I have a humble request. Fall has come, so I am back in school for the last year. I enrolled in a magazine writing class because I thought it would be fun. So far it has not been fun at all, but our first assignment is to profile a person, business, or organization. I lovingly think of SEOmoz as all three, in a way, and I knew right away that I wanted to do my article on it.
If you’re a newly self-employed SEM/SEO, you’ve certainly got several things on your plate right now: link building for your clients, promoting your own website and blog, worrying that your paid links are now going to get you blacklisted by Google, etc. Well, if you haven’t thought of it yet, there’s one more thing for you to worry about: Taxes. Now that...
As Rand mentioned in his recent post: Big Changes at SEOmoz, I'm leaving the company to pursue other opportunities. It's been nearly 4 and a half years, which is a millennium in tech-industry time, and I feel that SEOmoz is at a point where I'm comfortable leaving. Previously, I was the only developer, designer, and systems administrator and our entire infrastructure depended on me. With Jeff, and more recently Mel, I can now leave knowing that SEOmoz is in good hands.
This is a tough post to write. Not because I'm not excited and not because the news I want to share isn't positive, but simply because I feel like I've been keeping something from you for the past few weeks, and I hate doing that. Of course, it's nowhere near as tough as hiding my Super Bowl engagement from Mystery Guest...
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A while back I talked about the frustrations of explaining my line of work to my relatives, but I'm starting to think that maybe ignorance truly is bliss. I recently heard two examples of non-search people's perceptions about how the search engines work, and it is frustrating to think that some people believe that this is actually how the search industry operates.
We're officially announcing our newest benefit to Premium Members: the SEOmoz Premium Member Discount Store (note that only Premium Members will be able to access the page). We've partnered with several SEO and SEM companies to provide Premium Members with discounts and deals on various products and services (here's where I channel my i...
So, you think you know your SEO inside and out, eh? Well, now's your chance to show your stuff. SEOmoz is proud to announce the SEO Expert Quiz. 75 action-packed questions designed to test your mettle, covering all corners of the SEO universe from beginner knowledge to sneaky tricks only true Dark Lords of the SERPs will know. Once completed, you'll have the chan...
Since Read/Write Web is covering 10 future web trends today, I though it would be a perfect time to present my own theories on how search engines might be innovating their technologies. Query Intent Detection It seems that all of the major engines have eschewed disambiguati...
It's Labor Day in the US, and technically, that means we should be celebrating the history of the labor movement and the advancements that lead to greater leisure time. This weekend, Mystery Guest and I are joining my grandparents to hike some canyons in the SouthWest - Zion, Antelope and hopefully, Bryce, too. Since the weather is hovering around 108 degrees fahrenheit, 42 centigrade, I d...
I'm taking a temporary break in conference coverage (don't worry - there will be more next week) to poll some of the smartest people I know (that's you, SEOmoz readers), about an issue that's been keeping Gillian and I up plenty of nights during the past 3 months. SEOmoz is at a tipping point of sorts - we've gone from being primarily a search marketing consultantcy business, ...
Since Rand's out of town, we decided to be super-productive and took the liberty of Simpsonizing all of the SEOmoz staffers. Enjoy! Rand: Gillian:...
...at least, according to my relatives I do. I'm in Michigan right now. Hot, humid, flat, skinny tree'd, built Ford (or GM, or Chrysler) tough Michigan. I was born and raised here, but moved to Seattle for college, where I fell in love with the Emerald City and got a pretty sweet internship-turned-job working at the Moz Plex. Still, like a good daughter/sister/niece, I try to visit the Mother Land...
As promised, SEOmoz has new rates for premium membership today: Monthly Subscription - now $49/month 6 Month Membership - now $249 (15% off monthly rate) 1 Year Membership - now $399 (32% off monthly rate) We've also got some very exciting new features for premium members. The first of these is the brainchild of Matt, who no...
Yesterday's announcement of the SEOmoz premium landing page contest created an exceptional buzz - we've already had more than a dozen people contact us about creating their version of the document. In addition, I received some excellent advice from two experts in the field - Jon Mendez of OTTO Digital and Bryan Eisenberg of FutureNow. To help anyone and everyone who's in the field of landing pa...