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I've been lucky enough to be traveling out of the country since late June (if you get the chance to go to Morocco -- DO IT!) and was pleasantly surprised to see that Google has added approximate search numbers to their Keyword Tool. However, I started to wonder just how close the approximate numbers were to the accurate numbers. So, I decided to look at the numbers from one ...
Many of you have probably set your SEOmoz account settings such that when you comment on a blog post, we email you whenever someone adds a new comment. One thing we don't do is include the contents of the new comment in the notification email. Why not? Because then you would have less reason to click through to see the comment in its natural habitat and you'd be less likely to reply. The ...
Stories, news, and other notable items from the past week: Three star links: * Royal Pingdom shares the best interview questions from Google and Microsoft (and they throw in a cheeky IKEA interview question, too). Warning: the questions are uber-geeky and pretty quantitative/logic-heavy. * Speaking of nerd alert, here's the linear algebra behind search engines. Geez, my head hurt just typing that. * The O'Reilly Radar asks if linking to yourself is the future of the web. The post has two good recommendations for self-linkers, so be sure to check 'em out.
Search Engine Marketing - it's only as good as the underlying website you're promoting. I often ask marketers how the development process works for them. Do they have visibility into the project to make sure the website meets their goals? Are they satisfied with the speed and results of the development process? Frequently the answer is no. From e...
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This guide came around as the result of a post I previously wrote for YOUmoz, which in itself came around as a result of a night of drinking and being sent an interesting Google SERP. That post focused on the URL parameters you can feed into Google to generate SERPs.This time however I’m looking at Google Maps....
Ladies and gentlemen, another guide has seen the light of day! Hooray! Our newest debut is The Professional's Guide to Advanced Search Operators. Available in web and document format, this guide covers advanced searching and identifies various search operators that can help with competitive analysis, k...
What's up, YOUmoz! Ok, enough small talk. I'll get right to the point. I have a 2-page website that I created for the sole purpose of having something to link to from my SEOmoz profile page. My site doesn't really do anything or provide any useful information, but I use it to experiment on sometimes. Over the past 3 months, I've written several YOUmoz po...
I just read Aaron Walls great article called "Social Media Free for All Pages" and it made me think about something I wanted to put out about social media and how we speak about it. There s...
One of the problems with working on Small Business SEM is content development. So far we know what keywords we are targeting, who our link market is, and ...
Everyday a fiercely competitive battle takes place online over capturing the attention of millions of readers. As a result the blogosphere constantly changes shape and different players thrust forward as content kings for the day. Lately I have been trying to find out what forces control this volatile scene. I have been looking for recurring themes and hoping to find useful correlations. ...
As I said, blogging is light this week, but I couldn't help but notice this thread at Metafilter. How can we fight against such entrenched, misinformation and stereotypes? SEO people remind me of "weight weenies" in the bicycle world. Instead ...
May It Please the Mozzers, I have an update on the Jason Gambert Saga. For those of you wanting a refresher, please see my first post on the internet marketer trying to trademark "SEO" and ...
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