Ever wonder how our favorite robot came to life? In today's post, Derric Wise walks us through the evolution of Roger throughout the years. From his first "crawls" to his current state, dive into the creative minds behind Roger Mozbot!
2012 was an amazing year at SEOmoz. We grew tremendously in members, revenue, and employees; finally raised a second round of funding; added a number of great features to our product; and acquired three companies. Today, we're thrilled to officially announce our third acquisition and the opening of our Portland office, as well as release our 2012 financials and growth data!
Now that the year has come to a close, it's time to take a look back at the posts and people who rocked 2012. Check out the best of the Moz blog last year had to offer, along with some awesome extras along the way. Enjoy!
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It has been a tremendously exciting year here at SEOmoz. Today, we're excited to announce that we've taken a big step toward the future of Moz with the acquisition of GetListed, and the addition of David Mihm to the SEOmoz team!
Good things come to those who wait, and you've all been waiting patiently for our new Mozinar series. We're happy to announce that our Mozinars are back and better than ever. Best of all, they're now free for everyone!
We sat down with the SEOmoz Art Director, Derric Wise, and he unveiled the mechanics behind drawing everyone's favorite robot. Now it's your turn: learn how to draw Roger and enter our contest! All entries are due by Sunday, October 28th at 9pm PST.
This past Wednesday, October 3rd, Moz invaded Milwaukee for a Mozcation. Our gratious host, Kyle Faber from Regal Creative helped set us up at that Harley Davidson Musuem and show us the best beer.
Google announced an "upcoming" algorithm change targeting low-quality Exact-Match Domains on 9/28. Data from MozCast indicated the change did hit on 9/28 - I break down the data, along with some of the sites impacted.
The Google algorithm is too complicated to be understood in just one number, so we're happy to announce five new "top view" metrics on MozCast, including: Domain Diversity, SERP Count, EMD Influence, PMD Influence, and the "Big 10" domains.
The 2012 MozCon videos have arrived! Get all 29 presentations and slide-decks with cutting edge content from the brightest minds in our industry.
The Big Data Team at Moz has had one of the hardest periods to date producing an index (and we've had some nightmarish doozies in the past). In June, after our funding from Foundry & Ignition, we started running 4 simultaneous indices on Amazon while also starting to set up our new hybrid (our processing and Amazon storage) cloud data center in Virginia.
Whoa. Ever have one of those times where your expectations are completely blown out of the water? Well that's what happened during this year's nomination for a MozCation. Wait, wait, wait, before I get too far ahead of myself, I...
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