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There's no such thing as a free link. Whether it was the time taken to craft that blog post, the cash used to film that viral video, or even just the opportunity cost of thinking about how to build links, there is an investment involved. For my first post here at SEOmoz, I want to talk about how a small business might approach the investment into link building.
Although I am not an advocator of breaking Google’s guidelines, there are times when many SEOs (and myself included) will either give in to temptation, or if the niche is particularly competitive, simply have no choice but to divulge into a little bit of link buying to stand a chance of competing with websites that are ranking highly on the basis of an aggressive link buying strategy....
For the past few years, I've given numerous presentations introducing SEO to new audiences of marketers, engineers and executives. With the end of SEOmoz's consulting business this past January and the completion of our final contract obligations this Spring, I thought it would be wise to share the 190+ page deck to hopefully help those of you who are tasked with introducing SEO to your co...
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For a long time, if you asked me about spamming the search engines, whether with hardcore black hat tactics or merely gray hat link acquisition, I'd say that in the long run, neither was the right move. Building a great site and a great brand through hard work, white hat links, solid content and marketing strategies has always been my path of choice. It still is today, but my faith is definitel...
Social Media marketing can be likened to herding cats or catching greased pigs – there are so many sites, so many activities, and so many connections to be made. Where do we focus, and why? Can we manage social media marketing? By developing processes, the marketer can more easily share the work across a team of individuals, make documented improvements over time, and help sel...
The team at SEOmoz has been hard at work this week, smoothing out a lot of the initial bumps we've seen with our beta launch of the new web app. We anticipated the app would be popular, but I don't think any of us were prepared for just how many keywords needed rank checking/grading and pages needed crawling/error-checking. Our queue to fetch ...
Following on from my debut SEOmoz blog post on How to Get Links in Tough Industries, I wanted to go into a bit more detail about the processes you can use to find people who are likely to link to you. Using the right processes to identify the leaders in your industry can give you a much better return on your time spent link building. This is for two reasons - You ar...
In this week's Whiteboard Friday I talk about pitching SEO to potential clients and employers. This post describes the common elements that unite the successful pitches I have witnessed and describes how you can use them to your advantage. Also, I shaved my beard and now look like a 12-year-old boy. (I don't recommend that as a pitch tactic.) ...
If you've been using SEOmoz's tools for a while, you've likely come across the same frustration that many of us have - they're great, but it's such a pain to run a separate tool and separate report for each aspect of your SEO. That's why, for the past year, we've been working towards building a new platform to house all of the features and functionality of the SEOmoz toolset (and lots of new st...
Imagine an elderly grandmother – we’ll call her Grandma Moz. She’s about to make her very first online purchase. She’s used a computer before, but feels some anxiety giving out her personal information over the internet. Then, just when she’s about ready to enter her credit card number, the following message pops up: ...
This week I pretty much have two things on my mind: beta launch and conferences. Since Rand will be covering the beta launch later today (wheeeeee) I thought I'd focus on the conferences. Along with preparing for our own PRO Seminar later this month, we've been discussing the various conferences we'll be attending and speaking at over the next few months. Personally I'm getting excited for SES San Francisco next week.
I've had the chance to talk to lots of folks who are just starting out building new web businesses, many of them for the first time and a few with some experience under their belt. What worries me is that a lot of these new businesses are reversing the SEO order of operations; making it 100X more difficult to succeed than need be.
I'm a science guy at heart, and one of my favorite things about SEO is getting to play with Analytics data and using it to solve problems that my clients (and I) have. With all of the data that Google Analytics provides us with, it can become easy to get lost in all of the different ways to display, slice, and dice our data. However, if armed with the right ways to manipulate and 'massage'...