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This morning, Mystery Guest made an appearance in Cranium's new online version of their Pop 5 Game. It's a take on guessing pop culture references based on visual clues and the web team has done a great job making it into a Flash game. ...
Three of the top six results at Google are user-hijacking, cloaked re-directions to low quality ads disguised as SERPs, i.e. Note that the UCLA page goes to a listing at Jercys.co...
Google has been using "onebox" results for travel related searches since at least October of 2005. I'm forced to wonder if, during the entirety of that period, Google's been sending the default link to Expedia. For example: I searched for Seattle to New York and got:...
I recently had the opportunity to renew 1000 of my spam domains.Since the domains only cost me 99 cents each when I bought them and renewal was nearly $6 at the time, I decided it wasn't worth it.In fact, my evil plan was that I was going to simply let these sites expire and then buy them back once they expired and went into the domain pool...Imagine my surprise...
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Every industry has its own jargon, and SEO is no exception. Since there are no interviews scheduled today and I actually have some down time (shhhh, don't tell Rand, or he'll make me scrub his Pumas again), I thought I'd share my picks for SEO terms that make you go "Huh?" These are terms that almost always require some sort of explanation, since the words associated with the ideas or ph...
Barely had time to read it, but I have to share - Top 10 Business Mistakes Search Marketing Firms Make. Which ones am I guilty of? #3 - Their Business Doesn’t Scale #7 - They Rely On One “Expert” to Provi...
I've been working over Labor Day weekend a bit, reviewing sites for clients (and friends) and continually find that site architecture best practices are being ignored. Since Monday isn't a holiday globally, I thought it would be worthwhile to provide a quick peek into what I'd recommend on the structural side of SEO: Dynamic URLs - If it's even remotely possi...
The most common question I receive after I've written any of my posts is: How can I get started and learn what you know? And that's a difficult question to answer. Not because I don't think it's possible, but because there is so much that you can do in the SEO field. Let's take black hat out of th...
I can't believe I'm about to do this, but I also can't resist. Eric Ward, aka "Link Moses," aka "The Link Building Expert," wrote a post last month about drinking the linkbait kool-aid and I'...
Almost everyone in the industry who's had a chance to interact one on one with a Googler in the past 6 months has probably noticed that it "feels" different from the interactions of the past 3 years. Robert Scoble did a good job describing it with regard to his recent visit to the 'plex...
I'm an analytics junkie. Along with my constant monitoring of email and the blog tracker, I have to admit that I watch referring URLs, unique visitors and Feedburner stats like a hawk. Sometimes I'm on it several times before lunch. This unhealthy obsession has lead to some valuable discoveries over time, including one that I discussed during my sessions in San Jose called "the linkbait bu...
Today I'm going to sappify (yes, I just made up a word. Deal with it!) this blog. Why? Well, first of all I'm currently the only female SEOmoz blogger, and even though I tend to fall more on the tomboy side, I can still girly it up a bit from time to time. Secondly, work has been going really well for me lately, which caused me to reflect on exactly why I'm so happy with how things are going. Beho...
Today, we jumped off our chairs when we realized what had just happened. One of the major platforms that we are developing, Gigasize, was dugg today... and I can assure you it was totally unplanned. We were in alpha phase, testing out functionalities, improving usability, etc., and then BOOM... thousands and thousands of visitors, peaking ...
Many of you are probably already fans of one of the web's most popular video-bloggers, but today is the first time that I've felt his brilliant ramblings were on-topic enough to be featured on the site. Ze covers brand identity, recognition, creation and loyalty in this brief video. ...