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It's 9:30am and you've just started a pitch for a new SEO client. They're the curious type - wanting to know how search engines rank pages, why the changes you'll recommend will make an impact, where you learned to do SEO, and who you can list as good examples of your work. As you dive deeper into the requirements for the project, you arrive at the link building section. The client wants to kno...
Before I begin, I would like to emphasize I had never before done SEO. I had no clue about the terminology used, and I was never part of the club most of you have been in for a while. I have a tentancy to ramble, but I assure you it is all relevant to my tale of mystery, drama, and eventually, wonder. So please bear with me. I am not trying to bring new information to the table, rather I am try...
In a down economy, it's easy as a business to stick your head in the sand and hope for the best while your peers run screaming "The sky is falling!". All you can do is hope that you're still alive when things turn around, and then you can go back to the way things were. Except that things will no longer be the same, and you'll have a whole other uphill battle infront of yo...
The time has come to register for the London PRO Training Series 2009: Tips, Tricks and Tactics. Building on the success of the recent Seattle event, we have gathered in London some of the best SEOs around and given them strict instructions to make their presentations as actionable and tips-focussed as possible. It's time to get your ticket for 19th-20th October.
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One thing that you'll hear over and over again in the SEO industry is "make sure that you embed SEO in your business". I know I've said it a lot at conferences and in client meetings but what does it actually mean? Well this post is chock full of tips to help you actually embed SEO in your business. Since I've not long come back from the Seattle SEOmoz Pro Training Seminar (which was tot...
From worthwhile industry reads to actionable YOUmoz articles, there was an abundance of scintillating reads this week in the search world.
Freshness seems important, but what signals does Google use to determine freshness? Do the spiders pay attention to on-page signals, such as dates in body content or URLs? I thought it might be fun to try and find out.
In present times when the word “crisis” is repeated so often, tracking the performance of the website is getting even more important. Working a lot on SEO & web analytics of different classified businesses all over the world, I try to sum up what web metrics are really crucial to evaluate website properly. The advantage is, you can also measure them with free tools such as ...
It's a common dilemma: When the engines constantly cry 'content! content! content!' you can start to wonder, "just how am I supposed to keep generating all of this unique content?" A daunting challenge to be sure, especially for large sites with high-volume pipelines to fill. In this week's Whiteboard Friday Rand takes a look at the three major content classification...
From Oprah's affiliate smackdown to Fox News' list of jobs that will leave you friendless, there was no shortage of interesting news this week in the world of search.
Just before the , over the weekend, we updated the Linkscape index. This is great timing because we're also unveiling (to PRO members only, sorry free members) the prototype for a new tool! We're calling it competitive link finder. But Tom Schmitz was good enough to ...
We just wrapped up the first day of our Pro Training Series 2009, and what a day it was! I think most people would agree with me when I say that the speaker line-up was absolutely amazing!
Straight from the Seattle Lunch 2.0 meetup at SEOmoz on August 14th comes this light-hearted look at raising venture capital. SEOmoz CEO, Rand Fishkin, shares his experiences with raising capital with an amusing (but strangely appropriate) comparison to the dating scene. SEOmoz emerged from our first round of VC funding with a profi...
Have you been thinking about submitting to YOUmoz lately, but you're not sure what the benefits are? Or perhaps you have a killer post in your head but are afraid to take the next step. Whatever the reason is that you've been holding back, I have 10 reasons why you should get yourself in gear and get that post written and submitted!