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Knowing Black Hat SEO
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Knowing Black Hat SEO

You should know the characteristic of black hat SEO clearly. Knowing this will avoid your websites being banned by Search Engines. 1. CloakingWhen website or web pages are set up to display different content for a search engine spider versus a human user. Cloaking delivers one version of a page to an Internet user and a different ...

Can a Great Blog Make for a Great Book?
Rand Fishkin

Can a Great Blog Make for a Great Book?

Every month, I have at least a dozen people tell me that I need to write a book. The SEOmoz blog is great, they'll say, but a book has the power to connect with an enormous audience, and besides, they'll continue, I need something to read on the plane. I've finally come to the realization that they're right. Despite my frenetic schedule, packed with travel, clients, in-house projects, e...

Public Media 2007 Conference Wrap-Up
Rand Fishkin

Public Media 2007 Conference Wrap-Up

The Public Media Conference in Boston proved to be one of the most unique audiences I've ever spoken to. Rather than webmasters and business owners, the crowd consisted primarily of reporters, station executives and public media contributors. These folks share the interests and goals of traffic, branding, influence and connection, despite the difference in focus (profit vs. relevance & fund...

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SEMpdx SearchFest '07 in the Hizzy
Rebecca Kelley

SEMpdx SearchFest '07 in the Hizzy

In about a week and a half, Rand and I will be road-tripping to Portland to attend SEMpdx's day conference, SearchFest. Rand has reached a near-godlike status in the conference sphere, in that he was asked to speak at the conference and is allowed to pick a topic of his choosing. As a result, Rand will be performing his one-man show, "Fishkin: Whitehat, Ho...

Understand Your Customers: Personality Types
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Understand Your Customers: Personality Types

I really believe that in order to make more sales and be a better marketer, better business man or woman, or network marketer, you have to understand your customers!How do we do that?One of the things i learned while working in sales, marketing and customer service, is to identify the personality type your potential or existing customer belongs to. There are 4 ba...

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In Web 2.0, Fostering Community Creates Value
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In Web 2.0, Fostering Community Creates Value

More and more, quality content is becoming less scarce and the ownership of that content is becoming less valuable. With media 2.0, web 2.0, community 2.0, open source development, and the rest, content creation has become easier and the barriers to distribute that content are eroding away. Content is moving toward commoditization. Moreover, sites that still strangle...

24 On-site SEO Checkups For Clueless Developers / Marketers
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24 On-site SEO Checkups For Clueless Developers / Marketers

Although this will seem, to many of you, a very generic list of SEO on-site tips, you may be surprised to see how many SEO consultants and web developers overlook or forget these basic steps when launching a new site. These twenty- four On-site search engine optimisation checkups/tips can assure that any link building / link baiting efforts that will be made will give great results.

Overheard at SES London
Rebecca Kelley

Overheard at SES London

Much like how I shared The Best Things I Overheard at SES Chicago, I thought I'd enlighten the readers with the best, funniest, most outrageous, or downright random things said and heard at SES London: “What dialect did he speak?”--Rand, asking about an unintelligible Brit t...

Some Basic Truths I Have Learned
Jane Copland

Some Basic Truths I Have Learned

... and here I am in Seattle. No great arches. No grand museums, galleries or cathedrals. Only one iconic tower. While Scott and Rebecca have been drinking with SEOs in London and Chunneling it to Paris, Jeff, Matt and I have been sitting in our office, glaring glumly at a Western Washington sky that was blue this morning and is now pissing down with rain.

How to See Paris in Seven Hours
Rebecca Kelley

How to See Paris in Seven Hours

As you may have read, Scott and I made an early campaign for Worst Mozzers of the Year by abandoning our sick boss to trainset to Paris. Though we seem like horrible, horrible employees, enough people (including, hopefully, Rand) got a kick out of it to motivate me to share with you all a step-by-step...