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SES Chicago Recap in Comics
Rand Fishkin

SES Chicago Recap in Comics

We noticed that at the last few SES & Pubcon conferences, the coverage has been overwhelming. You can't say a word or show a slide without finding it 3 hours later all over the search blogosphere. So... we wanted to do something a little different for our coverage. Let's see how Incisive likes giving out press passes to young women whose primary form of journalism is done in the classi...

More Hot Topics from Chicago
Rand Fishkin

More Hot Topics from Chicago

This event is fast and furious, so I've got to keep it in list format again: Apparently, I was wrong about Todd Malicoat - he has a crush on me (pictures to prove this later), not Lisa Barone. On the female side of the aisle, there is a girl that he's devoted to, but she's not at the conference...

My Experience as a Fresh Egg Intern
Rebecca Kelley

My Experience as a Fresh Egg Intern

Huzzah, hooray! I've managed to get this article up before Rand and I have to leave for SES Chicago. Apparently Ammon and Co. in the UK have been waiting for me to put it up "with bated breath." So, for the sake of Ammon's lungs, I thought I'd stop messing around and get to business.Anyway, as most of you probably know, I interned with Fresh...

Neil & Cameron - Emerging SEO Celebrities
Rand Fishkin

Neil & Cameron - Emerging SEO Celebrities

Every so often in the SEO world, a new rockstar emerges onto the scene - engaging audiences at conferences, running a great blog and getting linked to on every other post in the feedreaders. This year, two of those guys are part of one company - Neil Patel & Cameron Olthuis of ACS. In all honesty, I've been blown away by their rapid rise to stardo...

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What I'm Thankful for this Thanksgiving
Rand Fishkin

What I'm Thankful for this Thanksgiving

I'm just going to go crazy with this one because I have so much to be thankful for (note that a lot of this will be Pubcon-centric, due to the timing). Getting out of debt and turning SEOmoz into a profitable company - I owe almost all of it to the people who read this blog (and the rest directly to Danny Sullivan). Mystery Guest...

One of the Most Talked About Incidents at Pubcon
Rand Fishkin

One of the Most Talked About Incidents at Pubcon

As always, it's the dramatic moments that get the most press. At Las Vegas' Pubcon this year, one of the most talked-about moments was Matt Cutts' introduction at the podium during the Super Session at the end of (day 3) Thursday. I got a few emails through the suggestion box asking if I'd make a post on the topic (and heard plenty of buzz at the conference itself). Let's hope my memory se...

Rand's Unofficial Guide to Speaking at SES
Rand Fishkin

Rand's Unofficial Guide to Speaking at SES

More than a few speakers have written to me asking about the SES conference series - how they should prepare, what they should bring, how the conference is organized for speakers, etc. There's an irony here that shouldn't be overlooked - when I was a first-time speaker (just a couple years ago), I had these same questions, and plenty of nervousness. I'm going to address this purely from an SES ...

A Collection of Rand's Search-Related Comics
Rand Fishkin

A Collection of Rand's Search-Related Comics

Over the last 3 years, I've made more than 2 dozen unique presentations. Anyone who's seen these knows that one of my signatures is an attempt at humor. Occassionally successful, often dismally sad (particularly with British audiences) and universally tacky, embedded comics have been a mainstay of almost every Powerpoint I've authored. For no other reason than to share, I've collected s...

What I Learned in Guelph
Rand Fishkin

What I Learned in Guelph

Last week, I spend three days on the road, visiting a client in Guelph, ON. My job was to train a staff of 20+ web publishers, designers, content creators and managers on the things that we at SEOmoz do best - viral marketing, site/content development, usability/design analysis and social media marketing. The training itself was excellent - better than many of the training sessions I've conduct...

Seattle's Web 2.0 Roundtable
Rand Fishkin

Seattle's Web 2.0 Roundtable

Last night I attended Seattle's small (but growing) Web 2.0 roundtable, hosted by the kind folks at Wetpaint. The traffic was a bit tough, due to a Mariners game across the street, but we managed to start right around 6pm and the hours flew by. The companies represented included: PayscaleTheir site isn't as "open&...

Why is Michael Martinez an SEOmoz Blogger?
Rand Fishkin

Why is Michael Martinez an SEOmoz Blogger?

During the past few months, I've received more than a few emails asking me about Mr. Martinez's position on the SEOmoz blog. At the SES conference in San Jose, a small handful asked the same question - here's the response I gave them: Michael's views and opinions are not mainstream. They don't always have the kind of logic that's easy for many of us to follow (myself included). Michael'...

My Bet on WebmasterRadio
Rand Fishkin

My Bet on WebmasterRadio

During the expo hall last Tuesday at SES San Jose, I sat down with Matt Cutts for a 5 minute, impromptu chat on the air. Foolishly, I issued a challenge that anyone who sumo-wrestled me at the WebMasterRadio party on Wednesday night (Jim's got great photos here) and won would earn the right to a free link from...

All Play and Some Work at SES Latino
Rebecca Kelley

All Play and Some Work at SES Latino

Sorry for the delay, but I didn't realize how truly indispensable I was until I left town for a few days. Once I got back it was nothing but, "Rebecca, Rebecca, the company almost went under without you! Fix this! Help me! Where are my yellow Pumas?" Okay, now that I'm done with my illusions of grandeur, the following is an exhaustively comprehensive recap of my trip to Miami for the ina...