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The YouTube Experiment
Ben Ruedlinger

The YouTube Experiment

When I first suggested setting up a YouTube channel for our videos, I got a lot of sneers at the office. YouTube gets a bad rap (compared to a good rap) around our office. It’s probably because we’ve been soured by the comparisons between it and Wistia for business video hosting.

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Selling SEO is Link Building but with Human Links
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Selling SEO is Link Building but with Human Links

As SEO specialists we sometimes forget that selling SEO to potential clients is nothing more than building links. The difference is that we need to actually talk to someone, a living, breathing body that will ask questions, ponder, and sometimes become a great client. Selling SEO services to business owners and managers is a manageable and systematic process once you know what it is you are really doing. And what you are doing is just building “Human” Links.

Mozscape Update: Our Largest Index Yet, 159 Billion URLs
Andrew Dumont

Mozscape Update: Our Largest Index Yet, 159 Billion URLs

Over the last few months our engineering team has been working feverishly on a new index. Our crawlers were extremely successful, but, we ran into a few bumps in the road along the way. Those proverbial bumps shifted our expected launch date from the beginning of April... to today. It's not all bad, though. The new index went live today, and it's big. 159 billion URLs big.

Moz's $18 Million Venture Financing: Our Story, Metrics and Future
Rand Fishkin

Moz's $18 Million Venture Financing: Our Story, Metrics and Future

Today is a good day. Whether you're employed at Moz, a fan of what we've built, a Seattle-startup supporter or even tangentially involved in the field of web marketing, there's reason to celebrate. After 5 years of organic growth (from our initial funding in 2007) and two tough, failed attempts at financing, I'm excited to announce that SEOmoz has raised $18 million in venture...