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Competition breeds our biggest and brightest ideas, an example being the battle between Google and Facebook. As of this morning, Google has stepped up its efforts to provide current and relevant search results by refining its "Social Search." Going forward, social search result...
Since last December's admission from Google + Bing's search teams regarding the direct impact of Twitter + Facebook on search rankings, marketers have been asking two questions: What signals are Google + Bing counting? How much influence do these social signals have...
We're bringing our conference series to the East Coast. You can now book tickets for Pro SEO Boston 2011 - on the 16th / 17th May. We've brought together the most advanced speakers we can find for two days of actionable, tips-based content and new stuff you've never seen before. You'll see Rand and me battle it out in another head-to-head as well as a load of brilliant speakers bringing their "A" games.
Inspired by this cool experiment on how google ignores the first anchor text by Errioxa I decided to set up an experiment of my own, to further look into the issue of how google treats links that include anchors (e.g. site.com/index.html#paragra...
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Sure, you know SEO like you know the back of your hand. You know how to linkbuild, and you know how to do keyword research. Of course you've got a lot of SEO knowledge - you've been watching these Whiteboard Fridays every week, right? Well, now it's time to get crackin'! Unfortunately, it feels like you never have enough time to get done all the things you know you should do. Maybe the...
Google Webmaster Tools have a popular function called "Pages crawled per day". This function can show you how many pages Googlebot crawls every day by presenting you a straightforward chart. This tool is awesome because crawling in some way can determine the indexation of your site, so it is always important to know how well your site is being crawled.
This is the story of SEOmoz, as I have heard it by sitting in the first row of a small but very attentive audience at the LUISS University in Rome, Italy. The storyteller is Rand Fishkin himself, the father and founder of an SEO company which has become synonym of high value tools and services, competence, and a natural inclination to share valuable information before asking something in return.
A question that I get asked quite a bit is something along the lines of "what link building tools do you use?". The honest truth is that I don't use that many on client sites every day. I've certainly paid for and used quite a few over the last few years, but when I first started in SEO, I didn't have the cash to buy tools or subscribe to them. This forced ...
The Hacking Attack My blog got hacked and injected with a folder containing 645 pages, all full of auto-generated content, loaded onto plagiarized templates and linking to about 1700 different websites - making it difficult to discern which are the spammers' own and which are legit. I asked about crawling these pages in the Pro Q&am...
How did an entire SEO industry not see Google Panda coming? Google told you so...
First of all, thanks to everyone who played along with our little April Fool's prank last week. I apologize if we made the tool seem a little too real. As penance, I thought I would offer a sneak peek at a new feature that is still in the advanced planning stages.I've heard from many SEOs that one of their more time-consuming tasks is the generation of spreadsheets to analyze why certain..
I hate webspam. I hate what it's done to the reputation of hardworking, honest, smart web marketers who help websites earn search traffic. I hate how it's poisoned the acronym SEO; a title I'm proud to wear. I hate that it makes legitimate marketing tactics less fruitful. And I hate, perhaps most of all, when it works. Here's a search for "buy propecia," which is a drug I actua...
As an in-house SEO for Marriott.com for the past six years, I've been an avid SEOmoz blog reader, yet this is my first post. I've chosen to cover something near and dear to my heart – Google Maps. While there have been countless blog posts and articles written about the accuracy and accountability of Google Maps,...
Over the past couple of weeks Rand has been discussing the metrics available for link research and how to use them appropriately for different research situations. This week, he discusses some potential pitfalls in link...