I think I get asked this question on average 4X per week, more during conferences and after we've been in the press and less when I hide in the cupboard and make Brandon answer the phones. It's certainly a valid one, though and deserving of a definitive answer. Here's what the "moz" in SEOmoz means: We're building off the history of organizations like DMOZ, ...
I'm pleased and excited to inform you all that Rand is sending me to England for 18 days to participate in Ammon Johns' SEO Intern Training Program. I'll be leaving October 31st and will arrive in London on November 1st. After five days of sightseeing (including celebrating ...
The weekend here in Seattle is dark, foggy & wet so it's a perfect time to share some of my favorite games from the web. Some of these you can play online, others you'll have to download, and all are guaranteed to sap your productivity. Fancy Pants Adventure ...
For a little Friday fun, I came up with ten sentences you may read in an email from someone whose writing has clearly been influenced by the Web: "I really digg that noob girl that Accounting hired." "Whoever pwns a blue Dodge Stratus needs to move his car because it's parked next to a hydrant." "Did you notice the lig...
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Yesterday I spent some time on hold on the phone and browsed through my "rarely read" sources, only to find that this week has some great material that's gone largely unnoticed. Let's begin with a field that barely gets mentioned at SEOmoz: Politics. FactCheck.orgI've been referred to this site in t...
For a long time, SEOmoz's RSS feed has been full text - the entire content of every post (minus images, polls & embedded video) has gone out to readers that subscribe through a feed format. According to Feedburner, a majority of our blog readership accesses the blog in this manner - we average a bit over 4,000 feed subscribers, get about 5-600 clickthroughs from feed listings and have only ...
I have to admit that I was a bit sad this morning to discover that my little competition with Matt here at the office didn't go so well for me. We were both writing blog entries late last night, both convinced that our post was the more linkbait worthy. Sadly, Matt schooled me - his post received ...
It's with great pleasure that I introduce our newest SEOmoz team member, the incredibly talented Jane Copland. Jane's tenure at SEOmoz has only been a week, but she's already a valuable addition to our team - poring through tomes of websites, blogs and books to catch up on the fast-moving world of search. ...
Andy Beal spent the day with SEOmoz, consulting with us on how to grow our business, take advantage of our strengths and shore up areas of weakness. Andy's experience with WebSourced, a giant firm in the field and Fortune Interactive, a mid-size player, has given him the ability to take a close look at a firm in SEO and immediately identify strategi...
Snail mail is dead, right? Apparently not! Recently SEOmoz received a written letter from a well-meaning entrepreneur at a federal correctional institution, asking us if we could send him any information about SEOmoz's services. ...
I was recently interviewed on video (in a t-shirt) at our offices here in Seattle by Payscale.com for their Salary Stories blog. I'm not sure if I'll ever be fully comfortable with how I look on video, but it might be something to experiment with. ...
User generated content seems to be a pendulum-swing against the 1980s and ‘90s-style elitism that had all aspects of the media, including the web, tucked away in the firm grasp of a small, skilled group. Now, the opposite is true: In no other public way can the regular folks you see promoting themselves on Bebo or dishing out ...
Seattle Internet startup Trailfire is attempting to blaze a path through the web bookmarking community and straight into your disorganized life. Besides a misleading appeal to pyromaniacs, the service offers some features that are unique, straightforward to use, and potentially very advantageous. Trailfire is essentially a bookmark plug-in for yo...
The user-submitted, Web 2.0 world is, in theory, built upon the idea of a democratic, free-flow of news and ideas: free of the framing, restraint and editorial control of the mainstream media. Unfortunately, much has been made recently of the not-so-egalitarian power structure that exists on bookmarking sites such as Reddit and, particularly, Digg.With an estimated ...