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This is my first blog entry so be gentle with me. It’s rather long in the hope it passes for confidence and depth in my subject; whereas I really just got too excited and couldn’t stop typing! The topic that has been on my mind recently is the fascinating potential of search engines to step up to the next level of intelligence. Now I'm not talking about personalisati...
For the next few weeks, I'm working on re-authoring and re-building the Beginner's Guide to Search Engine Optimization, section by section. You can read more about this project here....
I hate MySpace, but then again, so does most everyone else. It's not news or anything, but it's just after Christmas and posting is light lately, so I thought I'd get this out of the way before the new year hits and Rand's bugging me to put up actual, relevant posts. Anyway, I created an account a few years ago, and within the last year I've been letting my account awkwardly hang o...
Well folks, Christmas is past but we're here with the gift that keeps on giving: Another installment of Whiteboard Friday! To round out our last episode of 2007, we brought our good friend and search industry celebrity, Vanessa Fox, into Whiteboard studios to talk about Vertical Search (or Search 3.0, if you will). Vertical, Blended, Shak...
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Getting a new site to quickly appear within online search results is an enormous challenge we all face when launching a new site. Leading organic SEO firms suggest (rightfully so) that it can take anywhere from three to six months to achieve a top 30 ranking in the major search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN depending upon the competitive search landscape.&...
In analysing keywords for our client who runs a local agency (what is reclamebureau in dutch), we discovered something nice at first. According to the search-engine keyword request database we noticed that reclamebureau was asked 95 times a day and have 440.000 competitors. Because of the fact in the Netherlands we have for some words two different ways of spelling (old and mod...
In the last Whiteboard Friday (12/20/07) Rand talked with Stephan Spencer on the subject of conditional 301 redirects using user agent detection. I thought it might be useful to briefly cover how easy it is to set up Firefox to use a non-default user agent (like Yahoo, Google etc) for testing and development...
First, let me say I hope this post will be taken in the spirit in which it is intended – to have a little fun with our Moz community and to learn something applicable to almost everything in life – even SEO! While looking at the SEOmoz Top Ranked Members the other day I noticed that I’m listed at #19 which is fantastic, especially since ...
I will be frank here.I am quite new to SEO, optimization, web design and site creation, etc. I have a few of my own sites and I am working hard on them using the best optimization tools available. But I can see some trends here already.I have a few friends that use black seo like doorways, cloaking, you name them... They can easily make over $10,000/month with a 2 month old site a...
I want to get a new telephone. There is really nothing wrong with the one I have right now: it's been dropped a couple of (ten) times and I once dropped it into Lake Union. It dried. It calls other phones, receives calls and text messages, and it fits nicely in pockets and purses. But it doesn't do Internet, and that's not acceptable. Too often, I'm away from my computer and I want to look somethi...
Some of you may have read one of my first YOUmoz posts about Bounce Rates. Although others have discussed and blogged about user statistics, I think it's important to revisit the issue. Google's search results have been dancing for awhile lately, largely in part to the axe coming down on pai...
This somewhat of a follow up to my last post about "Fear of Saying No!". I realized after re-reading my post that perhaps there is a fear of saying no because people don't know how to say it without offending the would-be client. So this post is going to discuss some of the ways that I feel are appropriate ways to tell a client no, but thank you at the same time.First off, ...
I came across this entry earlier today. Which led me through to googles blog. If you want to know the specifics, I suggest visiting googles blog, but a quick screenshot of the interface is ...
As a special pre-holiday treat, we decided to share our more long tail search terms from last month (November 2007). Enjoy!