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I was recently inspired by a post by MikeTek, Examining the Top 150 In-Linked Posts at SEOmoz. While the information was very informative, it was taken from a limited sample of the over 3,800 post on SEOmoz. Along with the small sample size, the data was not proportiona...
As a webmaster of a small business website, I get a lot of SEO's calling me, touting their services.One of the claims many make is that the traffic from organic searches converts better than that from PPC searches. I currently handle all of our search engine optimization as well as PPC management. Having never tested the theory, I cranked up Google Analytics and started rummaging thr...
Rand recently published a post discussing 17 ways a search engine values a link. His number 5 reason referred to Domain Authority and caused a little stir within the comments trail as to what Domain Authority actually meant and where the proof of its existence has been seen. The aim of my first YouMoz post is to provide an example of where ...
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1) What is the internal linking structure? - The way the pages of a website link to each other.2) Why is the internal linking structure important? To make Google understand what are the most important pages from your website. You know which the most important pages are, but does Google know? If the internal linking structure is good, a...
Wondering how to win rank and influence users? Well, if you have multiple pages from one domain ranking in the same SERP, a little bit of optimization may help you get a coveted indented listing.
This post is about three pretty interesting things in my book; opportunities at SEOmoz, a new kind of duplicate content, and me. Despite the cleaver title, this post is not about SEO. You've been warned, OK?
This post helps bloggers think about techniques to increase the number posts read by each of their visitors.
I'm in the middle of a wild 6-week stint. First Oslo for a week, then home for 4 days, then SMX East and a week in New York City. Tonight, I'm back in Seattle, but only for a few days - our SEOmoz/Distilled London semi...
I’m sure many of you are like me and one of the first things you do in the morning is head to SEOmoz and check out the blogs. Along with seeing the new posts, I'm also always checking out my MozPoints and watching them grow, or shrink sometimes. In one of my past ...
The word 'incentive' is defined as a ‘positive motivational influence’. The purpose of this post is to explore the different kinds of user behaviour that can be encouraged with incentives. Although this will hopefully include links as a helpful byproduct, the advice focuses more on increasing user interaction and engagement.
We're getting close to the end of the year, which means halloween, holiday parties and spending time with the family... That is unless you're a mozzer! The fall season has hit us full swing and we're out and about speaking and attending conferences, providing training and traveling from Sweden to Mexico to Vegas baby! Check out where we'll be over the next few months and hopefully we'll see you there!
Single-Purpose homepage designs are on the rise. This post covers the benefits and runs through examples of successful implementations along with a discussion of potential SEO impacts.
Last week I spent Wednesday at ad:tech in London where I spoke about advanced analytics and online reputation management. I thought the online reputation stuff would make a good Monday morning post. The audience was mainly brand and advertising people so I didn't assume too much knowledge of SEO or ORM, but instead ran through why you would want to monitor for your brand, how to determine if something is going to be a problem and some tips and tricks we've picked up along the way. I wanted to start with something topical so I used some examples from London Fashion Week (including brands and models) to demonstrate the impact of news events (interestingly, I found no significant correlation between spikes in search volume for the brands or models during fashion week).