What Is Keyword Intent and How Does It Impact Your Conversion Rate?

What Is Keyword Intent and How Does It Impact Your Conversion Rate?

What is keyword intent? Keyword intent, also known as search intent or user intent, is the goal behind a person’s search query. When people enter a search term into Google, they typically want to learn something, make a purchase, compare options, or find a specific location. Understanding this intent helps marketers tailor content to match…

How I Found Internal Linking Opportunities With Vector Embeddings

How I Found Internal Linking Opportunities With Vector Embeddings

I felt overwhelmed when I first read Mike King’s article on vector embeddings. The concepts seemed complex, and implementing them for SEO was intimidating. But with Screaming Frog’s new features and Gus Pelogia’s excellent guide, I saw the potential to improve internal link building using this method.Based on the two resources above, I decided to…

The Best SEO and Digital Marketing Podcasts in 2024

The Best SEO and Digital Marketing Podcasts in 2024

What makes a podcast engaging? Podcasts that I’ll return to repeatedly don’t just have decent audio or clear video. They don’t just bring on informed guests and cover topics that intrigue and provide perspective. Although all these things are critical. There is something else that sets them apart, and I think I’ve boiled it down…

Tips for international SEO strategy and reporting — Whiteboard Friday

Tips for international SEO strategy and reporting — Whiteboard Friday

Click on the whiteboard image above to open a high-resolution version!Hi, I’m Tanvir, a technical SEO and reporting lead at Dentsu. And today we’re going to be discussing international SEO from the lens of tech SEO and data. So why is international SEO and targeting important? It’s not only important for our digital marketing KPIs,…

How Pipedrive Increased Organic Sign-Ups by 33% with BOFU Content

How Pipedrive Increased Organic Sign-Ups by 33% with BOFU Content

The author’s views are entirely their own (excluding the unlikely event of hypnosis) and may not always reflect the views of Moz. Pipedrive was already excelling at top- and middle-of-funnel content, building awareness and authority in the sales space. But with Grizzle’s help, they adopted a more balanced strategy by focusing on bottom-of-funnel content to…

Getting Buy-In for Customer Stories — Whiteboard Friday

Getting Buy-In for Customer Stories — Whiteboard Friday

Click on the whiteboard image above to open a high-resolution version! ​​Howdy, Moz fans? On today’s Whiteboard Friday, we’re gonna tackle the toughest question in customer stories, far and away the biggest challenge we saw across 300 plus companies, and that’s getting buy-in to do these things in the first place. How do you get…

Turn Marketing Into Meaningful Relationships — Whiteboard Friday

Turn Marketing Into Meaningful Relationships — Whiteboard Friday

Click on the whiteboard image above to open a high-resolution version! Hey everybody, Navah Hopkins from Optmyzr here, and I am thrilled to bring you a Whiteboard Friday on one of my biggest passion topics — turning your offering into helping people. Because let’s face it, we are people, and we want to be helped.…

The Helpful Content Update Was Not What You Think

The Helpful Content Update Was Not What You Think

Inspired by the Google leaks earlier this year, I’ve had a hypothesis that the HCUs (Helpful Content Updates) — part of Google’s core ranking system since March 2024 — are about something almost completely separate from Google’s messaging, and most SEOs’ tactical understanding. In their original announcement in August 2022, Google wrote that this was…