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Improving on-site search functionality can benefit a site by contributing to a better user experience, and by reducing the barriers for users to reach their destination pages. In this post, I'd like to suggest some different techniques you can implement to get more benefit from your site search.
Selling is hard work. It sucks time and energy from both seller and buyer. Both engage begrudgingly in the act to fulfill a need. If you've been reading SEOmoz for a while, you can probably feel my personal allergy to "sales" as a process and to "selling," even when that's what I'm supposed to do. It causes discomfort to be on the pushing or receiving side of sales and over ...
Rand's in Jolly Ol' England this week, so I decided to share a preview from our upcoming DVD Training Series, "Tips, Tricks & Tactics: Volume 1," coming out in November. We filmed this series during our recent seminar in Seattle and the response was amazing. O...
The 1st half of October saw its fair share of search news, announcements, & blogger-mama drama. And from Twitter search to Google Analytics' new roll out, there were plenty of headlines beyond the back-and-forth between Derek Powazek & Danny Sullivan.
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Our web index, Linkscape, updated again recently, and in addition to provide the traditional stats, we thought we'd share some of the cutting edge research work we do here. Below, you'll find a post which requires extremely close and careful reading. Correlation data doesn't have all the answers, but it's certainly very interesting. Likewise, the ra...
We don't talk about email marketing on the blog much, but any of you working in the internet marketing space (and that's likely all of you) probably know that it's still one of the most effective marketing channels out there. We've been fortunate enough over the years to partner with ExactTarget for our email marketing services and ...
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 ...
Distilled and SEOmoz are sponsoring a LondonSEO event this Tuesday (20th October): * when: Tuesday 20th October, from 6pm * where: Crown & Sceptre pub on the corner of Great Titchfield Street and Foley Street * how much: FREE! (free entry and free beer)
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.