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Remarkable Openness from Google's Black Box Thanks to Saul Hansel
Rand Fishkin

Remarkable Openness from Google's Black Box Thanks to Saul Hansel

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...

Whiteboard Friday - "Chinese Searchocracy"
Scott Willoughby

Whiteboard Friday - "Chinese Searchocracy"

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...

SMX Seattle and then SES Toronto
Rebecca Kelley

SMX Seattle and then SES Toronto

Danny Sullivan's long-awaited and much anticipated Search Marketing Expo conference kicks off next week with SMX Advanced in Seattle. Matt, Scott, Jeff, and Gillian all have Expo Passes, while Jane and I will be covering the conference for our blog and Rand will be speaking on the "SEO, Meet SMM" panel w...

Soft Cloaking: META Tags, Robots.txt & Sitemaps
Dr. Peter J. Meyers

Soft Cloaking: META Tags, Robots.txt & Sitemaps

It's no mystery that people in the SEO world have strong feelings about cloaking. The very mention of an off-white hat tactic in one of my YouMOZ posts earned me multiple thumbs down and accusations of cloaking. One comment in particular interested me, though: someone suggested that they consider cloaking to be virtually any tactic that treats search engines differently from end-users. As...

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Search Engine Strategies - Xiamen China
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Search Engine Strategies - Xiamen China

Search Engine Strategies China was held in the beautiful resort town of Xiamen on May 24 - 25. KEYNOTEYvonne Chang, China Yahoo and Alibaba Vice President, was interviewed by Chris Sherman and Inway Ni for the Keynote address. Mr. Ni asked Ms. Chang to search for her name on Yahoo and she noted his blog was ranked...

Link & Ranking Strategies for Enterprise Sites
Rand Fishkin

Link & Ranking Strategies for Enterprise Sites

Tonight I'm back from Hong Kong and China, sitting at my computer in lovely, cool, wonderfully-clean-tap-water-spouting Seattle. There's a lot to come on Chinese search marketing from myself, Si and David Temple (who generously offered coverage of the conference for the blog), but, in the meantime, I know we need to get back to basics here at SEOmoz...

Presentations from SES Xiamen
Rand Fishkin

Presentations from SES Xiamen

As promised, I'm putting up my presentations from SES Xiamen 2007. There's so much to share about China that it's nearly impossible to put it into a blog post and thus, when I return home, I'll be writing a full article on SEOmoz about my experiences, the Chinese search market and what I ate (abalone, shark fin soup, camel, turtle, duck tongue, scorpions, starfish, jellyfish and many more)....

How to Market a Website with $100
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How to Market a Website with $100

Patrick Sexton (aka feedthebot) over at SEOish contacted a few big names in the search marketing industry and asked: "What would you do if you only had 100 dollars to market your website?" This excellent read includes responses from Aaron Wall, Andy Beal, Andy Hagans, Kid Disco, Lee Odden, Tod...

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Are Bloggers More Connected Than Journalists?
Rebecca Kelley

Are Bloggers More Connected Than Journalists?

Plaxo, a "smart address book" service provider, recently published their second Connected Index, which is a list of which job titles have the most connections based on the average number of contacts in their address book. 15 million Plaxo members' address books were used for the study. Unsurprisingly, talent agents were reported to be the most connecte...