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Rand's on Video
Rand Fishkin

Rand's on Video

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. ...

Entry #1: Generating Our Stuff on Their Space
Rebecca Kelley

Entry #1: Generating Our Stuff on Their Space

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 ...

Entry #4: Are the 'Digg 100' the New Rupert Murdoch?
Rebecca Kelley

Entry #4: Are the 'Digg 100' the New Rupert Murdoch?

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 ...

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Entry #6: User-Generated Content, aka Free Speech
Rebecca Kelley

Entry #6: User-Generated Content, aka Free Speech

"This site is blocked because its content may be offensive to the political, moral, or religious values of the United Arab Emirates."Last year, two talented young Americans left their home in Seattle for a one-year stint in Dubai at a TV startup. They were homesick and hurtling from the culture shock, both on the street and in the workplace. Hungry to reconnect and shivering ...

How You Can Help SEOmoz Hire
Rand Fishkin

How You Can Help SEOmoz Hire

After more than 100 resumes, 20 interviews (including a few grueling ones), we've narrowed down our candidates to 5 standouts. This diverse group will be asked to write a blog entry over the weekend and submit them to us on Monday morning, at which point, we'll let you vote on which blog entry you like best. The entries will be anonymized, but they're all on a similar topic (though I expect to ...

Mentors - they don't grow on trees anymore...
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Mentors - they don't grow on trees anymore...

The most common question I receive after I've written any of my posts is: How can I get started and learn what you know? And that's a difficult question to answer. Not because I don't think it's possible, but because there is so much that you can do in the SEO field. Let's take black hat out of th...

Why I Love Working for SEOmoz
Rebecca Kelley

Why I Love Working for SEOmoz

Today I'm going to sappify (yes, I just made up a word. Deal with it!) this blog. Why? Well, first of all I'm currently the only female SEOmoz blogger, and even though I tend to fall more on the tomboy side, I can still girly it up a bit from time to time. Secondly, work has been going really well for me lately, which caused me to reflect on exactly why I'm so happy with how things are going. Beho...

Entry Level Job at SEOmoz
Rand Fishkin

Entry Level Job at SEOmoz

SEOmoz is hiring! Check out the post on Craigslist: Do You Use Your Powers for Good... Or for Awesome? I debated posting this job on the blog, but it wouldn't fit with our open culture to keep it private, and folks already in the search marketing sphere could make excellent candida...

Bloggers and Lawsuits and Pagejacking, Oh My!
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Bloggers and Lawsuits and Pagejacking, Oh My!

The story as it stands so far... One of the things I've done in the past couple of years is to scrape the search engines for content. Once I get that content, I sometimes tweak it, but invariably it ends up on my network of sites to feed the search engines more of what they're looking for. (Ok, maybe that's a stretch but they DO crawl and index my sites :)) Occasiona...

Official Welcome to Jeff Pollard
Rand Fishkin

Official Welcome to Jeff Pollard

Jeff Pollard, SEOmoz's newest employee and a fantastically talented web developer hasn't had a formal welcome yet on the blog - until now. Jeff will be helping us scrape, spam, hack and reverse engineer... uhhh, I mean build high quality, functional, usable websites and some new tools. He also adds to the number of bearded employees at SEOmoz, which is always a positive...

And Then There Were Six...
Rand Fishkin

And Then There Were Six...

SEOmoz and Kat Ortland, who's been with us nearly a year, are parting ways today - Kat's off to pursue bigger and bolder ventures in the world of journalism and we wish her well. Her work with us, particularly on the Web2.0 Awards project helped to make her a star and we're looking forward to seeing great things from her career in the future. ...