Helpful Content Update, don’t do anything yet.

Helpful content … helps people, 8 years ago I had a vision, let’s start interviewing our clients’ customers as they went through our site’s content and our competitors’ sites. While we might only record 8 customers, we always learned things about the customer we NEVER would have and we also had a much better feeling about if our content was “helpful” An algorithm isn’t ever going to tell me if my content is helpful, people will.…

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Google’s Helpful Content Update: Predictions & Hypotheses

Google’s Helpful Content Algorithm Update: Hypotheses from 23 Years of SEO Experience

Google has a new signal for limiting the appearance of low quality / not authoritative content in organic search. This signal seems to focus on content that doesn’t “help.”

That could be everything from a complex topic written by an individual who doesn’t have strong expertise in that topic , but follows outdated “SEO Rules” (Hey have this sophomore intern write up this best CRM guide, make sure to keep it to 1500 words with 1 h1 and 2 h2’s) to GPT-3 generated content – a language model that uses deep learning to auto-generate human-like text.…

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MozCon 2022 Recap #3: Optimize for People and Search Engines

MozCon 2022 Recap #3:

Optimize for People and Search Engines

On the final day of MozCon 2022, the stage was set with day three speakers ready to take on the following breakout themes head-on:


Build a Strong Foundation

Put the Expertise in E-A-T

It’s 2022, are we really still wondering if the Google algorithm is the first and only consideration when crafting SEO strategies?…

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MozCon 2022 Recap #2: Put the User First & Success Will Follow

MozCon 2022 Recap #2:

Put the User First & Success Will Follow

MozCon’s speakers continued the momentum of the first day, giving its in-person and virtual audiences lots of ideas to stew on and action items to implement. We’ve gathered more breakout themes from day two speakers below:

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MozCon 2022 Recap #1: Doing What’s Hard Has the Greatest Impact

MozCon 2022 Recap #1:

Doing What’s Hard Has the Greatest Impact

At MozCon’s first in-person event since 2019, SEOs shared what they’ve learned and how they’ve failed. We’ve compiled the breakout themes from day one speakers below in case you missed it or wanted to relive some of the key highlights:

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Why You Should Outsource SEO Content Writing

TL;DR – Should you have an in-house content team or outsource? Outsourcing content writing to an SEO agency has a host of benefits. Here, we’ll review why it can be more effective to hire an SEO agency for content writing services. There are a lot of decisions to make when running a business, and one […]

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What is Influencer Marketing?

If you had suggested launching an influencer campaign to your marketing department 10 years ago, you likely would have been greeted with blank stares. The word “influencer” wasn’t even officially added to the English dictionary until 2019.

Since the birth of Instagram in 2010, however, influencer marketing has exploded into a popular means of brand expansion and sales generation.…

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Should SEOs Regret Focusing on Featured Snippets?

Remember when Google finagled with their system to make it so that you couldn’t double dip on Featured Snippets/Instant Answers (Get a Featured Snippet and rank on page 1 in 10 blue links). Well, there are a lot of people who have been skeptical about the value of this particular search feature in this new […]

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Designing for Accessibility: Improving User Experience for Everyone

More than 1 BILLION people worldwide have a disability or impairment.

That’s why Seer Interactive and O3 World are teaming up in time for the 10th Anniversary of Global Accessibility Awareness Day on May 20th, 2021 to discuss the importance of accessible design.

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Why killing your content marketing makes the most sense

“Kill your darlings”, yes, I said it! It may sound crazy but will be one of the wisest and most valuable business decisions you made – here’s why

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SEO in 2021: What your organization’s executives and senior leaders must know

Merkle Inc.’s VP Head of SEO, Eryck Dzotsi discusses six key focus areas that senior leaders across organizations must understand about the role of SEO to drive organic search performance

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Advanced guide to creating an editorial calendar that boosts conversions

A six-step guide that will help you create a successful editorial calendar that optimizes quality, team functioning, and helps boost conversions.

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How to use XPath expressions to enhance your SEO and content strategy

How do you streamline research to produce content that addresses customers’ top questions and product concerns? Look no further than XPath Expressions. Catalyst’s Brad McCourt explains how XPath Expressions used in conjuncture with ScreamingFrog can be used to collect insights that fuel expert, authoritative, and trustworthy (E-A-T) content creation.

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Holiday marketing: Get the data that puts you ahead of the competition

Adjust your holiday marketing strategy based on what your competitors are doing to drive clicks. Analyzing keyword-driven traffic for seasonal marketing.

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Winter is coming: How to prepare your content strategy for a COVID-19 winter

Edward Coram-James offers an update on how content marketers can plan their winter content offerings under the looming shadow of a second wave of COVID-19.

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Five content promotion strategies SaaS marketers should implement today

Having a content promotion strategy is essential to build your content marketing success. Try out these five tactics to give your content the boost it deserves.

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Five quick and easy ways to make surveys more effective for content marketing

Putting a survey out there can be daunting but it also presents great opportunities for your business to extract insights from first-party data.

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