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As people in relationships spend time with each other they start to leverage each others natural strengths to efficiently store information about the world around them. "Honey, what is the name of my Aunt's employer?" "Babe, what do you call that thing that heats bread?" They rely on each other to store information that is mutually beneficial. Some believe this p...
Earlier this year we asked the community to take the SEO Industry Survey. We had originally hoped to get at least 3,000 responses and were completely blown away when over 10,000 people ended up taking the survey! Of course, it never hurts to wave an iPad in front of a search marketers nose.With this survey we wanted to fin...
The race for governor positions across the US is on, and in California it has been a hotly debated race between Republican ex-eBay CEO Meg Whitman and Democratic mediocre-record-producing Jerry Brown. I'm going to vote for a California governor this Tuesday, and while I was doing my research on the candidates, I can't help but to notice how they're doing in search & social. So I poked around in some data, and here's what I've found about what people want to know about our California candidates and how well they're addressing their audiences through search & social channels online. PEOPLE L...
Imitation is underappreciated in today’s business world (and, as we'll later see, in SEO). For example, did you know that: - Coca Cola imitated RC Cola in replicating its diet cola product - Visa and Mastercard imitated the credit card concept from Diners Club - McDonalds took the fast food chain concept from White Castle T...
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Having access to data and large data sets is something any SEO worth his salt craves. Sure, managing a massive dataset or database can be a bit of a hassle, but having good information is key and there are a handful of uses for other people's/sites' data sets that are readily available for purchase online. Big budget linkbuilding isn't the only way to spend your SEO budget these days! Le...
There are a lot of great posts and resources about the rel canonical tag, but they can be hard to identify with a simple search. Even if you break through the clutter and find something truly useful, the current information can be hard to separate from the old. The web has been missing a current top-to-bottom resource on the rel canonical tag. In this post, I’ll do my best to cover it all...
One of the best ways to develop users’ engagement is through online community of target audience. Users’ engagement leads to repeated visits. Repeated visits lead to brand retention. Brand retention leads to brand loyalty and brand loyalty leads to more sales and leads. So if you want to increase your sales, leads or brand loyalty then you need to engage with your target audience. A...
This week in London, Distilled's Will Critchlow and I held our 4th "presentation-off" battle against one another as the final session of the PRO SEO Training Seminar. We both put plenty of blood, sweat and tears into our decks and I think it shows. Enjoy: ...
Have you considered using Yahoo Answers to try and drive some traffic to your website / blog? Yahoo Answers has become a very popular network for knowledge thirsty question askers and knowledge soaked answer-meisters, and they are all potential visitors for your site. This article aims to provide a detailed look at some tips / tricks for becoming the glowing Yahoo Answers guru you've always wan...
Ask any SEO and they will tell you just how important it is to do keyword research. Not only do you need to find keywords that are related to your niche but you need to figure out which ones are actually obtainable for your site. Everyone talks about the “low hanging fruit” and maximizing the long tail keywords. What about the juggernaut keywords? Which keywords are arguab...
SEOs have faced a dilemma in the past: AJAX is great for users, but not so good for search engine spiders. In this post, I'll show how you can use Google's 'Crawlable Ajax' proposal to allow Google to properly crawl your AJAX-enhanced website - and show examples of sites that are already using this.
Everyone loves metrics! Even more so, everyone loves taking action! After all, that's why we have Action Man, international man... of action. This week, Rand helps you become an action man or woman yourself - that's right, we're talking about you! In this week's Whiteboard Friday, Rand discusses two metrics that you may not be using.
What is it we SEOs do? Most of our answers probably boil down to this; we help webpages rank higher at search engines by improving each of the three cornerstones of SEO. The first aspect; technical problems - like indexable content, meta robots tags and URL structures - has been cracked by SEOmoz’s awesome web app. Suddenly we can get a complete dashboard of errors to go and sort - easy.
Last night at the SEOmoz meetup in Avi Wilensky's incredible office space, a frequent topic of discussion both during the presentations/Q+A and in smal...