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Posted by Kristina Kledzik

As a human being currently using the internet, you have opinions about online user experience. The problem is, everyone's experience is going to be different based on their expectations. So although you, as a Moz blog reader and probably an internet connoisseur, may have some very good ideas about making your company's or client's site easier to use for the majority of visitors, there's a good chance that your boss or client will disagree with you. 

Inspired by Groupon deindexing itself from Google and finding 60 percent of their direct traffic was actually organic search, Conductor reveals data showing that organic search is actually responsible for driving 64 percent of traffic to websites.

How does Google's Panda algorithm work? No doubt things have changed since the Panda patent was written, but it provides some valuable insight in URL- and group-level ranking factors to consider, and how to avoid and overcome Google's Panda.

Posted by randfish

We all know that keywords and links alone no longer cut it as a holistic SEO strategy. But there's still plenty outside our field who try to "boil SEO down" to a naively simplistic practice - one that isn't representative of what SEOs need to do to succeed. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand champions the art and science of SEO and offers insight into how very broad the field really is.

For reference, here's a still of this week's whiteboard!

Posted by Greg_Gifford

If you work in the SEO industry, you need to understand how to do Local SEO. Seriously.. I'm not kidding here... If you're sitting there thinking "Um, no... not really" - then you're exactly the person I'm writing this post for.

First page listing on Google for the phrase “SEO”. Free to deserving candidate. One careful owner. Over the next few months, Majestic will be migrating their brand from Majestic SEO to Majestic, and importantly we will also be migrating our website over to Majestic.com. That will undoubtedly mean an opening will become available in the […]

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Posted by MarkTraphagen

On June 25, 2014, Google's John Mueller made a
shocking announcement: Google would be removing all author photos from Google search results. According to the MozCast Feature Graph, that task was fully accomplished by June 29.

In this post I will:

Posted by Casey_Meraz

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.

As a small business owner you need to consider one simple but very important fact. When people perform a search in a major search engine for your products or services only one of two outcomes is possible: they will find your website, or they will find your competitors.

Posted by Dr-Pete

Having built an online business during the dot-com boom and bust, I’ve always been a bit skeptical about the mobile revolution. Every year since the late 90s, we’ve heard that this would be “The Year” for mobile. In the past year, though, my skepticism has been challenged by a wide range of data, and I no longer believe that the mobile web is simply a miniature desktop. This post is an in-depth analysis of why I think online marketers need to start paying attention to mobile now.

Google’s “Mobile First” Shift