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Two Cents on Personalized Search
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Two Cents on Personalized Search

Have you paid any attention to personalized search yet? If you stay logged into one of your Google accounts such as Gmail, your search history will start to accumulate. As your history grows Google starts to modify the SERPs that they send you in ways that they think will be more pleasing. I first noticed this a few days ago when Google seemed to know which site belonged to me in the SERPs....

SEOmoz V3 Podcast
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SEOmoz V3 Podcast

This is a podcast highlighting all the new stuff we've added to SEOmoz with the launch of our new site. I tried to cover all the new features we added, including explaining MozPoints and the details of our premium membership. SEOmoz Version 3 - New Bells and Whistles ...

Taking Advantage of Google News
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Taking Advantage of Google News

Google News can be a powerful tool for finding super targeted websites to get amazing traffic from. I know I am not alone when looking for places with great authority to send me traffic so, I think this tip could be beneficial for those frustrated with figuring out great places to get started with press.I am not taking anything away from the typical PR sites like ...

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Guillaume's Round-Up of SEOmoz's Best SEO Training Posts - Part 1
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Guillaume's Round-Up of SEOmoz's Best SEO Training Posts - Part 1

I just spent the last 5 hours going through 30-35% of the entire SEOmoz posts because we're training new interns here, and I wanted them to get a good idea of the whole concept of SEO, some known people, and I basically went through the last 600 articles published by SEOmoz, as well as a few other sources. This is like the wrap up of the most insightfuls only SEO related posts in the ...

Online Advertising Needs to Evolve
Rand Fishkin

Online Advertising Needs to Evolve

Jeff, Scott and I had a lengthy, post-work discussion today about online advertising today. We discussed the usual issues: The more you use the web, the more immune you are to advertising AdSense (and YPN) prey on the naivete of users - savvy visitors don't click these It's very, very hard to find a good advertising model on the web ...

Elite Retreat & Competition
Rand Fishkin

Elite Retreat & Competition

The team behind the Elite Retreat conference series has been diligently requesting some press coverage of their San Francisco event in March. I have to say that I'm extremely impressed to hear that they've recruited Guy Kawasaki to speak, and certainly the speakers themselves (Aaron Wall, Darren ...

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A Visit to Google Kirkland
Rand Fishkin

A Visit to Google Kirkland

Danny Sullivan was in town over the weekend and on Saturday night, Vanessa Fox from Sitemaps invited Mystery Guest and me over to Google's Kirkland offices. We had a ton of fun and got to meet some new (and very friendly) Googlers. Just a few photos: ...

Predicting Search Queries Before Demand Arrives
Rand Fishkin

Predicting Search Queries Before Demand Arrives

In the stock market, analysts and traders buy, sell and trade shares in companies based on the speculation of future earnings or declines. Stock pickers attempt to determine which investments will rise and fall based on publicly available information. Slate magazine recently pointed out that even the best stock pickers, however, are generally terrible ...

Link Ninjas vs. Bait Pirates
Scott Willoughby

Link Ninjas vs. Bait Pirates

Last week Jim Boykin wrote yet another article critical of Link Baiting, insisting that stealthy, steady link building by a Link Ninja was a much more effective strategy. While traditional link building is a necessary evil, I feel it is my sworn duty to make a case for the awesome pow...

It's Time to Graduate From the Bunny Hill
Rebecca Kelley

It's Time to Graduate From the Bunny Hill

Stick with me here, because this post relates to SEO...I promise...I went snowboarding for the first time last year. Despite growing up in Michigan, where I could have driven up to the UP (that's Upper Peninsula to you folks who don't point out your hometown on your hand) to hit the slopes, I had never snowboarded or skied before. The first time I tried snowboarding, I went...