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Black Friday: Thanksgiving’s Annual After-Party. It’s almost here--the shopping party that consumers have been waiting for since last Christmas! As the unofficial opening of the holiday shopping season, the Friday after Thanksgiving or “Black Friday” is hands-down THE most promoted day of the year.
Along with quality content ideas and relationship building, the Blogger Outreach Equation can help place your content in the hands of top tier publishers to get your company's message and thought leadership out to the masses. Kelsey Libert lays out the steps to show how the Blogger Outreach Equation can work for you.
Managing SEO and content engagement strategies take a significant amount of time and effort to plan and execute. Get the most out of your hard work by integrating open social collaboration into the process to not only produce better work, but to improve your organic search results.
If you watch your rankings closely, it's hard not to sometimes feel like Google is messing with you. Are they just injecting random change to keep SEOs busy? I try to put this to the test with two experiments.
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We use many tools to tailor our Twitter use, but how can we accurately measure the lifespan of a tweet? Peter Bray digs into the data and uses retweets (i.e. the currency of Twitter) to predict just how long your tweet's prime of life will be.
Since the infamous Penguin Update, many webmasters have been scrambling to remove backlinks Google may have penalized them for (a.k.a. high risk links, toxic links, bad links, etc.). But how do you determine which links are toxic and should be removed?
The days of SEO being all about gaming the search engines to rank for terms are over. To truly win in the long term, we have to focus on building branded traffic. This is especially true of small companies and startups.
The November Mozscape index is now available! Check out the Mozscape data that is now fresh in Open Site Explorer, the Mozbar, PRO campaigns, and the Mozscape API.
If you follow the Google algorithm, you've heard the name Barry Schwartz. I've had the opportunity to get to know Barry a little while working on MozCast, so we interviewed each other about the current and future state of the algorithm.
At SEOmoz, we're always trying to improve our customer service by keeping our customers as happy as possible. Aaron Wheeler, our Help Team Leader, discusses lessons learned in customer service at last month's UserConf and touches on what's to come from our amazing Help Team.
I recently added Google's Remarketing snippet to my website. While there are a number of great guides out there on what retargeting is and why it's so powerful, I found myself spending a lot of time getting lost in the Google Adwords UI and trying to set it up. Once I figured out how to do it, I wrote this super short guide on how to get it up and running. It will take you about 10 minutes.
Social signals are paving the way for the future of search, but just how much influence might they have on the SERPs? To understand where we're going, it's time to look at how social signals are currently affecting rankings and take the necessary steps to improve them on your website.
Building a solid foundation and gaining "likeability" with your clients can sometimes be the difference between a failed or successful project. Check out these five tips to help boost client relationships and build partnerships that will last a lifetime.
Joost de Valk gave a talk this week at SEO Day in Cologne, Germany, about optimizing for clicks, not just rankings. The premise of the talk was: SEOs tend to think their job is done when they’ve got their top 3 / top 5 listing, when in fact you’re only half way when you’ve reached that mark.