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Having access to data and large data sets is something any SEO worth his salt craves. Sure, managing a massive dataset or database can be a bit of a hassle, but having good information is key and there are a handful of uses for other people's/sites' data sets that are readily available for purchase online. Big budget linkbuilding isn't the only way to spend your SEO budget these days! Le...
The ultimate SEO factor: the human factor. I was lucky to attend the ProSEO Training Days by Distilled/SEOmoz in London on the 25th/26th of October. It was a wonderful occasion to see so many things recapped, that I have read in blogs, forum and chats; to learn some new things about SEO and to finally meet the people I talk with (too much?) online.
Happy Halloween mozzers! Oh, Roger wants me to tell you: "Trick or treat!" Actually, this week we've got a lot more treats than tricks for you. Our treats will even help you overcome some of the nasty trixes of the SEO world. Jen Lopez, our Community Manager at SEOmoz, is here to tell you about some of the scary SEO mishaps that could happen to you if you're not careful!
The London SEO PRO seminar organised by our friends over at Distilled and SEOmoz was a fantastic success, all of the presentations were packed with helpful insights into both search, and the marketing industry as a whole.
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There are a lot of great posts and resources about the rel canonical tag, but they can be hard to identify with a simple search. Even if you break through the clutter and find something truly useful, the current information can be hard to separate from the old. The web has been missing a current top-to-bottom resource on the rel canonical tag. In this post, I’ll do my best to cover it all...
One of the best ways to develop users’ engagement is through online community of target audience. Users’ engagement leads to repeated visits. Repeated visits lead to brand retention. Brand retention leads to brand loyalty and brand loyalty leads to more sales and leads. So if you want to increase your sales, leads or brand loyalty then you need to engage with your target audience. A...
This week in London, Distilled's Will Critchlow and I held our 4th "presentation-off" battle against one another as the final session of the PRO SEO Training Seminar. We both put plenty of blood, sweat and tears into our decks and I think it shows. Enjoy: ...
A few years back my parents became heavily involved in a Kenyan Orphanage. Through some contact’s they helped raise the funds for the build and have since carried on raising funds for the day to day costs and further developments. With talk of a website re-build on the cards I started to think about ways in which I coul...
Have you considered using Yahoo Answers to try and drive some traffic to your website / blog? Yahoo Answers has become a very popular network for knowledge thirsty question askers and knowledge soaked answer-meisters, and they are all potential visitors for your site. This article aims to provide a detailed look at some tips / tricks for becoming the glowing Yahoo Answers guru you've always wan...
Ask any SEO and they will tell you just how important it is to do keyword research. Not only do you need to find keywords that are related to your niche but you need to figure out which ones are actually obtainable for your site. Everyone talks about the “low hanging fruit” and maximizing the long tail keywords. What about the juggernaut keywords? Which keywords are arguab...
SEOs have faced a dilemma in the past: AJAX is great for users, but not so good for search engine spiders. In this post, I'll show how you can use Google's 'Crawlable Ajax' proposal to allow Google to properly crawl your AJAX-enhanced website - and show examples of sites that are already using this.
Everyone loves metrics! Even more so, everyone loves taking action! After all, that's why we have Action Man, international man... of action. This week, Rand helps you become an action man or woman yourself - that's right, we're talking about you! In this week's Whiteboard Friday, Rand discusses two metrics that you may not be using.
Years ago when I started studying and doing SEO, I came across a lot of varying opinions on the best ways to rank a website in search results. The most common discussions at the time were between "black hat" and white hat" strategies. You know the difference in the two - black hat uses tactics that are shady or underhanded to achieve results, where white hat follows best practice...
What is it we SEOs do? Most of our answers probably boil down to this; we help webpages rank higher at search engines by improving each of the three cornerstones of SEO. The first aspect; technical problems - like indexable content, meta robots tags and URL structures - has been cracked by SEOmoz’s awesome web app. Suddenly we can get a complete dashboard of errors to go and sort - easy.