A Completely Irrelevant, Off-Topic Post (that should brighten your day)
Everyone who's seen this short Flash video has been quoting pieces to me non-stop. I figured it was worth spreading the virus: The video is courtesy of...
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Printer Friendly SEOmoz & Comments
Just a quick update folks - I've created a media="print" CSS file that creates printer friendly versions of all SEOmoz's pages. You should now be able to print out the stuff on our site without any major graphical issues. Printed pages won't look perfect (there's a lot of spacing issues), but it's still a huge improvement. I removed the header, footer, logo, and secondary navigation. I a...
Expert Writing - A Contrast of the Good & the Ugly
I read two articles yesterday via Del.icio.us and couldn't help but be struck by the contrast between them, and the application of that reading experience to the practice of writing. Although better writing isn't the focus of this blog, it certainly does help with everything from link building to public relations to branding, and thus is worthy of some attention. The first article comes...
Ten Ways to Take a Break from Tedious SEO Work
I thought I'd hop on the "Top 10" bandwagon and give you my very own Top 10 list. Having researched some keywords for one of our clients for the past three days, I find myself constantly feeling the urge to take mental breaks for fear of being driven insane by monotonous data entry; thus, I present my Ten Ways to Take a Break from Tedious SEO Work: Peer over yo...
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All the Things I Should Have Linked To
Once again, I've fallen behind the times in blogging and haven't given proper respect to more than a few sites, pages and people who deserve it. Thus, this token attempt at absolution from the angry gods of the blogosphere: Todd Malicoat went line by line through that "revealed" Google ranking code and c...
A Trip to Montreal
Sure, the post is a bit off-topic, but I figure if Mike Grehan can write about falling in love with cities, why not SEOmoz? This was my first trip to Montreal, and my first experience with Quebec. Luckily, I didn't have to rely on my non-existant French as much as I'd feared, as the city is completely bilingual - though reading the English in the...
Keyword Difficulty Tool Upgrade
Matt's been hard at work this week, upgrading SEOmoz's KW Difficulty Tool. It's now faster, more accurate and comes with spiffier graphics. In honor, I thought it would be valuable to write a post on how to read this data: ...
Why Meeting People Face to Face Matters
So far this year, I've spent 40 days and nights away from home. It's not that I love travel - in truth, it wears on me and I'm happiest when I'm home. Despite living here my whole life, I'm completely enamored with Seattle and the life that I have here. So why spend more than 1/5 of the year to date away? Why log the hundreds of hours in the air, waiting in airports, driving rental cars and sle...
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A glimpse inside the head of 2K
Because of being extremely busy at the moment, I'm going to make this post short and sweet. Below are some links that allow to see what I consider the best /most important reads during the past week: ClickZ has an interesting article about AJAX and web analytics. This is an ...
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For Statistics Hounds
I really enjoy statistics and have run into some nice summaries today.If you are curious about what monitor resolution people are using, which browser, which operating system, etc. here is a link that gives some trends over time.... Browser StatisticsI was surprised to see that Mac operating system was NOT going e...
The Great Curse of Insomnia
It's 7:45pm in Seattle and 3:45am here in London. Why am I up? The same reason I was up last night at this time, and, for that matter, the night before that. My body can't seem to adjust to Greenwich Mean Time. Of course, I've been far too busy to sleep during the day, which leaves me wondering how long a 26-year old male can actually go without any significant quantity of shut-eye. Luc...
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Don't Count on Search Traffic in Your Ten Year Plan
I see powerful things in Digg, Slashdot, Stumbleupon, Delicious, Wikipedia, forums of all types, and other sites that attract people because of a common interest or activity. These sites are "communities" of visitors or authors. These sites drive massive traffic in a short blast or massive traffic that is cumulative over time.My guess is that these highly popular ...
Too Much Good Stuff to Miss - Roundup Post
Too many items from early this week and last last week are critical reading. Make sure you take notice of these, as a few have a strong effect on the industry: Wired exposes NSA wiretapping on the Internet Backbone at AT&T and they wrote an excellent piece on ...
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Run SEOmoz Run
This past weekend a bunch of us SEOmozzers participated in a 5k (3 mile) benefit run around greenlake. I'd just like to publicly say GOOD JOB to everyone that put the effort in and ran the distance. Although not highly competitive, it was for a good cause and I think we all queued up some rad karma points. Also, kudos to Kat for initiating the idea. Here's a few photos:...