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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Where is your mind? I'm talking about your role in converting the great unwashed into believers of whatever it is that your website is selling. As you're aware, your goal is to get the right people to your site, and to get them to perform whatever action it is that you want (as cheaply as possible), So you've got the traffic on your site, and you're pointing th...
Jonah Stein from Alchemist Media hung out with some writers from the Colbert Report last week and told them about the powers of "Google-Bombing." Naturally, being the fun and mischievous crew that they are, they loved the idea and asked him if he could make Stephen #1 for "...
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...
With our combined experience over the years, we have seen the best and worst of web hosting companies. Here’s a light hearted but rather jaded list of reasons web hosts who are not rockyfied! 1. Calling into customer support and waiting on hold for 40 minutes and the hold music is Ma...
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...
A bold title I admit, and one that could perhaps better be written as the answer to 49.5% of SEO questions, and the answer to the other 49.5% of SEO questions. Before you read on expecting an opus of wisdom, I’m going to qualify the title by saying that it isn’t the answer to 99% of SEO questions, but a guide to answering them yourself. Let’s start with how a q...
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...
We've all hit that point, either with our own business or perhaps with a client whose business we have gotten close to, where it feels like we've hit a creative dead-end. You know the point. Where it feels like nothing is fresh and the ideas have stopped flowing. It can happen anytime we get too close to something. Ironically, if you were asked about some other business you could pro...
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. ...
When the lovely people at SEOmoz launched YOUmoz all those weeks ago, one of the things that most excited me (being a notorious attentention junkie) was not just the ability to be able to rant to a group of like-minded people on aspects of search and the wider internet that interest me, but the fact that I could then judge the eff...