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Similicious
Rand Fishkin

Similicious

Another site that plugs into del.icio.us - similicious provides data about the folks who've tagged your site. For example, with SEOmoz, it shows that taggers also found sites like A List Apart, Particle Tree, and 24 Ways interesting. It's a good way to ...

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BlogInfluence Calculations
Rand Fishkin

BlogInfluence Calculations

Came across BlogInfluence which purports to give a score to indicate your blog's relative level of importance in the sphere. The rough calculation is based on the number of Technorati and Yahoo! links you've got, added together with Bloglines subscriptions and multiplied by a factor that uses Google's PageRank. It's certainly not a perfe...

Delicious URL History
Rand Fishkin

Delicious URL History

Del.icio.us has a new (or at least, new to me) URL history tool that tell you who's posted what about the site/page in the past and what they said about it. The history for SEOmoz is bland, but some others are more interesting (WARNING: The service is very slow): Note t...

Experience with Internal 301s
Rand Fishkin

Experience with Internal 301s

Just wanted to start on a thread on the subject of internal 301 re-directs. What's been your general experience when re-directing a page or set of pages to the "canonical" or new version? How long have the engines taken to catch up? For us, I've noticed that Google takes between 2 and 6 weeks to recognize and properly index, although the rankings seem to follow fairly directly...

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Aggressive Use of Your Homepage
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Aggressive Use of Your Homepage

Lots of sites have a very simple homepage design. Google is a perfect example of this. However, I have found that loading up the homepage with information has increased sales, pageviews, visitor time-on-site, and linkbuild rate. (Rand and Matt's new design for seomoz.org - shown at right ...

BlogBurst Distribution Channels
Rand Fishkin

BlogBurst Distribution Channels

I stumbled onto (yes, literally with the StumbleUpon toolbar) Blogburst today and was relatively impressed with their content partners. The idea is that you submit your blog and the content (if accepted) gets fed to large publishers like the Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Hou...