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Today’s post is part inspired by a brilliant question that came up recently in Q&A. The question was based on targets and objective setting for SEO’s and it went something like this: What metrics should an SEO’s monthly objectives be based on? Having spent a good portion of my SEO career managing SEO teams in-house, this question really re...
We've been hearing some requests lately for some really advanced, expert-level content, and this post is here to deliver. I've built up a short list of topics that deal with more cutting edge SEO, and if there's interest in this series, I'll try to make it a regular part of the blog. These tactics aren't black or gray hat (we're not advocates of that kind of thing), but they're very specific in...
Whew! The Spring conference season is in full swing, and the mozzers are coming soon to a city near you. You'll find us anywhere from Charlotte, NC to Barcelona to Singapore in the next couple months. The coolest part is that we're attending and speaking at some conferences for the very first time. It feels good to get out and stretch a bit! Plus, the developer in us will be attending conferenc...
There's been some talk recently in the SEO industry about 'crawl allowance' - it's not a new concept but Matt Cutts recently talked about it openly with Eric Enge at StoneTemple (and you can see Rand's illustr...
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Last week we updated the Linkscape index, and we've been doing it again this week. As I've pointed out in the past, up-to-date data is critical. So we're pushing everyone around here just about as hard as we can to p...
We theoretically know which factors influence Googlebot visit frequency. It is definitely page link popularity, domain popularity (or trust), the frequency of changes on a given website, and other. Theory is good, but as usual we wanted to test it in practice. But first of all - a question - why is Googlebot visit frequency so important? We are first on SERPs for phrases that we w...
The history of web analytics has read a bit like the quest for the Holy Grail. We've gone through a list of candidates searching for the one true metric: Hits, Page Views, Visitors, Unique Visitors...
As you probably heard, Google announced last week that they are working on a browser plug-in to let users opt-out of Google Analytics tracking. But th...
Lots of us keep hearing about how video is such a compelling medium and a great way to engage your customers. Not long ago Rand presented a Whiteboard Friday Video where he covers some of the basics around video SEO, like the trade offs between using a third party site, or hosting the video yourself. In the following post, I hope to add a little more to that topic and talk about some additional strategies that combine these ideas - starting with a 3 step process to help you get started with creating a video strategy for your website
My personal foray into the SEO world is still in its early days after I joined an SEO company last September. I had previously worked in the digital department of a PR agency working on social media campaigns after joining on their graduate scheme. I made the move to SEO in the hope of finding an area which provided more concrete, tangible results rather than the often flimsy output of the ...
The SEOmoz Advanced SEO Training Series is back with our latest installment, Tips, Tricks & Tactics 2! Picking up where Volume 1 (now in it's second printing) left off, Volume 2 is bigger, badder and loaded with 8 discs worth of training material to advance your SEO skills. Intended for those see...
This morning I gave a presentation at SES New York on a session entitled "How to Become a Link Magnet." Below, I've copied the presentation into this post and hope to create some context around it. In my opinion, the "link magnet" concept, however it's phrased, is one of the most powerful...
In many ways, SEO has always been entwined with conversion optimization. Rankings and traffic metrics may often be in the foreground, but the implicit understanding is that SEO is all about winning more customers.But a funny thing happened on the way to the checkout—or lead acquisition, as the case may be.Two disciplines evolved independently, SEO and conversion...
I was at a recent client meeting for a new project and we were brainstorming ideas. After considering all kinds of wacky schemes, plots, techniques and tactics we came up with what is, in essencce, a very simple linkbuilding technique. In the interests of openess I wanted to share it with you, I'm just nice like that :-) This idea works best when you are working in an industry where the...