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As diligent Search Marketers know, it's quite a good idea to get links from strong/trusted sites pointing to yours and combine this with building a single link or two from a large number of smaller websites.
In this interview from SMX Advanced 2009, Rand talks to mobile search guru, Cindy Krum, of Rank-Mobile. Cindy starts off by noting the excellent SEO Audits panel at SMX Advanced, saying it's one of the best sessions she's seen. Fortunately if you missed it there are lots of great writeups on the session (...
In this interview live from the floor of SMX Advanced 2009, Rand talks to Lindsay Walker from Canada's Web Shop about Microsoft's new search engine, Bing. Lindsay offers some good insight into how SEOs should go about learning how best to optimize for Bing, as well as some of the nice features it has for ...
Background I’m pretty sure that many of us on here are aware of the recent Go Compare case where Go Compare dropped in the SERP’s for their brand name for a few days. There was talk at the time that they were penalised for violating Google’s Terms and Conditions (TOC’s).
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David Mihm, Local Search guru and author of the new Local Search Ranking Factors, stops by Whiteboard Studios to discuss how business owners can get listed in Google's Local Search Results. Despite how powerful local and geo-targeted search has become, only a tiny fraction of businesses actually claim and veri...
It's been a long time since we had a differential diagnosis post here on SEOmoz, but we've been getting lots of comments and emails requesting some mysteries, so here goes: #1 - Who, Exactly, is Awesome, and Why? ...
I recently read jennita's excellent post, "URL Rewrites and 301 Redirects - How does it all work?", and thought a mod_rewrite example might be helpful to some. So, here's some example code of how I have used mod_rewrite to replace dynamic URLs with SEO friendly URLs.
After my post last night and the many follow ups from around the SEO sphere, I (along with most observers from the world of search) strongly anticipated clarifying statements from Google's representatives at the SMX Advanced conference. Unfortunately, there's very little to report. The best I have comes from secondary sources, albeit relatively trustworthy ones:
Whether you work from home as a web writer, or you go to the big corner office each day, web writers need to understand the science of search engine optimization and the art of writing to attract the attention of a human being – in 6.4 seconds, the average time a site visitor takes to evaluate the usefulness or interest of your client’s website.
I have been going back and forth with SEOmoz’s Danny Dover for the past couple weeks regarding a crawling error occurring within the site I am currently doing SEO for. He has been a tremendous help to me, and believes others may be having the same issues as I. So…low and behold, I’m going to discuss it here in hopes of finding others just like me and some further expertise on how to handle the situation.
Today's article from Search Engine Land: Google Loses "Backwards Compatibility" on Paid Link Blocking & PageRank Sculpting is a must read, but it's frustratingly hard to understand Google's position shift on the topics. In this post I'll talk briefly about ...
Recently SMX London 2009 happened. I was too busy feeling ill to attend but I did my best to follow what happened. One of the talks that sounded really good was by Mikkel deMib about hiding your site from competitors. He suggests emailing them, then using the email headers to get their IP address. I'm going to cover the code you can use to "deal with" such spies.
I recently attended Google I/O on Wednesday May 27th as I among the other approximately 4,000 attendees recieved a free Google Android Ion Phone as I wore my SEOMoz shirt from SMX Advanced 2008. Later I was having lunch with Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Land as well MG Siegler of TechC...
I've just got back from SMX London (when I say "just" I'm obviously referring to the Hangover, as I've been back multiple days), and It's probably the best event I've been to for all around value and enjoyment. Having to been to several conferences (Including 3 SES events) over the years though, I've come to the conclusion that, unless you are networking for clients, these events are not easy to justify the expenditure they incur. The problem most people in the intermediate-advanced tier face is hearing only what we know already; I spend a lot of these sessions sucking eggs now.