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Four Ways to Enforce Your Copyright: What to Do When Your Online Content Is Being Stolen
Sarah Bird

Four Ways to Enforce Your Copyright: What to Do When Your Online Content Is Being Stolen

One of the most common problems facing anyone who publishes content online is copyright infringement. It's happened to me. It's happened to you. And it'll probably happen to this post too. (Oh, the irony!) What can you do when your copyright is being infringed? Don't get sad. Get letter-writing mad! There are four ways to stop someone from stealing your content. Before we dive into each of those methods, I want to preemptively address some caveats, complicating factors, and limitations of the "four methods" approach.

Kids, Plug Your Ears! I Am Going to Talk About SEO P_rn!
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Kids, Plug Your Ears! I Am Going to Talk About SEO P_rn!

Okay . . . so I did a round of interviews this week with fairly decent success (though, if I am still unemployed in a month then I guess it wasn’t successful after all, lol). Who did I meet with? Sorry, not divulging that info because frankly most readers of this blog are outstanding SEOs and could turn into my competition for the positions. Note: For the handful that do kn...

Everything is Judged By its Cover: Classified Ads and "Title Tags"
Jane Copland

Everything is Judged By its Cover: Classified Ads and "Title Tags"

Every time I research something using classified sites, I'm surprised at two things: Firstly, very few people understand the first rule about writing online advertisements, which has to be getting people to click on the ad. Secondly, it surprises me that even thought I know some of the ads might contain great content, I rarely click on ads that are badly worded. Surely I've been doing this long en...

Thursday Roundup for the Week of 1/6/08
Rebecca Kelley

Thursday Roundup for the Week of 1/6/08

For our first roundup of the new year, I've decided to change the format a bit and present the links first. I've also included notable YOUmoz entries from the last week, so hopefully you folks will enjoy the weekly YOUmoz roundup in addition to the other stuff. Stories, news, and other notable items from the past week: Three star links: ...

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Vanessa Fox is One Smart Cookie
Rebecca Kelley

Vanessa Fox is One Smart Cookie

Yesterday Sarah, Christine, and I went to Ignition (the VC company who gave us funding) to attend an SEO seminar taught by Vanessa Fox (who recently got scooped up by Ignition). The room was packed full of folks from various Seattle startups and tech companies, and after we all stuffed our faces with pizza and beverages, the learnin' began. Va...

Which Do YOU Need: Traffic or Customers?
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Which Do YOU Need: Traffic or Customers?

Doing business on the Internet means you have an unlimited audience -- it also means you have many competitors. Thankfully you also have numerous options to build your personal path to success on the web. They fall into two rough groups: Traffic and Customers.Building TrafficTraffic is all the people that ...

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Dell Whines About Tasting and Accuses Domain Churners of Destroying Evidence
Sarah Bird

Dell Whines About Tasting and Accuses Domain Churners of Destroying Evidence

Dell has stepped in where I-CANN and Verisign have feared to tread by filing suit against one of the largest domain tasting networks. Dell did everything right to put itself in a good position for this lawsuit. Unfortunately, documents filed with the court last Friday, January 5, 2008 indicate that Dell may lose the case despite its efforts. Part I of this post talks about Dell v BelgiumDomains, LLC. Part II of this post asks a few questions about domain tasting.

The Best of the SEOmoz Blog 2004-2007
Danny Dover

The Best of the SEOmoz Blog 2004-2007

For those of you who don't know me yet, my name is Danny and I am SEOmoz's intern. I have spent the last several weeks reading and categorizing all the blog posts written over the years on this site. It has been quite the project and has let me really experience how this company and the SEO industry as a whole have evolved. I, like the other mozzers, am a stat junkie and kept notes on notable tren...

Whiteboard Friday - Why Your Viral Content Isn't Working
Scott Willoughby

Whiteboard Friday - Why Your Viral Content Isn't Working

Howdy, Gang, and happy 2008 to you all! Here we are with our first Whiteboard Friday of the New Year and it's one that many viral marketers out there should pay close attention to. This week, Rand discusses what it takes to make viral content and linkbait hit home with users in order to gain links to boost your rankings, rather than just landing on the front pages of social media sites...

Politicians: Four Years Late to the SEO Party
Jane Copland

Politicians: Four Years Late to the SEO Party

It's the second of January and those of us in the United States are already pretty tired of hearing about November's Presidential Election. I'm sure the rest of you are, too. The world of social media is already flooded with stories about the U.S.'s political dramas and I can only imagine that if you're in any other country, today's offerings at Reddit might not interest you all that much. Current...