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You have great content ideas and the motivation to create, but if your site isn't link-friendly, you might still be up the proverbial creek. Let me give a perfect example from one of my favorite bloggers - Andrew Goodman (from a blog entry called monetizing your site): ...
Rand send me an email on Monday and asked me to review Twitter for the blog as it's been getting some coverage is the blogosphere lately. I'd heard of the site, but had never really investigated it in depth, so I signed up...
I took over the development of my employer's website paradiserooms.com, about 6 months ago, and in the past few months we've begun optimizing the site to compete in our regional market of sunrooms, patio enclosures and other home improvement services. In the process, we began to speak with SEO fir...
Rand's recent post about the (not so) secret to getting high rankings in the SERPS got me thinking as to whether there are any other secrets in SEM that should really be common knowledge. And then one struck me. In fact I'd argue that it's the biggest secret about searc...
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Yesterday, in my post on the Secret of Search Marketing, I promised to unveil what exactly the "Linkerati" want from a website's content. Today, I'll do my best to explain, but first, I need to explain the motivation of the Linkerati and explore their level of influence. Seeing as the word "Linkerati" is completely new and invented by yours truly, I feel that I ...
Rand's post on Monday "The Secret to Ranking at the Search Engines (that's really no secret at all)" highlights the importance of website content appealing to the linkerati for the purposes of encouraging plenty of high quality, on-topic (possibly) and most impo...
We've all hit that point, either with our own business or perhaps with a client whose business we have gotten close to, where it feels like we've hit a creative dead-end. You know the point. Where it feels like nothing is fresh and the ideas have stopped flowing. It can happen anytime we get too close to something. Ironically, if you were asked about some other business you could pro...
Poor Jason Calacanis. He seems to want to be the Ann Coulter or Bill O'Reilly of the SEO sphere, where he'll say stupid, outrageous things just to get noticed and blogged about. (And yes, I'm blogging about him...shut up.) In a recent post he authored (I'm not going to link to it because I think he's an idiot), he talks about how there is no such thing as "blue collar blogging" and "...
I noticed recently that for one of my sites, http://waste-some-time.com, while I was receiving no visitors from Google for the keyphrase waste some time, I was receiving a few for “wast...
And here we go, diving into the other half of it! So, let's get cracking...Question Six: What are the top 3 over-rated and under-rated criteria for determining how valuable an individual link will potentially be to your site’s search engine rankings? Over-rated - PR, location in a site, and the content it's onUnder-rated - Where...
Over at SEOBook Aaron, Lee, Shoemoney et al had a competition to win a free ticket to Elite Retreat. Needless to say I didn'tt win. (rats...) I DID however think that the question they posed was a good one, so I thought I would share my thoughts here. ...
How I despise those chessy, awful pages promoting the "secrets" of search engine optimization. How I loathe the slick salesman pictured in fuzzy, 1980's-style photography promising you "the hidden tactics SEOs don't wan't you to know." If there is one key to high search engine rankings, a single piece of advice that unlocks the door to the top of Google & Yahoo! it's thi...
Another Friday afternoon and another great opportunity for a quick and dirty SEOmoz Vidcast. This time around Rand walks us through one of his oh-so-famous (at least to us Mozzers) white board illustrations explaining the justification and methodology behind cloaking (the white hat variety anyway). This is probably a little bit remedial for some of our more high-level readers,...
The "round robin link interview" over at Rae's blog, which Rand posted on recently, had me thinking..."As someone who has more than his toe in the black hat circle, as well as d...