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Snail mail is dead, right? Apparently not! Recently SEOmoz received a written letter from a well-meaning entrepreneur at a federal correctional institution, asking us if we could send him any information about SEOmoz's services. ...
There's a new Google hack (or something I was not aware of) in town, and I'm in love with it. It allows you to see an estimate of how many pages in a specific domain are supplemental results. To see the hack in action, just type the following at Google: site:www.mydomain.ltd ***i.e. SEOmoz...
Technorati currently has two Top 100 blog lists - one according to favorites and the other generated based on link popularity. The first measures Technorati users who've marked the blog as a "favorite;" as per the screen capture below: ...
I was recently interviewed on video (in a t-shirt) at our offices here in Seattle by Payscale.com for their Salary Stories blog. I'm not sure if I'll ever be fully comfortable with how I look on video, but it might be something to experiment with. ...
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One of the earliest lessons I learned in the forums, blogs & communities of the professional, search marketing sphere was to keep my politics private. It's a sad reality that logical debate and discussion of something critical to our lives must remain sequestered, but the current political environment in the US and in many places abroad prevents rational presentation of fact and opinion on ...
Recently I've started working with Rand on doing site analyses for our clients. He's taken me under his wing by walking me through a typical site analysis and telling me what to look for. Obviously, since Rand is the resident expert, it is easy for him to know what to look for and what to recommend to the client.Unfortunately, up until I started working for SEOmoz, I was accustomed to ...
The Wall Street Journal online hosted a debate between Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and Dale Hoiberg, the editor-in-chief of Encyclopaedia Britannica. I've included a brief excerpt (in which Jimmy Wales lays the smackdown on Dale Hoiberg) below:...
User generated content seems to be a pendulum-swing against the 1980s and ‘90s-style elitism that had all aspects of the media, including the web, tucked away in the firm grasp of a small, skilled group. Now, the opposite is true: In no other public way can the regular folks you see promoting themselves on Bebo or dishing out ...
Seattle Internet startup Trailfire is attempting to blaze a path through the web bookmarking community and straight into your disorganized life. Besides a misleading appeal to pyromaniacs, the service offers some features that are unique, straightforward to use, and potentially very advantageous. Trailfire is essentially a bookmark plug-in for yo...
The user-submitted, Web 2.0 world is, in theory, built upon the idea of a democratic, free-flow of news and ideas: free of the framing, restraint and editorial control of the mainstream media. Unfortunately, much has been made recently of the not-so-egalitarian power structure that exists on bookmarking sites such as Reddit and, particularly, Digg.With an estimated ...
"This site is blocked because its content may be offensive to the political, moral, or religious values of the United Arab Emirates."Last year, two talented young Americans left their home in Seattle for a one-year stint in Dubai at a TV startup. They were homesick and hurtling from the culture shock, both on the street and in the workplace. Hungry to reconnect and shivering ...
There's no doubt that naming a business, particularly an online business, is an incredibly frustrating task. A number of parallels can be drawn between this process and the web design hangups Matt discussed in July. Recently, a new friend from San Jose's SES show, John Anderson, ...
Some folks have been asking for my opinions of Hitwise & Alexa data recently, and I figured the best I could do would be to illustrate the sampling problems of both with some real life data. First off, let's look at SEOmoz's traffic levels over the last few months. This comes courtesy of our Indextools stats program + Feedburner data for RSS. You can see more on our ...
After more than 100 resumes, 20 interviews (including a few grueling ones), we've narrowed down our candidates to 5 standouts. This diverse group will be asked to write a blog entry over the weekend and submit them to us on Monday morning, at which point, we'll let you vote on which blog entry you like best. The entries will be anonymized, but they're all on a similar topic (though I expect to ...