5 Suggestions for Google Suggest
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More "Panda" Update Information Starting to Come Out
On Friday, Google posted an update on its Webmaster Central blog entitled "Providing More Guidance on Building High-Quality Sites". The piece expands on much of what Google has said about the Panda update since its original release on February 24th.
Optimizing Page Speed - Actionable Tips For SEOs and Web Developers
As I'm sure many of you will know, Page Speed has become a factor for ranking in the SERPs, however, for the engines it's not a make or break factor but I've always felt that it is for visitors. With a huge number of people using super fast broadband (and it's growing), patience for slow loading websites is being to fray. I personally hate waiting for a page to load and I'm sure my visit...
Cross-Domain Canonical The New 301?
About a year ago Google announced the release of the canonical tag to the SEO world. The canonical tag helps in solving issues with duplicate content by letting Google know that pages with the tag are copies of the original page. Now we can do this across different domains to let Google know where the original content originated from and give credit to the original content owner.
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Google Analytics Now Tracks Page Load Speed
Improving site speed is crucially important, Craig at Distilled recently wrote a phenomenal post site speed for dummies which really breaks down WHY improving site speed is a high ROI activity and there was a great Youmoz post recently published which explains HOW to improve page load speed: ...
How to Create Presentations Like Rand
Has anyone else noticed that Rand's presentations are getting better and better recently? Obviously he's been a great presenter for a long time, but I've noticed him upping his game recently particularly in the quality of the decks themselves. I obviously have a vested interest in watching how Rand does things. I am once again going head to head with him in Boston at our upcoming conference and again in Seattle at Mozcon in July.
Fat Pandas and Thin Content
The Panda update hit hard, and we've heard a lot about thin content. Here are 7 definitions of "thin" and what to do about.
10 Super Easy SEO Copywriting Tips for Improved Link Building
Want to know the secrets of SEO copywriting? Compare the two posts below, both written by the exact same SEO expert and each containing around the same number of words. Without knowing the subject, can you guess which post earned more links?
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Can we Predict the Result of a Referendum by Looking at Online Presence?
Here in the UK, we’re about to have a referendum. In their 2010 election manifesto the Liberal Democrats promised to bring in the Alternative Voting (AV) system and a referendum is the compromise they have reached with their Conservative counterparts. The question is, can we use online presence to predict the winner? Please note: While ...
Announcing MozCon 2011
Since 2006, SEOmoz has offered a summer training event in Seattle, WA. This year, our 6th, that event is becoming something truly unique - the search marketing industry's first customer conference. Mozcon tickets are now on sale (though quite a few have already sold to those on the waiting list) for July 27-29 - if you're in the organic web mark...
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Rocking Your Email List - A Success Story for Newbies
Hello everyone. I wanted to post this a bit ago, but with my move from the East to the West for a new job, this post has been delayed. But now I am one step closer to the Mozplex as I am now living in San Diego. : ) I still work for a family owned ...
Optimizing Your Google Places Page
As increasing number of searches have local intent behind them, Google is showing Places listings in many more SERPs. This presents an opportunity to either gain a spot on the first page for many businesses or to gain more space on the first page for companies already ranking on the first page. Here are five t...
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Google, Here's a Crazy Idea: Let People Buy and Sell Links!
One thing that have bothered me for some time, is how Google treat websites that buy and/or sell links. Not that I am a fan of buying or selling links. I'm proud to say I've never done either. But I cannot understand why Google chase black-hat link-builders, when they could make the algorithm take care of most of the link-building problem themselves. I studied cybernetics at the univers...
8 Open Positions at SEOmoz, Just Named Seattle's #6 Best Place to Work
Out of the many recent accomplishments that we've had, perhaps none is more exciting than the recent publicity we received from being named in Seattle's Top 10 Places to Work by Seattle Met Magazine.