Whiteboard Friday
Howdy Moz fans! Welcome to Whiteboard Friday, the longest-running and most popular SEO video series. Featuring industry experts as guest hosts who share their hands-on SEO experience working with agencies, businesses, and consultancies. Each weekly episode delivers actionable SEO training to help you advance your career and master digital marketing.
Browse our curated favorites or check out the latest episodes below to stay on top of SEO best practices.
Brand Entity and SEO : Learn how to transform your brand from a digital unknown into a recognized entity in Google's Knowledge Graph.
The Value of SEO Beyond Traffic and Leads : Discover why SEO should be viewed as your website's foundation rather than a set-and-forget tactic, and learn to communicate its full business impact.
Top SEO Tips for 2025 : Chima shares essential strategies for navigating SEO in an AI-driven landscape, helping you adapt and thrive in this transformative year.
The New Link Explorer is Here
Link Explorer may be in beta, but when it comes to your links, it's still a big deal. In this Whiteboard Friday, Rand transparently addresses many of the biggest complaints about OSE over the years and explains the vast improvements Link Explorer provides, from DA scores updated daily to historic link data to a huge index of almost 5 trillion URLs.
Marketing Lessons Learned from 16 Years of Building Moz
Rand's got 16 years of hands-on marketing experience under his belt, and in this Whiteboard Friday, he shares his best advice—from flywheels to product launches to knowing your audience—to help all of us learn from his own trial and error.
The Pro Marketer's Product Launch Checklist for 2018
What goes into a truly great product launch? Rand reveals his best advice in the form of an actionable checklist in this Whiteboard Friday. Make sure to check out the last item—it may be the most important one to start with!
Where Clickbait, Linkbait, and Viral Content Fit in SEO Campaigns
For your clickbait and viral content efforts to bear fruit, they need to be done the right way and used in the right places. Rand discusses what kind of content investments make sense for this type of strategy and explains why it works in this week's Whiteboard Friday.
How to Discover Featured Snippet Opportunities for SEO
Winning featured snippets is competitive, but it's one of the best ways to get visibility on page 1 of Google's SERPs. In this Whiteboard Friday, Britney Muller covers the first three steps you can take toward earning the true top spot on results pages and shares useful tools to help.Level Up Your SEO Skills With Our Free Training
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The #1 Reason Paid Ads (On Search, Social, and Display) Fail
The number-one reason most paid ad campaigns fail: you're a stranger to your audience. In this Whiteboard Friday, learn exactly what signals the death knell of a PPC campaign, and solutions to ensure your ads are worth the money you pour into them.
How (and Whether) to Invest in and Structure Online Communities
Should you put time and effort into building a vibrant online community? What are the benefits from a brand, SEO, and content marketing perspective? In this edition of Whiteboard Friday, Rand answers all your questions about investing in and structuring an online community, including whether it's worth your time.
Using the Cross Domain Rel=Canonical to Maximize the SEO Value of Cross-Posted Content
Same content, different domains? There's a tag for that. Rel=canonical can inform Google that the same content exists on multiple sites. Rand covers how to use it properly and what to keep in mind in this edition of Whiteboard Friday.
Diagnosing Why a Site's Set of Pages May Be Ranking Poorly
Your rankings have dropped and you don't know why. Maybe your traffic dropped as well, or maybe just a section of your site has lost rankings. It's an important mystery to solve, and in this Whiteboard Friday, Rand shares a detailed process to follow to diagnose what went wrong, why it happened, and how to recover.
What Does It Mean to "Write for SEO" in 2018?
Writers regularly receive dangerously incorrect advice on how to write for SEO. To protect your site from Google penalties and ensure your writing is appropriate for modern SEO standards, Rand outlines outdated practices and a brief 5-step writing process for 2018.