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One Page at SEOmoz out of the Sandbox
Rand Fishkin

One Page at SEOmoz out of the Sandbox

I've noted on several occassions that SEOmoz is largely sandboxed at Google. Despite having great, natural link popularity (thanks everyone!), the traffic from Google is on the order of 20-50 people a day, all of whom either typed in 'randfish' or 'seomoz'. Thankfully, at Yahoo! and MSN, the site ranks spectacularly for a great variety of searches (but, it seems that web-dev types don't use tho...

Ranking Factors Article Finally Finished
Rand Fishkin

Ranking Factors Article Finally Finished

Apologies for the long delay, but the search ranking factors article is now complete. Thanks to everyone who contributed; it's quite an impressive display of how much knowledge and experience professional SEOs can share when they get together on a project. There are now two formats, one where all of the comments left by the contrib...

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Press Release Advice
Rand Fishkin

Press Release Advice

One of the best threads in SEO is Cre8asite's one on Press Releases for Google News. Advice given there ranges from source to source but is all of very high quality, including an actual illustration of the traffic and readership levels that can be achieved with a successful release. While I encourage a full reading, I'll...

Threadwatch is 1 year old
Rand Fishkin

Threadwatch is 1 year old

It's hard to believe that Threadwatch is only a year old (today). In that time, Nick has taken the site from obscurity to infamy. They've been Slashdotted, added to major blogrolls all around the search and technology industries and created a hotbed for SEO/M and search politics. Congratulations, Nick. I hope SEOmoz can do half as well in a yea...

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Dodge the Sandbox for $79... Is this for real?
Rand Fishkin

Dodge the Sandbox for $79... Is this for real?

mrkryz03 at SEOChat uncovered some great information about a new product purporting to prevent your site from falling prey to Google's sandbox. The methodology is somewhat ingenious and creative - sending fake traffic to the search engines for your site and its keywords, which is likely a component that helps new sites escape "boxin...

New Article Listing 93 Ranking Factors
Rand Fishkin

New Article Listing 93 Ranking Factors

With the help of some friends from SEOChat, I've compiled a list of 93 metrics that may play large or small roles in determining how search engines rank documents in a query. This list is by no means comprehensive, but it does offer a great deal of information about each factor, as well as a relative measure of each factor's perceived importanc...

Seeking Contributors
Rand Fishkin

Seeking Contributors

With EGOL and I the loan wolves running SEOmoz, I think it's time to find some new talent to write for the site. SEOmoz, as you know, doesn't deliver copies of the daily headlines (although we occassionally give our take on big news). We're more focused on providing specific, daily tips and information that SEO/Ms and webmastesr can use in their site optimization efforts. If you're some...

Weigh in on Article Trades
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Weigh in on Article Trades

Lots of people are doing article trades or posting them out for massive distribution. They do this hoping for a traffic flow and also for the links that will appear within the article or in their signature line.I think that this worked great in the early days of SEO, bu...