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Ah, yes, the holidays. That time of year when content writers like myself have to come up with cute new versions of festive songs from years past. After we're done beating our heads against the fake office mantelpieces hung with stockings, and have sufficiently drowned our sorrows in the bitter eggnog of trying to write lyrics that both scan properly and vaguely fit ...
Hey Gang! This week Rand talks to NetConcepts' CEO, Stephan Spencer, about cloaking and redirection via black hat, gray hat, and white hat methods. This is pretty high-level stuff but incredibly interesting, even if it is of questionable Glegality...
Over the years I have noticed that the companies I've worked for have been afraid to say no. No to what you might ask? No to work that they either don't have room for, can't do or just doesn't fit within the niche that they've made for themselves.I've heard this saying over and over "Don't ever say no, take the work and you'll figure out how to get it...
It's Thursday, so you know what that means: another installment of Roundup Thursday! This week, I'm implementing a more formal layout that will be executed in every recap post from here on out. Hope you enjoy it! That being said... New Additions to the SEOmoz Marketplace: Featured job postings: ...
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A great many tech-specific site owners consistently bemoan the fact that market share stats like these: Percentage of U.S. Searches Among Leading Search Engine Providers...
As you all know, FB is a very viral network, and with two of the most viral applications easily available (superwall and funwall), it was about time people got up to mischief. I have been geting a whole lot of chain posts lately, but the one below takes the cake: Attention all Facebook membeRs.Facebook is recently becoming very overpopulated,There have been many members complaining that F...
I know exactly what you should do with your blog because it isn't mine, I don't have to implement any of the changes and if my advice is crap, I don't have to live with the consequences. This said, I've been poking around inside my favourite social networking site and I've...
I received a rather exciting private message from Rand recently. In it he stated I was going to receive free premium membership.How did it happen? Thumbs baby! Thumbs!!Huh? What the hell are you talking about now Payne? How do thumbs get me free premium membership? Well, if you click on the '<a href="http://www.seomoz.org/dp/mozpoint...
Recently I've been pondering one of the most basic principles of website usability: people don't use my site like I do. No, that's not quite it. It's more accurate to say this: people don’t use my site like I think they should. I've put a lot of time into making it easy to navigate, and yet still I'm surprised by the way people choose to get around my st...
There have been a number of updates to Google Ad Words and Google Analytics lately so I though the SEOMoz community might want a summary of them. For the most part, I am impressed with the new features and Google should be applauded for listening to their user base and responding with these additions. Improvement #1 - AdWords Geographical Targeting with Google Maps...
May it Please the Mozzers, I had the pleasure of attending Law Seminars International’s 16th Annual Seattle Conference on New Development in Technology Law last week. The place was chock full of brilliant legal minds and even a handful of techies. I want to spotlight one presentation in parti...
We've been hearing from many of our premium members that while they love the information provided in the guides, q+a knowledge base, discount store, tools, link directory and tips, they're not 100% sure how to utilize it all to help them get more traffic. And, even though we're just a few weeks away from launching some exceptional new services (and a new interface for the premium...
If MSN Adcenter is the red-headed stepchild of the paid search family then is Yahoo! Search Marketing that slightly sozzled uncle you have to put up with once a year at Christmas? But spurious and obvious analogies aside, I know the lesser two rivals of the Adwords behemoth tend to be humored as opposed to embraced by most when it comes to PPC.Still, we recieved an email this morning fro...
For the next few weeks, my blog posts will primarily consist of re-authoring and re-building the Beginner's Guide to Search Engine Optimization, section by section. You can read more about this project here. Titles, URLs, Meta Data and Semantic...