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So it's a new year (doesn't 2010 feel like the future?!) and it's a new you. As Pete blogged last week plenty of new year's resolutions are being set. For many this may involve getting a better or job or getting paid more money. This post is for you. Hopefully by the time you've read this post you'll have some ideas to tu...
This week Will Critchlow is back to help Rand talk about best practices for keeping your clients (and yourself) happy during consulting contracts. It's important to start early (setting expectations, contracting, agreeing on KPIs), maintain good communication, and follow through on deliverables. Happy clients mean more business, improved reputation, higher demand and more success for you.&nb...
One often-ignored part of SEO is making invisible pages visible. When I say 'invisible', I mean pages that have received zero clicks from organic search results.If you can find those pages, you can decide:To keep them, but work to raise their organic search profile;To keep them, but use more of their link juice to help other, higher-profile p...
In last week's Whiteboard Friday, Rand and I started by discussing how to gain true insight into what kind of keywords are leading people to discover your brand and ultimately driving conversions for your business (clue: it's probably not branded search phrases, despite what your analytics reports are telling you). Today, I'm going to demonstrate one way of measuring this more accurately in Google Analytics.
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SEOmoz shares internal traffic statistics from 2009, as well as conversion rate mistakes and opportunities to apply in 2010. In addition to analytics data, the post also has 11 actionable conversion takeaways.
A couple of weeks ago I published a post titled "Tests Show PageRank Sculpting with Nofollow Still Works" where I argued that a test that I had run showed that nofollow was a legitimate means for sculpting PageRank. When I originally wrote and posted the blog entry, I full-heart...
Google recently began a pilot program to further cement the ties between its online search functionality and the physical world. Last month, the company distributed window decals to the most popular 100,000 or so locally listed businesses. It is easy to view this program cynically--as ...
To make a valuable impact, SEO has to be understood by more than just an organisation's search marketers. This post suggests how to explain the concepts, and get buy-in, from different people within an organisation.
Inspired by a great post by Vaidhyanathan, I began answering questions on Yahoo! Answers near the beginning of this year. Since then I have answered over 50 questions, nearly always related to metal roofing. Nearly 12 months later I sat down and did a study to find out:...
Inspired by the Anatomy of a URL post, a pretty URL is great for SEO but requires more from a custom website than installing changing a wordpress setting. Luckily, the setup is not that difficult since most websites have two primary levels of design: a webpage, and a filter. For the technical folks, we will be using a feature...
There's always debate: should you focus on your big head terms, or those wide-ranging tail terms? We've invited one of our best mozMates, Will Critchlow of Distilled, to join us for a look at how to balance your keyword strategy.
Not all Google traffic is made the same - some sources send tons of clicks, some send highly converting clicks, and rarely the twain shall meet. Sometimes, you find the strangest things when you don't expect them. Case in point: in November, we were looking into some statistics for Google traffic through our ad network (Chitika), and found that people who click the &...
Beware. This article is not a get rich quick scheme or a way to cut corners, rather a process of building links which is inspired by my roots in graphic design and a desire to give back to the SEOmoz community. Arguable the hardest task any SEO encounters is link building, suggested by several SEOmoz.org ...
In this post, my goal is to walk you through the process we used, the feedback we received and the final results and decisions. Fundraising is a demanding, lengthy, emotionally charged process and something that challenged me personally more so than any other single part of my life in the last 5 years. I hope that by sharing my experience I can help others who start down this road and give you an idea of what to expect. The more knowledge you have, the less fear can hold you up; that’s what this post is here to accomplish.