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A while back I wrote a post about setting yourself apart from the pack. The idea is basically what can you do to make a name for yourself in the online community. Just blogging and commenting on different forums is good but one person do to stand out from the rest?How To Stand Out Look for opportunities around you to see if you can take adv...
Linkscape has always been a project with a lot of promise. Building a crawl of the WWW that can expose link data in interesting ways, calculate metrics in the ways search engines do and surfacing potential SEO opportunities are all a part of that. Last week, Linkscape took a giant leap forward in usefulness with Nick Gerner's new ...
I would like to start this post by admitting that I went against the NoFollow recommendedation in Danny Dover's excellent SEOmoz post "SEO Best Practices: SEOmoz's New Policies Based on Updated Correlation Data"I also flew somewhat against the wind being ge...
Freshness seems important, but what signals does Google use to determine freshness? Do the spiders pay attention to on-page signals, such as dates in body content or URLs? I thought it might be fun to try and find out.
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Well, it wasn't easy.Harvesting backlinks is hard but harvesting quality backlinks is much harder. Why people would give you links for free? Why people in your industry will do so without asking for a favor in return?Family firstWe always go for new backlinks, new websites, new partnerships and so on, but what about our old backlinks? do they s...
Whitespark is an Edmonton Search Engine Optimization and Web Design Company in CanadaHaving recently returned from the SEOmoz Pro Training Seminar Series, I wanted to recap a few of the things I learned, and create a list of actionable items that I need to start implementing in my SEO business. I'm writing this for my own reference, but...
In present times when the word “crisis” is repeated so often, tracking the performance of the website is getting even more important. Working a lot on SEO & web analytics of different classified businesses all over the world, I try to sum up what web metrics are really crucial to evaluate website properly. The advantage is, you can also measure them with free tools such as ...
Over the years, I've heard a number of recommendations for SEO given out that I simply don't understand or find logically flawed. I thought it might be interesting to share some of these and hear more perspectives. It could be that I just don't comprehend the reasoning or haven't thought things through, but I personally don't recommend these, so it's worth at least a discussion. #1...
For those of you who were unable to attend the SEOmoz Conference this week in Seattle, I thought I would share my experiences and thoughts about my first SEO immersion workshop put on by Rand Fishkin and company.
It's a common dilemma: When the engines constantly cry 'content! content! content!' you can start to wonder, "just how am I supposed to keep generating all of this unique content?" A daunting challenge to be sure, especially for large sites with high-volume pipelines to fill. In this week's Whiteboard Friday Rand takes a look at the three major content classification...
I wasn't able to attend SMX Advanced this year. This really bummed me out. So I followed the event online and gleaned as much information as I could by following their Twitter hash tag and the multiple live bloggers at the event. It was awesome! While I would've much preferred to be in the audience, I got a ton of great information from the event from the comfort...
Inspired by Jennita's post, 10 reasons to submit to YOUmoz, This is my first post so I hope everyone likes it. I am fairly new to my SEO career. After being laid off from a totally unrelated field in December 2008 I was asked by a local business owner whom, I knew socially if I "knew anything about Internet mark...
From Oprah's affiliate smackdown to Fox News' list of jobs that will leave you friendless, there was no shortage of interesting news this week in the world of search.
Just before the , over the weekend, we updated the Linkscape index. This is great timing because we're also unveiling (to PRO members only, sorry free members) the prototype for a new tool! We're calling it competitive link finder. But Tom Schmitz was good enough to ...