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Action Items for the Engines from the SMX Conference
Rand Fishkin

Action Items for the Engines from the SMX Conference

It feels cruel to give the search engineers at Yahoo!, Google, MSN & Ask more work, but I know that sometimes they might not have the best project tracking or distribution software, so I figured I'd be kind and make a list of items that need attention here in the blog, and they can refer to my post when they're wondering what to do with all their free time. ...

SES Toronto and the Canadian Search Landscape
Rebecca Kelley

SES Toronto and the Canadian Search Landscape

After SMX, training Frenchies, SES Toronto, and getting sick, I'm back in the office attempting to tackle a mountain of tasks (I've never empathized with Rand more than I do right now). Jane and I will soon publish the so-late-it's-just-ridiculous coverage of SM, but for now I want to talk about SES Toronto and the Canadian Search Landscape session. This session was pretty rife with...

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Danny Sullivan Popped My Cherry (and I Helped Him Pop His)
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Danny Sullivan Popped My Cherry (and I Helped Him Pop His)

It all began with a judgmental cabbie and a striptease. To be fair, I'm not really from Kansas like I told that cabbie. [I was born there, I live and work about 3 minutes from the state line, but really, it was just easier to tell people I was from Kansas because most people don't know that most of Kansas City is in Missouri. Plus, I was trying to emphasize the flatness--Kansas is way...

How to Handle a Google Penalty - And, an Example from the Field of Real Estate
Rand Fishkin

How to Handle a Google Penalty - And, an Example from the Field of Real Estate

Last week, I interviewed the head of Google's spam team, Matt Cutts, about a lot of different issues. One of the most intriguing to webmasters appears to have been the discussion in the 2nd video (around 6:00) where we go into a chat about the real estate industry online, where thousands of websites have recently lost rankings due to participation in egregious manipulation through reciprocal li...

The SMX Diaries Special Edition: The SEOmoz Party
Scott Willoughby

The SMX Diaries Special Edition: The SEOmoz Party

Tuesday night, following the close of the inaugural SMX here in Seattle, SEOmoz threw a party for our Premium Members, Friends and Colleagues. Our Members got to bowl, play pool, mingle and kick back a few drinks with some of the biggest names in Search including Tim Mayer, Matt Cutts, Greg Boser, Bruce Clay, Todd Malicoat, Jim Boykin, Todd Friesen, and many more, including the one-and-only ...

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New SEOmoz Feature:  SEO Q&A
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New SEOmoz Feature: SEO Q&A

We're launching a new section for our premium members this morning: SEOmoz Q&A. This is a place where premium members can ask the SEOmoz staff SEO related questions and receive tips, advice, or just get pointed in the right direction. It works a bit like a trouble ticket system: discussions are opened, closed, rated, and eventual...

How to Deal with Pagination & Duplicate Content Issues
Rand Fishkin

How to Deal with Pagination & Duplicate Content Issues

This post has been a long time coming - there's a definite need to address internal duplicate content issues in an intelligent, simple, illustrated manner. I'm hoping that you'll be able to show this to the boss (or, more likely, the engineering team) and help them achieve that critical "AHA!" moment required for all true progressive changes. Fundamentally at issue is the crea...

The SMX Diaries III: The Ken Jurina Interview
Scott Willoughby

The SMX Diaries III: The Ken Jurina Interview

Where were you on the night of June 5th, 2007? This time around, Rand talks with Epiar's Ken Jurina, one of the sharpest minds and snappiest dressers in all of search. They discuss Epiar's new software and the business model that's evolving from it. Listen up, people, the Canadians are taking over. This installment of The SMX Diaries may look a little more...

The SMX Diaries II: The Neil Patel Interview
Scott Willoughby

The SMX Diaries II: The Neil Patel Interview

Back so soon? Oh Yeah! The SMX Diaries just keep on comin'. In Volume II, Rand interviews Neil Patel about the rise and fall of Digg and how to work around their famous hatred of SEOs and other marketers. There's more where this came from so keep an eye out. I'll try and get one more up today and then, tomorrow, we'll have a super-sized, two-part installment of ...

Leaking Rumors... SES, SMX & Speaker Exclusivity
Rand Fishkin

Leaking Rumors... SES, SMX & Speaker Exclusivity

Usually, I don't like to post unsubstantiated rumors because the potential for trouble is high and it's often not worthwhile. However, this time I'm posting with the express goal of stopping the situation from becoming a reality (or at least requesting a re-think). Here's the deal... Today at the SMX conference, two sources that I trust told me independently that last week, the folk...