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Living in an SEO world can be strange at times; forget about the internal politics of black hats, white hats, and no hats, I'm talking about being on the inside looking out, an SEO Professional in a corporate environment, professional title: Link Developer. I can't say I'm getting used to it, but I have always taken this question in stride, "What do you do …exa...
We all know a long term strategy to developing content is necessary for our sites to become known as authoritative. Yet most webmasters, bloggers, etc. tend to think of content development along two lines:Quickly conceived short postings about current news and developments in their niche (this is what most blogs are known for)Thoughtful link bait that ...
“I bagged the elephant!”, shrieks Bud Fox, the fledgling stockbroker from 1987’s “WallStreet”, after learning that he’s just landed financial mogul Gordon Gekko as his newest client. So, how does Bud hook the top-dog in the highly competitive world of stock trading? By raving about the value of his company’s services? Throwing ...
N.B. This post is intended for relatively new SEOs with smaller sites. Intermediate and advanced SEOs probably already know most of this information, and I do not claim to have experience with sites numbering thousands of pages, for which different strategies are surely more effective. Some of you may know that I run an NCAA bas...
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Rand regularly finds directories and shoots them my way so I can add them to our Premium Members' Link Directory. I don't know where or how Rand finds these gems, but I've added directories that focus on topics as diverse as corn, Nepal tourism, and taekwondo. I typically only add sites that offer direct links to their listings for maximum link build...
On Thursday and Friday of this week, Gillian and I will be attending SMX London - the SMX conference series' second European station. As opposed to the three conferences I've attended in the past (Pubcon 2006, SES New York 2007 and SMX Seattle this past June), I'm going to be taking part in a panel in London. I've mentioned this once before, but as I'm leaving tomorrow, things are about t...
It was a hectic week - all the normal kid stuff (soccer, parties, trip to the emergency room), all the normal work stuff (regular business, this new thing we're working on), a date with the wife (her turn to pick a movie - total chick flick, no car chase scenes), etc, etc.And then on Friday night I had a problem with ShutterFly, went to bed mad, woke up mad, wrote a sarcastic blog po...
Along with all the hot "technical" topics this year, like Universal Search and blended search in general, algo changes, social media, local and mobile search, and most recently Google's big crack down on paid text links, it also seems to have been a big year for background discussions... high on the list of topics over the last 12 months or so being employment. On one hand you h...
Admittedly, I'm a bit of a stats junkie. I can't get enough of those deliciously tasty tracking metrics to see how a site performs in the search engines, the blogosphere, the news, etc. If I could, I'd do like the NSA and record every conversation everywhere on the planet and audio scan for mentions of "SEOmoz" (update - the NSA has asked that I note that they do not record every convers...
Over the last few weeks, I've realized that I really need to optimize my processes for working. It's been a long, steady slog, but I've finally got at least one item nailed down, and since it was so popular last time, I figured I'd once again share my Firefox Sidebar. Of course, this means I'm also re-ranking the blogs that I read, trimming many off the list and adding a great number of new one...
This week, one of the UK's most infamous & brilliant search marketers joined us at the mozplex for what is surely one of the most valuable, insightful and lengthy Whiteboard Friday's we've had. In many ways, it's not too dissimilar from an SMX or Pubcon panel featuring the inimitable Mr. Naylor, and as usual, Dave parts with more information than you might expect. Part I: ...
I've made a few offhand comments here on others' posts about my theory that English majors make good search marketers. I also recently commented on Lyndon's article which covers why companies need a social media consultant, that I believe certain personality types are pre...
I'm pleased to announce that after many hours of work and testing by SEOmoz, our beta testers and yourself truly, the SEOmoz SEO Services Marketplace is officially launched! Th...