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Okay, okay, we had some fun last week with the SMX Party Video, but now it's back to business...well, as much as a Whiteboard Friday featuring Iron Maiden's The Wicker Man as the soundtrack can be considered business.
Rock n' Roll aside, Matt's back in SEOmoz Whiteboard Studios this week...
Last week, I received some very friendly correspondence from the Search Engine Strategies and Incisive Media organizations about my irresponsible post on speaker exclusivity. I knew that I had done wrong, and to make amends, I asked if Kevin Ryan, who was ...
I've just put the finishing touches on a new tool that I think is a killer addition to our current arsenal of SEO tools. It's basically a tricked-out version of the "Where's it Rank?" PHP script that I of...
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...
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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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
The first video in The SMX Diaries, Rand interviews Michael Gray (aka Graywolf) about Google, Webmaster Central and the first inaugural SMX. Stay tuned folks, the action and adventure that is The SMX Diaries will continue! ...
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...
I'm more than a little skeptical of mainstream media articles about the search engines. With so many terrible experiences - inaccuracy, bias, shallow information, agenda-based reporting - it's easy to see why. However, today I'm thrilled to see an article from Saul Hansel in the NY Times that's not only impeccably well-written, but informative to even those of in most deeply inside the search i...
Rand's back from China and makes his triumphant return to Whiteboard Friday. This week, he discussed the state of search in Asia, including who the major players are and how things are different from North American and European search. For more details about the state of search in Asia, take a look at Rand's SES China Art...