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If a client’s website isn’t ranking as well as it should be after 90 to 120 days of work, the issue could be the backlinks.

Now, under the cloak of "privacy regulations," GWT shows only the search traffic for people that weren’t logged into any Google account.

Posted by Casey_Meraz Let's face it: Local link building is hard. Even if you have the budget and resources needed to earn or build links it will take time. Having a strong link profile is essential to your website's success in search engines. If you're new to link building and want to develop a more in-depth understanding, check out this great resource from MOZ on link building here . In this guide we will look at 11 practical ways you can start earning links for your local business, which will make an impact on your bottom line today. Who should care about local link building? When I talk about local link building I don't mean that these links are for local businesses exclusively. If you're trying to boost the authority of your website, one good way is to get links from locally relevant sources. This guide is for all types of businesses who want to increase their site's link authority. Since local business types vary from fast food ...

The Google Analytics Cohort Analysis can be extremely useful in helping SEOs prove the value of new customer acquisition via organic search, show how they engaged with the site, and surface when they ended up converting over time.

If you do things in a very specific order and double-check each aspect prior to launch, you can avoid a ton of headaches and losses in rankings during a site redesign.

Posted by jaredgardner This post was originally in YouMoz , and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author's views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of Moz, Inc. A few months back, my agency started seeing a referral traffic spike in our Google Analytics account. At first, I got excited. Someone is linking to us and people are clicking. Hooray! Wrong! How very, very wrong. As I dug deeper, I saw that most of this referral traffic was sent from spammers, and mostly from one spammer named Vitaly Popov (or, as I like to call him, “the most recent pain in my ass”). The domains he owns have been giving our company’s site and most of our clients’ sites a few hundred sessions per month, enough to throw off the analytics data in many cases. His sites aren’t the only ones I’ll cover in this how-to, but his spam network has been the biggest nuisance lately. If you’re getting spam referrers in your a...

SEO red flags can be hard to spot initially, but if you know what to look for, you should have no problem detecting them and taking corrective action immediately.

Posted by Ben.Austin This post was originally in YouMoz , and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author's views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of Moz, Inc. For too many online companies the About Us page is the elephant in the room, and often the most awkward thing to write. It's a shame because analytics often shows the page as one of the most frequented on any website. Imagine a ceremonial elephant adorned in his embellished head plate, raising you above your competitors. This could be your About Us page if you show it the care and attention it deserves. The good news is your about page doesn't require several hundred pounds of vegetation on a daily basis, nor is there any real need for expensive antique rhinestones. The bad news is crafting the perfect about page is easier said than done. Many find it difficult to strike the right balance between selling themselves to their cus...

Posted by randfish How much does the context of a link really matter? In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand looks at on- and off-topic links to uncover what packs the greatest SEO punch and shares what you should be looking for when building a high-quality link. For reference, here's a still of this week's whiteboard! Video Transcription Howdy, Moz fans, and welcome to another edition of Whiteboard Friday. This week we're going to chat a little bit about on-topic and off-topic links. One of the questions and one of the topics that you see discussed all the time in the SEO world is: Do on-topic links matter more than off-topic links? By on topic, people generally mean they come from sites and pages that are on the same or very similar subject matter to the site or page that I'm trying to get the link to. It sort of makes intuitive sense to us that Google would care somewhat about this, that they would say, "Oh, well, here'...

You still need to test to make sure you get better results, but studying landing pages from leaders in different industries can shortcut your A/B testing and design process.

Marketers have ample time to prepare for Google's next mobile update, so are you doing everything you should be?

Posted by randfish Imagine a world where even the high-up Google engineers don't know what's in the ranking algorithm. We may be moving in that direction. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand explores and explains the concepts of deep learning and machine learning, drawing us a picture of how they could impact our work as SEOs. For reference, here's a still of this week's whiteboard! Video transcription Howdy, Moz fans, and welcome to another edition of Whiteboard Friday. This week we are going to take a peek into Google's future and look at what it could mean as Google advances their machine learning and deep learning capabilities. I know these sound like big, fancy, important words. They're not actually that tough of topics to understand. In fact, they're simplistic enough that even a lot of technology firms like Moz do some level of machine learning. We don't do anything with deep learning and a lot of neural networks. We ...

Google launches an AdWords app for Android that is now available in the Play store.

Posted by Cyrus-Shepard We're very excited to announce the 2015 Online Marketing Industry Survey is ready. This is the fifth edition of the survey, which started in 2008 as the SEO Industry Survey, and has also been known as the Moz Industry Survey. Some of what we hope to learn and share: Demographics : Who is practicing inbound marketing and SEO today? Where do we work and live? Agencies vs. in-house vs. other : How are agencies growing? What's the average size? Who is doing inbound marketing on their own? Tactics and strategies : What's working for people today? How have strategies and tactics evolved? Tools and technology : What are marketers using to discover opportunities, promote themselves, and measure the results? Budget and spending : What tools and platforms are marketers investing in? This year's survey was redesigned to be easier and only take less than 10 minutes. When the results are in we'll share the data freely with you and ...

Google’s App Indexing API will change the conversation about what true app SEO is and how it will evolve.

This post originally appeared on Agency Post . To read more content like this, subscribe to Agency Post . Millennials. Generation Z. The two groups comprise the most coveted set of consumers. They are future clients and customers, and they will determine if a brand lasts or lags behind. But they are a confusing group -- to brands (and their parents).