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SEOmoz PubCon Happy Hour 2010
Jennifer Sable Lopez

SEOmoz PubCon Happy Hour 2010

It's November! Which here at the mozPlex means a few things: It's sunny and beautiful in Seattle [wait.. uhm what??], we're all getting ready for Thanksgiving and most importantly... PubCon is next week! As usual we're sending a big crew down to Vegas to speak, learn, network and of course party. Party Details When: Wednesday...

Google's Unspoken Failures Are Limiting Your Potential
Danny Dover

Google's Unspoken Failures Are Limiting Your Potential

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...

Search and Social Media FAILs by California Gubernatorial Candidates Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown
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Search and Social Media FAILs by California Gubernatorial Candidates Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown

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...

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5 Datasets You Can Buy and Use for SEO (and a few for free!)
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5 Datasets You Can Buy and Use for SEO (and a few for free!)

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...

Complete Guide to Rel Canonical - How To and Why (Not)
Lindsay Wassell

Complete Guide to Rel Canonical - How To and Why (Not)

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...

How I Built an Online Community From 0 to 1500+ Members
Himanshu Sharma

How I Built an Online Community From 0 to 1500+ Members

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...

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Find the Question to your Yahoo Answers!
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Find the Question to your Yahoo Answers!

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...

The 25 Absolute Most Difficult Keywords To Rank For - An SEO Nightmare
Nick LeRoy

The 25 Absolute Most Difficult Keywords To Rank For - An SEO Nightmare

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...

The Definitive Guide to Awesome Web Content
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The Definitive Guide to Awesome Web Content

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.