Last spring, when the owners of the small book store where I worked asked me to see whether I couldn’t get the store web site to do something to earn its keep, I had never heard or seen the expression “SEO.” In the intervening year, I took an unindexed web site to number two on Google, increased links from nothing to nearly 9,000 without either paid or reciprocal links,...
Hello YOUmozzers! This is my first ever YOUmoz blog post and possibly my last, depending on how well SEOmoz can handle a little bit of constructive criticism. ;) Up until about 3 weeks ago, I was working at a fairly well-known SEO firm, but unfortunately, my valid SEO theories and genius-grade ideas weren't welcome there, so I decided to strike out on my own! SEOs are...
I'm currently working on re-authoring and re-building the Beginner's Guide to Search Engine Optimization, section by section. You can read more about this project here. How & Why "Great" Sites Rise t...
With the SEO / SEM Industry maturing and people becoming "professional" SEO's, there has been a growth in Search Engine Optimization training seminars and online schools. Currently, there exists no way to rate a good school from a bad one, and the risk of paying for an incomplete education is high. So what does a school have to cover to graduate competent SEOs?Here ...
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Lots of people drinking from the stupid fountain this month, apparently, and since YouMOZ is becoming my favorite place to vent, I thought I'd post some of my favorites:"We're in a holding pattern." - from a potential client in the travel industry who's been internally debating whether to conduct any internet marketing for eight months now...
Earlier this year a good friend of mine started optimising his website in the hope of getting a Google ranking for his own name. For 99% of those who try, this is a challenge enough, but when you're a guy who makes bits of particle accelerators (specifically, I...
This topic led by the Divining Rod of Webpage Success has landed in the miscellaneous section. It could have landed really in any other section because if you were to make an internet foundation you would find out that ,there are thousands upon thousands of thoughts and comments and trials and errors and great days as well as bad days, when it comes to webmasters and web(tryin...
We're just not getting any visitors from the search engines... I probably hear that line 30X or more each week - over email, in phone calls, in conversation, on forums, etc. and to tell the truth, it would be really handy to have a resource I could point folks for some self-diagnosis. If only there were some type of medium that I could publish on... one that would be accessible on ...
Starting last night in to this morning, we've been getting reports of people who have recently updated their version of Firefox to the new 2.0.0.1.2 release and now get a blank screen when they come to SEOmoz. We're still working on what the exact issue is with our site and why upgrading Firefox breaks it, ...
Firstly, the title is incorrect it should actually read "the funniest moz comments I could remember and find from recent-ish times" but obviously that wasn't quite as snappy.Rummaging through the old moz comments has been a delight and I've loved rediscovering some of these gems. Who knew that techno geeks could be funny too?Shoulders of Doom anyone? Dr Pete'...
Most of you are aware I recently took a position at Tribune as their in-house SEO Manager.One of the first things I did was get a current state of the union. After working through the issues of verification for the dozens of sites (another post, perhaps), I realized that 'What Googlebot Sees' for a handful o...
If you are going to take up an SEO service it is important for you to understand that SEO is not something that can be done based on some set principles and then left at that. There is lot more to SEO than just building links or writing title tags. There is a whole lot of planning and execution that goes into building a successful SEO campaign and this takes time. There is time required to wo...
Alright, I’m not really going to cry, but a year ago, on March 13th, I became a member of the SEOmoz community, and in celebration of my moziversary I wanted to write a post that summarizes a few of the things I’ve learned. ...
On Thursday morning (yesterday), SEOmoz reached 2000 PRO members and we had a mini celebration at the office to commemorate. To honor the occasion, Mystery Guest stayed up until midnight the night before, baking us fantastic, shortbrea...