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Revenge of the meta-tag!
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Revenge of the meta-tag!

Many people in SEO groan at the thought of meta-tags.After all, meta-tags for ranking is dead for SEO, isn’t it?Not quite.In fact, meta-tags have begun a startling revival.A couple of key points about why you should consider taking meta-tags more seriously:1. Google duplicate content filtersGoogle ...

The Multiheader - A Huge Trend in Homepage Design
Rand Fishkin

The Multiheader - A Huge Trend in Homepage Design

One of the biggest changes to homepages across the web, particularly with big brands, is the seemingly mandatory inclusion of the multiheader. Multiheaders allows multiple stories or features access to the primary visibility section of a homepage, and let visitors choose (through a click or hover) which featured piece they want to see. Let's take a walk through a few: ...

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URL.com - Innovating Community Search
Rand Fishkin

URL.com - Innovating Community Search

I ran into a kindred spirit at the SES conference in San Jose this summer - John Anderson. Smart, incredibly likable, motivated, and passionate about making the web a better place, I felt like I had known John for years after spending 10 minutes with him outside a session (this is one of my favorite parts of going to conferences). Over the past few months, John and a talented team of friends ha...

Greetings True Believers! The new guy says 'Hi'...
Scott Willoughby

Greetings True Believers! The new guy says 'Hi'...

Hey gang, Scott Willoughby here. As the latest addition to the SEOmoz team, Rand requested that I write a little introduction to let you all know who the new guy is lurking around the site.For those of you who've been astutely following the SEOmoz hiring saga over the last few months: I am indeed the silver-medalist from ...

Home Pages Disappearing from Google's UK Results
Rebecca Kelley

Home Pages Disappearing from Google's UK Results

Team Fresh Egg has noticed a strange phenomenon, and it appears to be an ongoing issue from at least August 2006. It seems that home pages (and only home pages) of .com sites hosted in the UK are disappearing from Google's results when you do a site: search and filter the results to only show pages from the UK. I've played around with various sites, and while the home pages pop up under the normal...

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An American in London
Rebecca Kelley

An American in London

Hello out there in Moz Land! Or, shall I say, "ello!" Now that I'm in Worthing with the legendary Ammon Johns and Co. (take that, SEO Fangirl!), I thought I'd take advantage of the free Internet access and update you all on the first part of my trip. Here's what I've been up to in the past five da...

What does the moz in SEOmoz mean?
Rand Fishkin

What does the moz in SEOmoz mean?

I think I get asked this question on average 4X per week, more during conferences and after we've been in the press and less when I hide in the cupboard and make Brandon answer the phones. It's certainly a valid one, though and deserving of a definitive answer. Here's what the "moz" in SEOmoz means: We're building off the history of organizations like DMOZ, ...

Rand's Unofficial Guide to Speaking at SES
Rand Fishkin

Rand's Unofficial Guide to Speaking at SES

More than a few speakers have written to me asking about the SES conference series - how they should prepare, what they should bring, how the conference is organized for speakers, etc. There's an irony here that shouldn't be overlooked - when I was a first-time speaker (just a couple years ago), I had these same questions, and plenty of nervousness. I'm going to address this purely from an SES ...

The funny little thing called TRUST
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The funny little thing called TRUST

Understanding and managing trust is an essential skill in search engine business. In terms of sociology, trust is the willing acceptance of one's power to affect another - allowing actions that otherwise would not be possible. Trust is a mighty tool when it comes to signing up new clients, achieving credentials and referrers or building a (social) network...