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There are very few tactics which can guarantee success in linkbuilding. Executed correctly, giving something away is one that gets close to fulfilling that promise. This post covers competitions and giveaways; I'll share techniques and tactics you can use, and will include links to some interesting competitions seen online recently, and some that we've run for clients. Runni...
I'm Christian Arno, founder and Managing Director of translation/localization company Lingo24, and I'm delighted to report that Lingo24's search engine rankings are back up again, after a little while of being, well, not quite so high. Myself and a few others at Lingo24 started joking about how our relat...
This week Rand discusses recent changes that seem to signal the coming of another big shift in how the engines determine results. With the incorporation of social networks into results, increased personalized search, and even Google Buzz, the social graph is clearly becoming a more and more important factor for the engines. What will these changes mean for ...
One of the best new features of Google Analytics is Advanced Segmentation and well I must say that of the recent features available to make an analysts job easier, this is it. The biggest advantage of advanced segmentation of profile filters is that you can use this to refine data captured within Google Analytics, and it doesn't change or affect your existing or future data captured. ...
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The basics of SEO problem identification can be done in about 15 minutes. When completing this audit I recommend you take notes based on the action items listed in each section. This will help you later when you do a deeper dive of the website.
This article is mainly going to focus on the UK, so apologies to those of you who don't deal with UK telephone numbers on the sites you maintain. The US is, however, used for comparison.In the url=http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/do-all-your-business-telephone-numbers-work-as-published [ previous article ] I mentioned making sure all the numbers published online for your business are correc...
This blog post is geared at the analytics driven, SEO savvy, search samurai looking to implement tracking code best practices and take advantage of some useful Google Analytics plugins. The focus of this post is on Google Analytics, but many of the concepts are also applicable no matter which web analytics platform you're using.
The holidays are long over, 2010 is well underway, we've launched a new product, made a big announcement... and it's barely February! While our amazing development and product teams are busily building new tools as I type (and I'm not even kidding, those guys work a lot), some of us are hitting the road. For the next couple months, the SEOmoz team will be galavanting across the globe attendi...
Like 150 million or so other folks, I spent today watching the Superbowl. As a marketer, it's hard not to pay close attention to the advertisements, and this year featured a heavy focus on sending viewers to the web. However, I was a bit surprised that we didn't see anything like ...
Links. We often talk about why we want them and how to get them, but today I'd like to go back to basics and look at the constituent parts of the HTML code behind them. This is definitely a post for the new SEO, or web-developer looking to expand their experience, but even experienced search marketers may want to comment the nuances of some parts of the humble anchor tag's attributes.
A SHORT INTRODUCTION... We all know that the search engine robots more frequently visit popular pages, i.e. those that have the largest number of incoming links, both internal and external ones. The architecture of a website is usually correlated with the popularity of these pages expressed by number of backlinks:Home page has the most backlinks,1st ...
Probably the most fundamental shift in the business of baseball over the past 10 years has been the rise of "sabermetrics," as documented in Michael Lewis' Moneyball. The theory is that in an ove...
How do you get articles indexed and ranking in Google News? This blog post, which builds off the information provided in the Google News publisher help center and in Maile Ohye's awesome video on Google News, provides publishers with a basic primer of factors to consider before submitting articles to Google News.
I ran across this survey data eMarketer released last week and my heart sank: This first chart looks innocent enough. It's when you look at the next one (from the s...