Si & I arrived late last night in Xi'an, in the Shaanxi province after 26+ hours of travel (which I don't recommend). Of course, I'm already set up online, trying to respond to dozens of emails, despite the us of an auto-responder. I think I'm feeling some empathy with Matt Cutts :) While here, I couldn't help myself but to conduct one of the most talked-about searches in regards to...
Tonight, Mystery Guest and I flew down to San Francisco for a quick weekend away (and to visit some friends). We arrived late and raced to get to a dinner with Laura Lippay in the financial district. Sadly, between our arrival time around 10pm to when we got back to the rental car at 11:30pm, the car was broken into (jimmied the driver's side lock and popped the trunk). My laptop, all our luggage ...
Today I'm very proud to announce that the Illustrated Guide to Search Friendliness is finally complete. I've personally been working on it for over a month - completely writing it from scratch and doing all the designs and illustrations, too. I'm incredibly happy with the results, and I think you will be, too. This guide is, in my opinion, one of the most valuable documents SEOmoz has ever prod...
Thanks a lot, Rand. Your "Make Stephen Colbert the Greatest Living American" contest resulted in over 150 comments and nearly 50 submissions. I had to spend nearly a week toiling over each link in order to crown the winner. (Okay, I spent about twenty minutes going through them,...
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In August, 2005, SEOmoz launched the first series of ranking factors. We asked a dozen folks in the SEO world to vote on the importance of over 100 unique factors surmised to be part of the search engines' ranking algorithms. Today, we've released a new version that addresses many of the issues that frustrated users of the first...
We've added a new feature for premium members: SEO Tips and Tricks. It's nothing earth-shatteringly huge, just a simple list of SEO tips, tricks, and bits of industry knowledge that we don't make publicly available. The list will be updated fairly regularly and when a new tip is published you'll notice a New SEO Tip link in the left-hand navig...
It's been about a month and a half since our new site launch, meaning that we've received nearly 2 months' worth of YOUmoz submissions (160, to be exact, with 94 entries published). A little over half of the submissions we receive get published, but what...
With some help from Jeff, I've re-created a new version of our Recommended List of SEO Consultants, Experts, Firms & Service Providers. The new version features some very nice functionality for folks seeking specific services and price ranges, and provides considerably more information about each provider. ...
As you may have read, Scott and I made an early campaign for Worst Mozzers of the Year by abandoning our sick boss to trainset to Paris. Though we seem like horrible, horrible employees, enough people (including, hopefully, Rand) got a kick out of it to motivate me to share with you all a step-by-step...
Just in time for Valentine's Day...Search here often?Is that a SERP in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?You must be banned from Google because it’s blackhat to look that good.I’ve been looking at the analytics, and I’d like to make you my landing page.You rank first on my personalized search results.I&rsqu...
A lot of people ask, "Where do I submit my site to search engines?" If you're new to SEO, it's a lot easier than you think. You see all these advertisements that for $20 they will submit your site to 10,000 search engines. Well, the truth is, that's a scam. There aren't 10,000 search engines, at least not 10,000 that will end up delivering any traffic to yo...
As some folks had already guessed, I was the MySuperProposal guy. Tonight, I proposed to Mystery Guest on her favorite show, Veronica Mars. The video is at iFilm - the response should be up very soon (but here's a spoiler, she said YES!) ...
This is a podcast highlighting all the new stuff we've added to SEOmoz with the launch of our new site. I tried to cover all the new features we added, including explaining MozPoints and the details of our premium membership. SEOmoz Version 3 - New Bells and Whistles ...
Stick with me here, because this post relates to SEO...I promise...I went snowboarding for the first time last year. Despite growing up in Michigan, where I could have driven up to the UP (that's Upper Peninsula to you folks who don't point out your hometown on your hand) to hit the slopes, I had never snowboarded or skied before. The first time I tried snowboarding, I went...