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I don't generally like to pick on Google, or anyone else in particular for that matter, but since the search giant is hitting on all cylinders, I think they can probably take a little nudge or two. I'm going to keep this short, sweet and to the point (and also very self-centric, because it's tough to effectively analyze everything that might have happened on someone else's site): ...
Next week, at Las Vegas' Pubcon Conference, SEOmoz is throwing a whole new kind of party. In the past, we've had tons of fun playing the parlor game, Werewolf (description & rules here), with Googlers, SEOs, Black Hats & industry mavens. It's the perfect combi...
Youmoz and Sphinn are some of the best social networking communities in search marketing today. From participating in these two communities and reading a lot, I've discovered a few excellent bloggers. All of you who want to succeed at search marketing need to add their blogs to your feed readers. The bloggers are, in no particular order, Hamlet Batista, Maki aka Dosh Doh, Igor Mordkovich, C...
Many search marketers know about the ‘random surfer’ behind Google's PageRank (the real one, not the green bar also known as Google Toolbar PageRank). In Google’s own words, it’s described like this: PageRank can be thought of as a model of user behavior. We assume there is a "random ...
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With Cyber Monday just wrapping up, it's time to start for all of us procrastinators to get to work finding the perfect gifts for the geeks in our lives. Luckily, Mystery Guest and I have been doing some browsing around this year, and figured we'd share our favorites from around the web. Frankly, I've been really disappointed with the standard geek gift guides from places like Engadget and Amazon, ...
Having battled the SEO war on all fronts (for myself, for clients, for a firm and most recently, in-house), I’ve learned a lot over the years when it comes to link campaigning. Although I am completely FOR generating content that will get linked to naturally, often time this is easier said than done. If you’re not a link baiting aficionado or if you’re limited by what you&rs...
As we all know, there's no shortage of companies out there that are willing to spam to try and drudge up new business. The fact that a search engine marketing firm was found to be blatantly and deceptively spamming might seem even less remarkable.However, what is news in my opinion, is that a publicly traded company would be employing these deceptive tactics.Last year, Ra...
INTRO From Rand: Although my grandfather, Si Fishkin, has attended many industry events, provided coverage and helped with premium Q+A as well as some of our consulting work, this is his first post on the SEOmoz blog. Si was in town for the Thanksgiving holiday and generously contributed some time to the blog. Please welcome him!...
Fellow mozzers, I’d like to start off my first Q&A post by answering a question posed by Will Critchlow from Distilled. He was working through the complicated intersection of U.S. copyright law and international law. More specifically, how does one know where a copyright infringement case is heard and what law is applied for violations involving partie...
I was anxious to read The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss. I had picked it up while waiting in line at my local Kinkos because something on the dust jacket caught my attention. I thought it would be kind of a "Getting Things Done" for the Internet Marketing set and once I got the book home, I couldn't wait to read it. Anticipation, unfortunate...
This week, as Scott heads off on vacation for Thanksgiving, I'm posting our latest Whiteboard Friday on the conecpt of links as votes of importance from the search engines' perspective and how link juice passes. Below the video itself, I've created a few helpful graphics to better illustrate the phenomenon I'm discussing: ...
I'm going to blatantly copy my fellow Linkbait and Viral Marketing presenter Ciarán and post my slides and notes here for you guys. What can I say. Imitation is flattering, isn't it? And the posts are a good idea: it means that you all get to hear what I said about all the slides and you don't have any irritating PowerPoint presentation to download. Because I know you all secretly ...
Missed SMX London, or just got a taste of SEO and hungry for more? Can't make it to Pubcon, but still want a business write-off in December? Don't fret! Our good friends at London SEO firm, Distilled are hosting a very unique, very affordable and sure to be very worthwhile training seminar covering the basics of SEO, PPC and Analytics. ...
Mikkel deMib Svendsen and I had an interview in which we discussed PPC and SEO. At my site, you can read part 2 where we cover SEO business models. Below, we discuss PPC, I try to discuss arbitrage thinking that the father of blackhat PPC must do ...