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As increasing number of searches have local intent behind them, Google is showing Places listings in many more SERPs. This presents an opportunity to either gain a spot on the first page for many businesses or to gain more space on the first page for companies already ranking on the first page. Here are five t...
Last week, Rand discussed the importance of correlation data in general and how you can use it for SEO research. It's a lot easier to get things done if you know which tasks are high priority and which are low, and correlation data can help. This week, Rand finishes...
Marketing is best dissected into two easily digestible states, as the dichotomy of these states, static marketing and active marketing, form the clearest view of the failures many marketers make. Some of these mistakes may seem minor, but at scale, they make for tectonic marketing failure, as I will discuss in more detail in this post...
Hey Mozzers! A quick introduction for those of you who don't know me: my name is Sam Crocker. I work for a global media agency called OMD and am based in London. In addition to our work on (primarily) enterprise SEO clients we also occasionally find time to work on our search and social blog. I am an avid consumer...
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Whether you call it "Panda", "Farmer" or the "Anti-Demand-Media" update, Google is clearly making a push to reward "better" content. So the question becomes, how do you acquire better content? Buy It One of the reasons that content farms were started in the first place is because quality writing is expensive. Good writing re...
Well hello there friends, it's been a few weeks since we've chatted about our new PRO Q&A forum. To be honest, over here at the MozPlex we've been pretty blown away by the volume and amazingness of both the questions and answers going on in there. Every one of you who has jumped in deserves a huge round of applause! We've been getting great feedback and have heard from a number of pe...
One of the most helpful aids in doing SEO is knowing what factors actually affect your rankings. It seems obvious on its face, but not everyone prioritizes their SEO work with the knowledge of how changes to a site and link profile actually affect the SERPs. It's important to at least have some heuristics to use in pursuit of higher rankings, and while it's not always easy, it is possi...
This is my first YOUMoz post so please bear with me if I bore you to death. Everyone in the SEO industry seems to have this odd fascination with discovering the most important ranking factors employed by search engines. I even remember at SMX Advanced a year or two ago in Seattle that
Since last December's admission from Google + Bing's search teams regarding the direct impact of Twitter + Facebook on search rankings, marketers have been asking two questions: What signals are Google + Bing counting? How much influence do these social signals have...
We're bringing our conference series to the East Coast. You can now book tickets for Pro SEO Boston 2011 - on the 16th / 17th May. We've brought together the most advanced speakers we can find for two days of actionable, tips-based content and new stuff you've never seen before. You'll see Rand and me battle it out in another head-to-head as well as a load of brilliant speakers bringing their "A" games.
This is the story of SEOmoz, as I have heard it by sitting in the first row of a small but very attentive audience at the LUISS University in Rome, Italy. The storyteller is Rand Fishkin himself, the father and founder of an SEO company which has become synonym of high value tools and services, competence, and a natural inclination to share valuable information before asking something in return.
First of all, thanks to everyone who played along with our little April Fool's prank last week. I apologize if we made the tool seem a little too real. As penance, I thought I would offer a sneak peek at a new feature that is still in the advanced planning stages.I've heard from many SEOs that one of their more time-consuming tasks is the generation of spreadsheets to analyze why certain..
I hate webspam. I hate what it's done to the reputation of hardworking, honest, smart web marketers who help websites earn search traffic. I hate how it's poisoned the acronym SEO; a title I'm proud to wear. I hate that it makes legitimate marketing tactics less fruitful. And I hate, perhaps most of all, when it works. Here's a search for "buy propecia," which is a drug I actua...
As an in-house SEO for Marriott.com for the past six years, I've been an avid SEOmoz blog reader, yet this is my first post. I've chosen to cover something near and dear to my heart – Google Maps. While there have been countless blog posts and articles written about the accuracy and accountability of Google Maps,...