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It's late, and I should be wrapping up Q+A (or at least blogging on my promised topic of the Beginner's Guide) and getting some shut eye, but I simply couldn't resist sharing some thoughts about the web-based fervor for Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul. For those who don't know, Paul's supporters are possibly the most organized and galvanized web community in the modern political spec...
Hey Gang, It's been a crazy week here at the Mozplex, what with interviewing for a few new positions, all kinds of work to do and, well, let's just say a little lingering controversy from last week. So it's definitely time to lighten things up with another installment of Whiteboard Friday. This week, Rand discusses differ...
Yes, the long-tail can kill your pay-per-click campaign -- especially on Google.The problem, in AdWords, is the minimum bid. You minimum bid is determined by your account history, Quality Score, and the history of the search vertical (the industry associated with your phrases). If you are high volume click buyer ...
I don't think I am the only one who had to read The Crucible in high school and listen to their English teacher compare the play to McCarthyism in the 50s. And I can't be the only one sitting here thinking that Google is on the same type of ob...
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If you're selling text links on your site, you're going to need to protect yourself from Google deindexing/penalizing you. Why's that? Well for one, Google's battle against paid links is finally out in the open, with no more dickering: http://searchengineland.com/071007-173841.php. So here's my mini-...
Before bashing out a post on running a profitable Pay Per Click campaign, I wanted to ask you "What do you want to know?"I have been running through topics in my head for my first YOUMoz post for quite some time. Each one was interesting, exciting and innovative, but would you find it valuable enough to spend 5 minutes to read and more importantly would you put...
I am unsure if this is the right place for this post, however this is the place I have spent many hours for the last year or so, and I am so concerned right now that I cannot think of a better place. So here is the story. I have been participating in the Zlio affiliating program since Apr 2007, and until recently, especially in terms of SEO, it was a dream. With a week, my old website of 300 pages was ranking ahead of Ebay, Nextag, Shopping.com etc for many competitive keywords. I was very happy with the results and they were in place for over six months. Although I spent many hours working on my shops and acquired some quality link exchanges, I noticed that other Zlio affiliates were also performing extremely well.
As Rand mentioned in his Rewriting the Beginner's Guide post, he and I will be speaking at SMX Social Media next Monday and Tuesday. Once again, I will be speaking on the Linkbait panel with my buddies Brent Csutoras and ...
Two posts in one.This was originally going to be about the disconnect between what SEOs worry about and the average internet user. But a recent Shoemoney post made me want to bring up a combined issue. And while each could have been its own post, I decided to combine it. SEOMoz points be damned.Myopic SEOs and Search Engines If you as...
Of recent I have seen some interesting posts and activity on the blogs and Youmoz posts, which kind of geared me into writing this post. But before you go any deeper, remember I claim right to the disclaimer and it applies to the below – the ideas, suggestions are mine, and not reflection of anyone else or complaints – simply observatio...
I read the interview with Matt Cutts today and it talks about the different uses of noindex, nofollow, and robots.txt. He states (1) whether they stop the passing of “link juice” (PageRank) (2) whether or not the page it still crawled and (3) whether or not it keeps the page out of Google&...
Hidden Text is one of the challenges faced by webmasters and search engines. Spammers continue to use hidden text to stuff keywords into their pages for purposes of artificially boosting their rankings. Search engines seek to figure out when spammers are doing this, and then then take appropriate action.For the average every day webmaster, one challenge is that there are many ways to c...
Bryan Eisenberg pinged me this week and asked if SEOmoz would participate in their latest contest - "My Hyperlink Can Beat Your HyperLink." It's not just fun, it's participatory, engaging, and incredibly valuable - both from a learning perspective and for the winner. Here are the details: ...
This is interesting. Go to www.yahoo.com and type in Barry Bonds (e.g.)See the drop down list? Nice.. but apart from assumed relevancy application to these suggestions, are they also based on actual search volume and listed in order based on volume? I would assume so.This appears to be Yahoo!s answer to Google Suggest Search, but it doesn't...