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Mark Scott wrote me this morning to ask about recommendations for an SEO "routine" - putting together the process for all the tasks required to successfully implement search friendliness, targeting, marketing and all the other elements of SEO. I'm happy to oblige :)
At SEOmoz, we've got a fairly standard process for sites we build and market (internally) that goes something li...
A few years ago a webmaster did not have many choices available to have a search solution for their websites. That has changed dramatically, but up to last year or so ago the free site searches provided by Yahoo and Google were less than ideal. They interrupted your visitors experience by taking them to a search results page that looked entirely different than the page they were on. ...
Way back in November of last year, I asked if there was some worthy soul out amongst the Internet Marketing world who would take on the monstrous task of gathering truly comparable data from the major analytics providers simultaneously, side-by-side, on several websites and publishing the findings.
Well... Ask &...
Two weeks ago, I spent 90 minutes on the phone (a lifetime for me) with Epiar's Ken Jurina and Curtis Dueck (they're in a video with WebProNews here). They walked me through their propietary and incredibly advanced, internal SEO software, explaining how they're able to provide&...
E-commerce has, for the most part, evolved far beyond the late 1990's cliches of hair-wrenching, sanity-shattering slogs through yet another "clever" designer's take on how shopping on the web should be. Standards prevailed, usability won out, and we're now free to spend our collective $107 million (Census.gov e-commerce sta...
A couple weeks ago, just for the hell of it, I emailed several SEOs and asked them the question they've waited their entire careers to hear:
If you inherited SEOmoz, what would you do with it? Rand Fishkin is out of the picture (he left SEO to pursue his dream of becoming a master chef, he eloped with Mystery Guest, he got sued by Puma, whatever), leaving you to run SEOmoz and ...
Time to wham bam you all with a little roundup post of odds, ends, and miscellaneous news.
First off, Jane and I are "guestwhoring" next Wednesday (5/9/07) on Sugarrae's blog while she's getting drunk and lifting up men's kilts in Scotland. At this point, I don't think either one of ...
I have recently been pushing to be moved more into the SEO arena at work (I am currently a developer). SEO is something I have studied and practiced on my own sites for many years.So when my boss approached me about doing the online marketing for a campaign we are running I became very excited and jumped at the chance. Unfortunately my enthusiasm was greater than my ability in PPC. I did learn ...
Matt McGee (who I owe a link to for winning the SEO group NCAA tournament bracket back in March...damn you, Florida) wrote a fantastic post over at Small Business SEM called "I Have My Keywords...Now What?" It's concise, it's to the point, it's magical. Read it. Seriously. Click over to it and read it. ...
I've had more than a few people tell me they really missed our old advertising page, not because we sold any ads, but because our monthly traffic, search and referral stats were always there and relatively frequently updated. As consolation (and since I always did intend to keep SEOmoz's stats as public as possible), here's an exhaustive roundup of important analytics data (from Indextools) for...
My favorite Cameron with an unconventionally spelled last name (other than Cameron Frye in Ferris Bueller's Day Off), Cameron Olthuis, wrote a post on Search Engine Land called "5 Reasons to Put Viral Content on Mini-Sites." Now, obviously Cameron ...
A couple weeks ago, Sara Smith of Search-This interviewed me for her Podcast and it turned out terrifically well. Subjects include:
Paid link reporting - Will it have a big impact? Who will it influence?
Edu & Gov Links - Are they more valuable than regular domains? Why does the Page Strength Tool use them?
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Last week I chatted with Levi from Wordze about the keyword research tool he built. Levi, who's chummy with SEOmoz's resident black hat blogger G-Man, is a programmer who tinkered around with various keyword research sites and decided to build his own.
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