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How to Target Featured Snippet Opportunities - Whiteboard Friday

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Posted by BritneyMuller Once you've identified where the opportunity to nab a featured snippet lies, how do you go about targeting it? Part One of our "Featured Snippet Opportunities" series focused on how to discover places where you may be able to win a snippet, but today we're focusing on how to actually make changes that'll help you do that. Give a warm, Mozzy welcome to Britney as she shares pro tips and examples of how we've been able to snag our own snippets using her methodology. Click on the whiteboard image above to open a high-resolution version in a new tab! Video Transcription Today, we are going over targeting featured snippets, Part 2 of our featured snippets series . Super excited to dive into this. What's a featured snippet? For those of you that need a little brush-up, what's a featured snippet? Let's say you do a search for something like, "Are pigs smarter than dogs?" You're going to see an answer box t

Just How Much is Your Website Worth, Anyhow? An Easy Guide to Valuation

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Posted by efgreg We all work hard building our businesses. We put in the sweat equity and all the tears that can come with it to build something truly great. After another day hustling at the office or typing furiously on your keyboard, you might be wondering… what is the end game here? What are you really going for? Is there a glowing neon sign with the word “Exit” marking the path to your ultimate goal? For the majority of businesses, the end goal is to eventually sell that business to another entrepreneur who wants to take the reins and simply enjoy the profits from the sale. Alas, most of us don’t even know what our business is worth, much less how to go about selling it — or if it's even sellable to begin with. That's where Empire Flippers comes in. We've been brokering deals for years in the online business space, serving a quiet but hungry group of investors who are looking to acquire digital assets. The demand for profitable digital assets has been growing so m

Presenting Your Findings: How to Create Relevant and Engaging SEO Reports - Next Level

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Posted by meghanpahinui Welcome to the newest installment of our educational Next Level series! Our last episodes covered how to transform low-value content and how to track the right keywords for your local business . Today, Meghan is here to share all the juicy details to include in a truly persuasive SEO report for your clients and how you can create your own with Moz Pro. Read on and level up! When it comes to creating useful SEO reports for clients and members of your team, it can be tough to balance the best, most relevant information to include with what they actually want to see. Essentially, you should show your clients that what you’re doing is working and getting results that positively impact their business. That being said, though, you’ll need to ask yourself what they consider progress: Are they trying to generate more traffic to their site? Increase overall sales? Improve their rankings? Are they hoping to start ranking for a specific set of keywords or break

The Campaign Comeback: What to Do When Content Fails - Whiteboard Friday

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Posted by Shannon-McGuirk We've all been there: you plan, launch, and eagerly await the many returns on a content campaign, only to be disappointed when it falls flat. But all is not lost: there are clever ways to give your failed campaigns a second chance at life and an opportunity to earn the links you missed out on the first time. In today's Whiteboard Friday, we're delighted to welcome guest host Shannon McGuirk as she graciously gives us a five-step plan for breathing new life into a dead content campaign. Click on the whiteboard image above to open a high-resolution version in a new tab! <span id="selection-marker-1" class="redactor-selection-marker"></span> Video Transcription Hi, Moz fans. Welcome to this edition of Whiteboard Friday. My name is Shannon McGuirk. I'm the Head of PR and Content at a UK-based digital marketing agency called Aira . Now, througho

How to Boost Bookings & Conversions with Google Posts: An Interview with Joel Headley

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Posted by MiriamEllis Have you been exploring all the ways you might use Google Posts to set and meet brand goals? Chances are good you’ve heard of Google Posts by now: the micro-blogging Google My Business dashboard feature which instantly populates content to your Knowledge Panel and individual listing. We’re still only months into the release of this fascinating capability, use of which is theorized as having a potential impact on local pack rankings . When I recently listened to Joel Headley describing his incredibly creative use of Google Posts to increase healthcare provider bookings , it’s something I was excited to share with the Moz community here. Joel Headley worked for over a decade on local and web search at Google. He’s now the Director of Local SEO and Marketing at healthcare practice growth platform PatientPop . He’s graciously agreed to chat with me about how his company increased appointment bookings by about 11% for thousands of customer listings via Google P

A Step-by-Step Guide to Setting Up and Growing Your YouTube Presence

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Posted by AnnSmarty When was the last time you saw a video on YouTube? I bet you've seen one today. YouTube is too huge and too popular for marketers to ignore. If you don't have a YouTube channel, now's the time to start one. If you have a channel and you never got it off the ground, now's the time to take action. This article will take you through the process of setting up your YouTube presence, listing steps, tools, and important tips to get you started and moving forward. 1. Define your goals If your goal is to become a YouTube star, you might be a bit late to the party: it's really hard to get noticed these days — too competitive. Stardom will take years of hard work to achieve because of the number of channels users have to choose from. Even back in 2014, when I was reading about YouTube celebrity bloggers , one quote really stood out to me: “We think, if we were coming to YouTube today, it would be too hard. We couldn't do it.” That’s not to say,