about its competitors? Can other search engines compete?
How to Determine if a Page is "Low Quality" in Google's Eyes
What makes a page high or low quality? How can you easily filter pages on your site to determine which pages are of high importance, which need work, and which are just plain bad? Check out the answers in this edition of Whiteboard Friday.
SEO Above the Funnel: Getting More Traffic When You Can’t Rank Any Higher
What do you do when you've hit the ranking ceiling? It's important to continue to grow your site traffic, but it can feel like a dead end once you're already at #1. Tom Capper shares some tactics for growing your audience beyond those awesome rankings.
Google (Almost Certainly) Has an Organic Quality Score (Or Something a Lot Like It) that SEOs Need to Optimize For
Imagine Google assigned a quality score to organic search results based off of click data and engagement metrics, and that it would function similarly to the Google AdWords quality score. How might such a score work and how could you optimize for it?
Overcoming Corporate Roadblocks for Enterprise SEO Efficacy
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Optimizing Sites for Featured Snippets with Q&A Content [Case Study]
Learn how to capture featured snippet opportunities (along with increased traffic and conversions) using question-and-answer format content by emulating this case study.
Is the New, Most Powerful Ranking Factor "Searcher Task Accomplishment?"
There's a new ranking factor in town, and it's one that will affect almost every aspect of your site optimization. Check out why searcher task accomplishment is such a big deal in today's Whiteboard Friday.
SEO Best Practices for Canonical URLs + the Rel=Canonical Tag
[Canonical SEO] Learn Google SEO best practices by how to properly implement the CANONICAL URL TAG. Learn about rel=canonical, where it's necessary and appropriate, and the pitfalls you should avoid at all costs.
Realigning Your SEO Strategy When Business Needs Change
When your business strategy pivots to target a new audience, your SEO strategy needs to follow suit. Roy Hinkis shares four quick tips on how to pivot your SEO strategy on a dime, positioning yourself to earn relevant traffic and higher rankings.
Mission SEO Impossible: Rank a Single Brand Website for a Broad, Plural Search Query with Comparative Intent
It's not impossible to compete with comparison sites in the SERPs. In this Whiteboard Friday, Rand tackles one of the toughest ranking issues in SEO: capturing those broad plural search queries with comparative intent.