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The Brief History of SEO
Google announces that the public can report paid links...The entire SEO community shits itself...This is why. The...
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Are Professional Networking Sites Worthwhile?
I'm having a tough time deciding whether or not online professional networking sites are absolutely brilliant or a complete waste of time. We're talking the LinkedIn / Spoke / Xing ...
Rebecca and Jane on WebProNews
While Rebecca and I were in New York this past week, we sat down with Michael McDonald of WebProNews to discuss some social media issues. While Rebecca is upset that she has a large strand of hair partially covering her face, and I'm amused at the awful look on my face in the embedded player, we didn't come across too badly on the film so we decided to post it here.
I Tie Up Mike McDonald & Interview Vanessa Fox... Again.
Twenty-Eight Minutes... More than a full TV show worth of content, in-jokes and Google tips from a conversation with Vanessa Fox from Google's Webmaster Central team....
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5 Best Things & 5 Worst Things About Being An In-House SEO
I'm now less than a week from starting my new job as the SEO Director of a search marketing agency, and it got me thinking about what I've learnt from my time as part of an (initially very small) in-house SEO team. There have been a lot of pros & cons to my time her, and in true blog style, I thought I'd try to summarise these in a snappy little list.Bad Thing...
Personality Analysis: The Makings of an SEO
A look at the unique and rare personality combinations that drive the best in the industry. Ok, lets face it…people love to read these kinds of things to get the ego boost that can come out of them. Invariably, any online personality analysis pumps you up by going into great detail your many unique strengths, while glossing over or playing down, or even spinnin...
How Did You Learn SEO?
No April's Fools stuff from us this year - the search world is overrun with pranks. I do have have an important question that I'd love to get answers to. I'll start by providing my own. In 2001, the company that would become SEOmoz (at the time just Gillian, Matt & myself) began taking on some e-commerce development projects. Previously, we had designed static websites in Flash &...
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31 reasons why SEOs suck and 53 reasons why we rock!
Reasons Why SEOs SUCK 1.Some SEOs unnaturally alter digg rankings which cause you to get banned 2.Some SEOs use keyword stuffing to make you rank better but get you banned 3.Some SEOs use cloaking 4.Some SEOs take prepayment and give you no results 5.Some SEOs do spam email marketing 6.Some SEOs guarantee top ten natural ranki...
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Semantic Search: A New Context
Semantic search is actually just one facet of what’s possible using semantic technology. There are many more uses and implementations that are generally not discussed and frequently passed over altogether. This doesn’t mean that they are any less valid, it’s just that the companies that are developing these technologies for the most part are primarily search engine comp...
Wasting Time or Clearly Incompetent - The SEO Consulting Debate
On Monday, Brian Provost at ScoreBoard Media Group authored a post called - The First Question You Should Ask Your SEO Consultant. Brian's exceptionally good at expressing himself, so I won't paraphrase: “If you can rank a site in lucrative markets, why wou...
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More Secrets of Search Engine Marketing (that shouldn't be secret)
Rand's recent post about the (not so) secret to getting high rankings in the SERPS got me thinking as to whether there are any other secrets in SEM that should really be common knowledge. And then one struck me. In fact I'd argue that it's the biggest secret about searc...
A-List vs. Blue Collar Blogging
Poor Jason Calacanis. He seems to want to be the Ann Coulter or Bill O'Reilly of the SEO sphere, where he'll say stupid, outrageous things just to get noticed and blogged about. (And yes, I'm blogging about him...shut up.) In a recent post he authored (I'm not going to link to it because I think he's an idiot), he talks about how there is no such thing as "blue collar blogging" and "...
Top Five SEO Excuses
Having been an active participant at various website forums over the years, I’ve come across many a new site owner who makes one excuse or another about why they can’t or won’t search engine optimize their site. If there IS a legitimate reason not to optimize a site... I’m definitely not aware of it. Therefore, here are my picks for the top five SEO excuse...
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Personalized Point-of-View - personally speaking, that is
Personalized search has its place – I guess. Personally, I’m not a huge fan, and I don’t think its going to have either a terribly big, or a terribly negative impact on SEO. I wanted to mention Danny’s great post for those who might have missed it, and also add my own somewhat obvious pov. ...