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Does SEOMoz's Thumb system hold any weight with search engine rankings? On SEOmoz, if a blog post, a Youmoz post, or a comment had a greater number of thumbs as another identical post/comment of equal real world or "human" value, would the search engines know? Would they care? Wow, that's kind of a mouthful. Basically, does gi...
Like everyone else in the search industry, I have my $0.02 I'm just dying to give on the MS/Yahoo! deal. First off, I think we need to decide officially whether the new moniker will be Micrahoo! or Yahrosoft. Next, we should probably take a quick walk through the timeline of events so everyone's on the same page. Here's a quick look back: ...
As a Realtor® in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, my interest was peeked this morning when I read about a real estate agent in Miami, Florida being sued by a developer for 25 Million because of a post on the agent’s blog. After I just about choked on my coffee, I continued to read that basically the agent while writing about the real estate market in Miami, wrote a less than favorable...
First, a big thank you to each of the participants of the “Youmoz – Win a free SEOmoz Premium Membership contest”. I think it’s fair to say the contest was a success and both the contributors and readers came out winners. This is one fantastic community. Most of you are aware that the one year membership was generously offered up by Paul @ Cred...
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⇒ What is trademark law? → Product marks versus service marks ⇒ Where does trademark law come from? ⇒ Isn’t trademark the same thing as copyright? ⇒ Do I have any trademarks? How do I get some? → Be First in Your Market → Be Distinctive ⇒Trademark Law's Guiding Principle: Don't Confuse the Consumer ⇒ Limitations on Trademark Rights → Trademark does not protect disparaging or lewd marks. → Trademark holders do not “own†the words, logos, or slogan’s themselves. → Parodies of trademarks are permissible. → Non-commercial uses are permissible. → News reporting and product comparisons are permissible. ⇒ Caution! The Very Famous Marks Exception! ⇒ Should I register my trademarks?
We've talked plenty in the past about methods to control search engine spiders' access to documents on your website, and we've discussed cloaking in several depths as well. But I feel that an under-utilized and extremely powerful methodology for serving unique content in different ways to visitors and search engines, based on the different experiences sought by the two, is critical to advanced ...
It had been rumoured for a long (long) time, but the time has finally come, as Microsoft proposed to adquired Yahoo! for roughly $44.6 billion in cash and stockAnd Microsoft isn't shy in saying that it wants Yahoo! to go head-to-head with Google:"Today, the market is increasingly d...
Throughout its existance, the SEOmoz blog has always strived to be something very different from a Search Engine Land, Marketing Pilgrim or Search Engine Journal, by providing advice, insight, and under-the-radar stories from the world of search and webmas...
Hey All. At the suggestion of a few people in the Joomla community I decided to site down and write a beginner's guide to optimizing a Joomla site for SEO. The bad news: the default version of Joomla i...
For those of you unfamiliar with the hissy fit going on over at Digg the past couple weeks, I point you to Tamar Weinberg's handy recap. In a nut shell, Kevin Rose (Digg founder who really needs to be featured on this site) announced some algorithm changes o...
Should the Mozzers be paid for their posts in YOUmoz?I mean, I love the all comunity free thinking thing, but when you think about it, we are all helping seomoz for free. Our posts end up being indexed in the Search Engines and when people click, they are entering a comercial website, that sells premium memberships. So where does this leave all of the Mozzers out there, that devot...
With the Super Bowl fast approaching, Rand looks back on his legendary proposal shenanigans of last year. Finally, all the details of the saga are revealed for all to gossip about. Watch, comment and enjoy. If you'd like to see the original proposal reaction video, go check it out....
When I first heard about Google’s proposed ...
There has been plenty of discussion about the stories that become popular on Digg. However, these posts don't actually help the submitter that much. Do 'Microsoft' stories hit the front page frequently because there are a lot of stories submitted about Microsoft or because Diggers love Microsoft?I think it is much more useful to look at the statistics behind what does a...