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I apologize in advance for the bad grammar, but that's really how nofollow links talk, so it's not my real fault. I'm just trying to "keep it real". It 'aint nothing but link love baby I was looking at the stats of one of my blogs and in the "came from" section of the report I saw a referral from another blog. I was cur...
Name the number one criticism of linkbait: from a technical point of view, the top problem with popular content is that it often doesn't attract many links. "Linkbait" has become a word we use to mean pretty much anything that gets media attention, no matter whether it is heavily linked to or not. In fact, one could argue that social media sites harm linkbait as much as they help it: if ...
One of my favorite, easy-to-use features in Linkscape is the ability to compare pages and domains side-by-side to see which ones have earned what relative quantities of links. For example, I was curious to see how people linked to SEOmoz (since we're on a .org and I see lots of links to .com). Linkscape to the rescue: ...
SEO is an analytical occupation, so it’s no surprise that we experiment. The trouble is, we can’t experiment freely with our clients’ websites, and setting up a website just for experimentation doesn’t really mimic the natural conditions in the online environment. Therefore, I was delighted when I recently had the opportunity to arrange a small experiment under remarkably controlled conditions.
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SEOmoz's newest product, Linkscape, provides link data that Search Marketers have always wanted, but never really had access to. What we found though is that once you start collecting that data, there's a lot more to it than one might think. Building Linkscape forced us to create new, actionable metrics to make the data useful to marketers and quantifiable in ways similar to what we've...
I’ve received a few queries about optimizing new website builds - keeping SEO clearly at the forefront of the design.I though it might be a good idea to write about this as my first contribution to the YOUMoz community. Here is how I tackle it. Whenever I am approached for SEO on a new site build I set to work on constructing an SEO WireFrame...
Linkscape is like nothing SEOmoz has ever built before - it includes not only a search engine sized scale index of the world wide web, but a set of unique link popularity metrics and a tool to see links and link attributes. It's our most ambitious project to date and includes billions of points of data and dozens of complex pieces.This thread is designed to be a resource for those us...
It's been 12 long months of intense anticipation, but the waiting is finally over. Today, I'm ecstatic to announce some very big new developments here at SEOmoz. They include: An Index of the World Wide Web – 30 Billion pages, refreshed (and grown) monthly, built to help provide SEOs and businesses acquire greater intelligen...
Last week, as the US financial powerhouses began to pay the price for their lack of fiscal responsibility, I was on the road in Seoul, Nanjing for SMX China 2008, and Tokyo. ...
If you want me to take a sh*t in a box and mark it guaranteed, I will...I got spare time." - Tommy BoyWe should all know by now that rankings in and of themselves don't have any inherent value. It's rather a well-worn topic - one Rand covered effectively in his post on ...
What happened was that their past had just caught up with them. They had previously engaged a local SEO firm with tactics that were a bit past their sell-by date (mainly consisting of a huge link network of sub-domains off the SEO company's own site and some other properties). There was not only a question of tactics here, but also of plain common sense - not only was part of the link network on the SEO company's site, but so were proud links to "our clients" (all of whom got slapped, we believe).
If your job or current tasklist includes building a social media strategy for your organization (or yourself, personally), you should be thinking about the branding created by the profiles you create. The profile name, the image you use as an icon or avatar, the webpage you link to and the words you use to describe yourself have a significant impact in how you're perceived and how you're rememb...
If you are like most SEO's I meet, you are probably not doing the majority of the programming and development work for your clients or company. Those of us from the marketing side of the business frequently rely on professionals to do the heavy lifting during the implementation stages of an SEO campaign. I've had the privilege of working with very smart and talented web developers in my...
After watching Nate Buggia a few weeks ago speak about Live's Webmaster Tools I was struck by his statistic about the number of domains on the web. He suggested that there are 78 million domains. Could we manually review all of them?