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In a recent visit to Bing Webmaster tools, I discovered that many pages on my site (including my home page) were being indexed as https:// rather than http:/ I had a look into my Yahoo Webmaster stats and discovered a similar phenomenon.Google indexed http pages only.Because I run a shopping cart on my site that requires https for certain pages, 301 redirecting the entire s...
It's that time again and we're happy to announce the 2009 SEOmoz PRO Training Series: Tips, Tricks & Tactics seminar is now on sale. Last year, we sold out within hours. This year - with a line-up including Todd Malicoat, David Mihm and Vanessa Fox - tickets will go even quicker.
I've gotten a lot of email recently from folks asking what they can do to get involved in the world of search marketing and SEO. Tonight, Mystery Guest and I attended the Seattle Job Social event and had a really interesting experience talking to people about SEOmoz, the positions we're hiring for (SysAdmins of the Northwest, please email us!) and ...
I have been following the keyword "Viagra" lately and have noticed a website creep up the ranking ladder. Most of the sites do belong on the front page of Google, such as: Viagra.com, Wikipedia, howstuffworks, etc. So... I was wondering how did http:...
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Bada-Bing, Bada-Google, Bada-Performance? The Pursuit of the Perfect Web 2.0 Brand Name With the advent of the beautifully onomatopoeic brand name Bing into the wider web language over the last few weeks (is it a rooted in US-Italian clichés, microwave sounds, a Google-baiting acronym or some bizarre Friends reference?), we&rsquo...
If SES and SMX London have been two key players of my SEO education this year, then SMX Madrid has definitely topped up my SEO Spanish terminology. This may sound strange coming from a Spaniard, but after I have lived abroad...
The aim of this post is to describe a few of the ways SEO agencies (or, indeed, in-house SEO's looking for more budget from the boss) can use SEOmoz to pitch and close SEO projects. We use SEOmoz at several different stages in our sales process. Pre Sales A customer rings up and says 'I want to rank first page for bicycle shop'. While t...
(Authors: Andres Torrubia, Antonio Parraga and Hector Rodes) The Problem with Classic Keyword Research When tasked with defining a keyword strategy for a given site, most SEOs will likely choose just a handful of keywords based on keyword research. If you are in a niche market, this approach may be perfectly fine but when you have a site that plays in m...
This week's Whiteboard Friday addresses everybody's new favorite topic: Google's "new" treatment of nofollow and how it creates a massive reservoire of lost link juice. Everybody under the sun has written about this (SEOmoz included) in the last couple of weeks, so...
"The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things: Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax-- Of cabbages--and kings-- And why the sea is boiling hot-- And whether pigs have wings." We can talk about the temperature of the sea and the possibility of winged pork some other time,...
There are some very different schools of thought out there regarding 404 error code pages. Some SEOs recommend: Never allowing them - 301'ing every error page back to the home page or an internal category level page to preserve the maximum amount of link juice (in case someone links to a broken URL) Letting any erroneous/mistyped URL 404. Something...
Many years ago, when I first started in the search marketing industry, several instances of the debate around "themed links" flared up, cooled off and reared their head again. Nowadays, it makes infrequent, though periodic appearances in the thinking, recommendations and forums of the SEO world, and I thought it would be wise to revist the issue, lay out the discussion points and get ...
Microsoft's rebranding of their search product as Bing and heavy marketing spending in support of its relaunch has led to significant attention being garnered for their latest assault on Google's near hegemony in search.
Last night we rolled out our latest Linkscape index update (we call it "index13" internally). From a data perspective we've got a few things wrapped in here that might interest you guys: 53 billion urls (our biggest index to date) 500 billion links Everything crawled within th...