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Age of Site and Old Links
Aaron Wheeler

Age of Site and Old Links

Lately, we've been seeing a lot of chatter on forums about the age of domains and links. A lot of people think that, like a sagely seaman that acquires wisdom and whiskers as his years trickle away on the sea, domains and links gain value as they age. Sure, age could be a small factor, but as Rand will show you in this week's Whiteboard Friday...

Dealing With Faceted Navigation: A Case Study
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Dealing With Faceted Navigation: A Case Study

Faceted navigation is a pain in the @&$. Seriously. But then I looked to an authority site who I assumed HAD to be using faceted navigation to supply users with dozens of different kinds of combinations of different products: Amazon.com. This behemoth site is on nearly all of my search queries, not excluding the desired search terms of my emp...

How Many Links Per Page Is Too Many?
Dr. Peter J. Meyers

How Many Links Per Page Is Too Many?

There's a long-standing debate in SEO about the maximum number of links that you should place on any given page. If you use the SEOmoz PRO Campaign Manager, you may have seen a warning that looks something like this:[image 1]Digging deeper into the "Too Many On-Page Links" warning, you'll see the message:You should avoid having too many (roughly defined a...

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Creative Ways to Get Links from a Reluctant Target
Aaron Wheeler

Creative Ways to Get Links from a Reluctant Target

For this week's Whiteboard Friday, Rand is going to show you some great ways to start the new year out right by getting those links you so desperately crave yet, time and time again, are tragically denied. You can do a lot for your yourself by simply making a personal connection, openly communicating with your peers, and making other people's jobs a bit easier...

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5 SEO Tactics to Explore in 2011
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5 SEO Tactics to Explore in 2011

It's the New Year and I can guarantee there will be a ton of new people at my gym this week ready to work on their resolutions (and generally getting in the way ). In SEO, some resolutions might include working on personal sites (I might have a few abandoned sites...) or writing more blog posts. Resolutions have never really worked for me though. So instead of giving you SEO resolutions for 2011, I'd like to inspire some exploration in the New Year when it comes to your search marketing campaigns.

Top SEOmoz Posts, Comments & Users of 2010
Jennifer Sable Lopez

Top SEOmoz Posts, Comments & Users of 2010

Earlier this month we gave you the top SEOmoz posts from 2010 based on the total number of thumbs up, traffic, backlinks and tweets. But that wasn't enough, and the community asked for more! You wanted to see the posts with the most comments and the comments with the most thumbs up (as I screwed that list up in the last post). So I decided to even take it one step further and see which community members commented the most in 2010 also.

Linkscape is Faster, Link Analysis is Improved & Other Goodies
Jennifer Sable Lopez

Linkscape is Faster, Link Analysis is Improved & Other Goodies

Over the past few months our dev and product teams have been busy little bees working on some pretty exciting new enhancements and upgrades to the web app. Since it's the holiday season... we might even liken them to Santa's little elves building toys for all the good little SEOs around the world.[photo]We've been rolling out quite a few updates each week. Some you've probably not...

7 Predictions for SEO in 2011
Rand Fishkin

7 Predictions for SEO in 2011

It's that magical time of year when all of us who foolishly assumed the mantle of clairvoyance last December check up on our abilities and repeat our arrogant presumption again. Not surprisingly, something compels me to try again, despite the odds, but I am feeling a bit whimsical tonight, so let's make a game out of the prediction practice. For each prediction (mine and others), w...