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After Nick announced the free Linkscape API I decided to write a SEO extension for chrome… I wanted to focus on all aspects of SEO and not just linking (like some other extensions) as well as a fast clean UI … I organized data from the page and external signals into 5 categories, Externa...
Tomorrow, at 8.30am PST (11.30am EST / 4.30pm GMT), I am going to be joined on the next Distilled conference call by Richard Baxter as we discuss "how to get the most from your SEO".
Last week, while in London, I received an email from Paul Graham, whom I've long admired, possibly even idolized a bit. He asked if I was available to come speak at a YCombinator SEO event in Mountain View. Tonight, I presented at that evented and thought I'd share my experiences, recommendations and yes, my presentation. Not everything that...
This post was inspired by Rand. If I'm honest, I'm not sure how many of my posts aren't inspired by Rand... Specifically however it was this tweet which set the wheels in motion (if ever so slowly): The link that Rand twittered was ...
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Last week I spent a day with small business owners in Glasgow (pronounced glaz-go), Scotland teaching the basics of online marketing and SEO. It was a remarkable experience to be faced with such a different crowd than what I'm used to. As a comparison, the week prior, I'd been in Mountain View presenting to the Silicon ...
I was really interested in one specific metric that Rand discussed in the latest SEOmoz webinar on Actionable Analytics. He mentioned that the number of keywords sending search traffic measured in increments (monthly, weekly) could be an indicator of whether or not content development positively influenced search traffic. Unique keyword growth suggests that content development on a site or oth...
This week we take a look at how shifts in the engines over the last year have made it more important than ever to really pay attention to brand-based marketing. A year or so ago, the engines started giving more weight to established brands, but things have become more interesting: With enhanced attention to personalized search, click patterns, and brand preferences emerging through ...
If you’ve not used it before, bit.ly is a URL shortening service which is popular with Twitter. Due to the 140 character limit in tweets, characters are a premium so services such as bit.ly, goo.gl, etc provide an easy way to shorten lengthy URLs.So, you’re probably wondering what relevance this has to SEO? Well after using bit.ly for a while, I’ve com...
This post is part of an ongoing series where my co-workers and I are working to build a freely available resource center of up-to-date SEO best practices. As we write this content, we are submitting them for peer review so that everyone on the Internet can benefit from collective intelligence. You can read more about the ...
It's time for a quick mid-week geek-out - I wanted to collect together a bunch of resources I have written on first touch tracking in Google Analytics including (for the first time that I'm aware of), the technical implementation details:
There's been a lot of talk in SEO about how personalized search affects the future of rankings, but it seems to boil down to one simple fear: does my client see the same rankings that I do? I decided to put this to the test...
When attending SEO conferences and reading blogs, two topics seem to persist between all the trending ones: link building and penalties. The two permanent hot topics are obviously related, as most penalties today seem to be caused by the backlink profile. Being hit by a penalty – whether it’s a complete ban or merely a -50 filter, is a frustrating process. It is indeed Kaf...
I'm pleased to announce that we've updated the Linkcape index with crawl data that's between two and five weeks old—the freshest it's ever been.
At SEOmoz, like many companies, we have a collection of internal documents related to our goals with the business and the ideals we strive towards. A couple years ago, I wrote a post about some of our efforts in that direction, but last year, we authored a document called "The TAGFEE Tenets" that represents more about what we want to be.