Over the past 2 years, SEOmoz has worked with quite a number of websites whose primary goal (or primary problem) in SEO has been indexation - getting more of their pages included in Google's index so they have the opportunity to rank well. These are, obviously, long tail focused sites that earn the vast majority of their visits from queries that bring in 5 or fewer searches each day. In this po...
First off, I hope everyone among our US (and expat) readers had a great holiday weekend, filled with tryptophan and football (I know mine was). Second, I'm very excited to announce that SEOmoz PRO is launching our first ever webinar on Thursday Dec. 10th at 11am Pacific (2pm Eastern, 7pm Lond...
70s hard rock. SEO. Whilst the connection you might be able to think of is that your web developer is wearing an "original" Rainbow tour t-shirt (despite having been about 4 when the band last performed live), there is much* that grizzled middle-aged men playing Smoke on the Water can tell us about SEO...1. They're an authority groupDeep ...
He wakes up at 7:31 AM just like the day before. With ignorance as his shield, he ventures out into a world without privacy. The young man (a title given to him by his mother) sits submissively in his bed and idly scans e-mail on his phone. Another notice from his bank, a forwarded e-mail from his friend, 5 new e-mails from his co-workers, and an intimate message from a girl he met ...
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To identify the most linked to pages on the world's most popular websites, we used SEOmoz's Linkscape powered top pages tool to compile a list of 105 of the most linked to pages on 17 of the Internet's most popular sites. The results are both surprising and amusing, but from Google to GaGa the most linked to pages on the internet provide an interesting look at your favorite domains that will make you scratch your head as much as it will make you laugh.
I'm in the middle of a wild 6-week stint. First Oslo for a week, then home for 4 days, then SMX East and a week in New York City. Tonight, I'm back in Seattle, but only for a few days - our SEOmoz/Distilled London semi...
I’m sure many of you are like me and one of the first things you do in the morning is head to SEOmoz and check out the blogs. Along with seeing the new posts, I'm also always checking out my MozPoints and watching them grow, or shrink sometimes. In one of my past ...
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I'm thrilled to announce that after months of hard work, SEOmoz's biennial Search Engine Ranking Factors is finally launching. Every two years, we survey 100 of the industry's top SEO minds. In 2009, 72 SEOs participated in the data gathering process, answering survey questions that consumed hours of time. The resulting document...
Have you been thinking about submitting to YOUmoz lately, but you're not sure what the benefits are? Or perhaps you have a killer post in your head but are afraid to take the next step. Whatever the reason is that you've been holding back, I have 10 reasons why you should get yourself in gear and get that post written and submitted!
There are lots of standardized definitions of SEO (see define query), but few that exist to define or distill the qualities that make a person a professional SEO. The way I see it, there are three ways a professional can be categorized and assigned - technical, self-constructed and peer validated. T...
I was speaking with a potential client the other day who is currently using another companies service for their web development and SEO. Over the course of the last 6 months of this year they have seen a steady decline in traffic and...
In the last 10 months, we've taken a number of dramatic steps to improve the link information available to webmasters & SEOs. Today, I'm pleased to announce even more progress in that direction, as well and cover the impressive store of data now accessible. Sections in this post: Linkscape's Web Index Over Time Upgrades to Link Data & Metri...
(Intro: This post continues a series of personal growth focused entries. It doesn't have much direct, applicable SEO value, so feel free to skip if that's what you're seeking) I've learned more in the last 9 months than at any previous time in my life - about myself, about this company and about the worlds of venture capital, entrepreneurship and startups. And, in the spirit of transpar...