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That's right folks; I've been tapped by Stanford University to participate in their Web Publishing Course on Monday, Nov. 13 & Tuesday, Nov. 14. The goal of the course is to help business owners, website managers and corporate executives learn the ins and outs of building and marketing a successful site. ...
It's with great pleasure that I introduce our newest SEOmoz team member, the incredibly talented Jane Copland. Jane's tenure at SEOmoz has only been a week, but she's already a valuable addition to our team - poring through tomes of websites, blogs and books to catch up on the fast-moving world of search. ...
Andy Beal spent the day with SEOmoz, consulting with us on how to grow our business, take advantage of our strengths and shore up areas of weakness. Andy's experience with WebSourced, a giant firm in the field and Fortune Interactive, a mid-size player, has given him the ability to take a close look at a firm in SEO and immediately identify strategi...
Let's take a walk together down a click-path that's become increasingly popular for less-savvy users. We'll start at MSN's search page, where the results for credit card offers are looking especially black-hat: ...
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Last week, I spend three days on the road, visiting a client in Guelph, ON. My job was to train a staff of 20+ web publishers, designers, content creators and managers on the things that we at SEOmoz do best - viral marketing, site/content development, usability/design analysis and social media marketing. The training itself was excellent - better than many of the training sessions I've conduct...
It’s roughly three months since I wrote about the project site (original post), and it’s time to take a peek how the site is doing. I admit that I’m still being extremely lazy/busy, and have done lots of t...
I've been an .edu webmaster for about 13 years. I've seen lots of links given to .com domains. Four general characteristics are common through these links. The folks who receive them are: A) generous with their time, B) generous with their talent, C) generous with their money, or D) know a lot about an academic subject and are very good at writing about it. ...
Although I've had my Bachelor's degree for less than a year, I've already begun considering going back to school for a Master's degree. Working in the SEO industry has sparked an interest in getting an MBA (a Master's in Business Administration for you initialism-inept readers). My desire to get an MBA doesn't stem from the notion that more degrees = better pay (though it does); rather, in this in...
Via Threadwatch, I came across MarketingSherpa's report on the SEM industry's growth over the past two years. While it appears that SEM is on the up and up--staffing for top SEM firms has increased 75% from 2005, and "six firms [reported] more than $10 million in SEM revenue...
Unless you've been living under a rock for the past couple of years, you may have heard about Ruby on Rails. It's the latest greatest web development platform that has become immensely popula...
SEOmoz has been in the media more than most firms in our industry, and that's spurred some curiousity from readers. How did SEOmoz achieve its media connections? Why did the stories include our quotes? How can a small firm achieve media visibility? One of the first keys to understanding my perspective (and, thus contributions) on this subject is to get a background on our media involvem...
As posted on way too many blogs to count, Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger has decided to fork Wikipedia in to a new project called Citizendium. I know, I had no idea what it was either. Luckily, their "website&qu...
Last week, Michael wrote about his take on link request emails. I thought it would be valuable to share my own perspective on the subject, coming primarily from a background of making email requests to site operators. The lessons I've learned aren't universally applicable, but they've helped go a long way in getting attention and having...
Poor Jim had a rough week on the blog with his forray into politics. Luckily, he's re-emerged undamaged with an incredibly insightful entry on link numbers: It’s not always "He with the most links" who wins the game……often, "He with the right li...