First and foremost, let me extend my best wishes to the family and friends of Michael Jackson. I can only imagine the pain of losing a close friend and then having to watch it play out on a global stage. He made an extraordinary impact on the world and although not perfect, he is a teacher even in death (as evidenced by this post). The following is a timeline of how the news of the ...
"The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things: Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax-- Of cabbages--and kings-- And why the sea is boiling hot-- And whether pigs have wings." We can talk about the temperature of the sea and the possibility of winged pork some other time,...
It's been a long time since we had a differential diagnosis post here on SEOmoz, but we've been getting lots of comments and emails requesting some mysteries, so here goes: #1 - Who, Exactly, is Awesome, and Why? ...
It's late night Sunday and rather than bringing you exciting news from the world of search and SEO, I've got some explaining to do. For those who hadn't noticed, SEOmoz has some serious downtime and errors this weekend. Starting early morning Saturday and running through to Sunday, many parts of the site were inaccessible due to either A) an exceptionally unlucky set of simultaneous h...
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(Intro: For those who aren't aware, last week I challenged Will Critchlow to a presentation-off during SMX London). I see how it is, Will. Don't try to deny it. You can't win on points, so y...
I have been doing some experiments lately to gain organic traffic to some of my websites by creating pages with internal search results and letting them get indexed via forum signatures. And so far it did increase my organic traffic a bit.
I am a HUGE fan of The Celebrity Apprentice on NBC. I don’t watch a lot of television, but this is a show that I cannot – and will not – miss. It’s exciting, suspenseful, and highly entertaining. The more I watch, the more I begin to make connections between the show and SEO. I thought it might be fun to share a handful of “lessons” that I think all in the SEO industry can learn from The Celebrity Apprentice.
Dear Spammers Sending Out Emails to SEOmoz Members (and members of other sites, for that matter), You don’t impress me. First of all, you're competing with lots of other companies from India, all of whom seem to be using the same “template” for their email as you do.
I ask this question as both an SEO and a web user. I am very much into my Formula 1 at the moment, even to the point that I get up at 'stupid o'clock' to watch the qualifying and the race - because I live in the UK, the first batch of races are taking place early in the morning. Not great after a Saturday night out getting up at 7.00am, but I am digressing.
A bit of a personal development post tonight, and a short one. I recently read an introduction to a blog post from Todd Mintz that caught me off guard: I was checking into my hotel at SES San Jose last year when I noticed in the lobby a prominen...
Recently, SEOmoz.org made some changes to the way comments are displayed. In some ways they are subtle changes as they don’t really alter the way commenting works, but in some ways they are pretty dramatic. Regardless of the reason and functionality for the change, I am amazed that the change was not accompanied by a post about the obvious change.
From Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass :"Well, in our country," said Alice, still panting a little, "you'd generally get to somewhere else — if you run very fast for a long time, as we've been doing.""A slow sort of country!" said the Queen. "Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can d...
It is not like I think about issues like the one mentioned in the title of this article every day, but sometimes (especially when I've been in an unusual situation for a few days) it happens. I was thinking today - why are some people successful online and why some aren't? What is that thing that differentiates successful people from the "normal" ones and the ones you may call "losers"?
Today, at the SMX Sydney conference, Darren Rowse and I had a fascinating conversation that I felt compelled to share. In 2006, a popular blog post or piece of content would generate a remarkable amount of blogging activity. It wasn't uncommon for a few hundred small & mid-size blogs & news sites to pick up a story, add their thoughts...