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I'm incredibly tired. So dead, it's hard to take out my contact lenses (you know how they stick sometimes? Yeah, I hate that). Here's a log of today's events: 7:50am - Wake up at hotel in San Francisco, shower 8:45am - Catch cab to International Orange 9:15-10:45am - Take first ever Yoga class (wow ...
Everybody in the SEO world knows that SMX West starts tomorrow but, while I'm definitely looking forward to seeing some familiar faces in Santa Clara, I'm currently in Las Vegas for Affiliate Summit. Why, you may ask, are you attending Affiliate Summit, Scott, SEOmoz isn't invol...
I've been following with interest Google's Online Marketing Challenge and I find a part of me is really angry and a part of me thinks this is a phenomenal marketing tool and a great opportunity for college students. They'll be posting the results in June -- so I'll keep you posted!He...
I was at my neighborhood hot tub last night enjoying a glass of wine and conversation with my husband when a stranger appeared. This is always an awkward moment. You don’t want to be rude and leave, but you also don’t want the stress of engaging in what will most certainly turn out to be meaningless conversation. That was not the case this evening…. Introductions...
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It was a balmy 85 degrees (30 C), on this late Friday afternoon as I arrived in the Dominican Republic's, bustling capitol city of Santo Do...
Brilliant, brilliant work from Mike McDonald and the team over at WebProNews:...
"I want to go with your company, but I'd like to see some case studies/results of previous clients" . The question any new business dreads.How can you show your potential clients that you can do the job when you are first staring out? Whether you are starting a new company or branching out into a new service, you don't have a track record so how do you co...
Exchanging links has been a common practice for some time now between webmasters that want to increase their search engine rankings. Lots of these webmasters trust their rankings solely to their link exchanges, the big problem with this is that this kind of links are known to be deprecated by search engines and even Google is telling us not to do link exchanges in the webmaster guidelines. I remem...
Hey Gang, This week we're going to piggy-back a little on last week's Whiteboard Friday that discussed how to increase your blog's visibility. So you get readers to your site, now, how do you keep them there? Well the direct answer is great content. Create awes...
One of SEOmoz's former regular blog contributors, Michael Martinez, posted his "Thoughtful SEO's Manifesto" this week. After reading it, I thought it would be fun to highlight some of the differences in how he and I think about, write about, and perform SEO for our clients. Let me just preface ...
Due to an unavoidable client meeting I had to miss the first session on the final day of SES London 2008; from speaking to a few people it sounds like I missed some good ones, so here's hoping the rest of the day keeps up the quality. Session 2: Dynamic Websites: Beyond The BasicsIf there's such a think as an all-star team in SEO then the panel here p...
Investigating rankings in Google's search results pages is part of every SEO's daily chores. From time to time, the odd ranking sticks out like a sore thumb. Sleeves rolled up and my best black hat on, let's try to find out what's happening here....
Stories, news, and other notable items from the past week: Three star links: Four star links: Five star links: YOUmoz entries: Best of YOUmoz: New events added to the Events Calendar: No new events added. However, ...
Social Media seems to be current "happening thing". Everyone is asking the questions - "Are you on XYZ?" (XYZ being replaced by the newest social media network) and "How many profile have you got?" It's all the bandwagon effect. You jump in because your friend already has. Otherwise you don't really bother. But apart from all the hype,...