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Via Gary Price - Exalead, a major competitior in the 2nd tier search engines, has an incredible array of advanced operators to help sophisticated users refine queries. The offerings include: An advanced search page with the ability to modify v...
Lots of people use the Overture Keyword Tool to estimate search volumes and get ideas for additional keywords to target. I went there over the weekend to do a few domain searches. I felt that it would be a good way to measure "brand strength"...
Over at Debra's Linkspiel blog, guest writer Bill Slawski is talking about offline advertising for online services. This was my favorite bit: Walking through a parking lot, I feel an urge to click on cars, noticing that some Maryland and...
For anyone who uses Wikipedia's lax security to add links, let me make a suggestion - add your link in the "discussion" section for the page (example) and ask others to review whether the link you're providing will be pertinent or not. This way, you get a real, non-nofollow, indexable link from Wikipedia and yo...
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And now for something completely different. Via Slate - Ireland's "Crack" Habit: In the last 15 years, Dublin-based IPCo and its competitors have fabricated and installed more than 1,800 watering holes in more than 50 countries. Guinness threw its weight (and that...
Another site that plugs into del.icio.us - similicious provides data about the folks who've tagged your site. For example, with SEOmoz, it shows that taggers also found sites like A List Apart, Particle Tree, and 24 Ways interesting. It's a good way to ...
Came across BlogInfluence which purports to give a score to indicate your blog's relative level of importance in the sphere. The rough calculation is based on the number of Technorati and Yahoo! links you've got, added together with Bloglines subscriptions and multiplied by a factor that uses Google's PageRank. It's certainly not a perfe...
So I'm playing around with the MSN operators as per my post from last week and I stumble upon the holy grail of link searches: (linkdomain:kennedyfunding.com ...
Del.icio.us has a new (or at least, new to me) URL history tool that tell you who's posted what about the site/page in the past and what they said about it. The history for SEOmoz is bland, but some others are more interesting (WARNING: The service is very slow): Note t...
I know interviews are the latest "craze" in the SEO world, but this one is different - and special. Ammon's knowledge goes deep into the core of what marketing is - appealing to consumers and businesses and driving them to your brand. ...
Just wanted to start on a thread on the subject of internal 301 re-directs. What's been your general experience when re-directing a page or set of pages to the "canonical" or new version? How long have the engines taken to catch up? For us, I've noticed that Google takes between 2 and 6 weeks to recognize and properly index, although the rankings seem to follow fairly directly...
I was reading from John Suler's "The Psychology of Cyberspace" last night and came to the conclusion that the web's communication style has actually evolved much more rapidly than I would have ever imagined. John notes several big tendencies of online interaction: Disassociative Anonymity - no one kn...
SEOmoz is moving our offices in the next month or two - if anyone has any beads on space in Seattle (between 1000-2000 square feet, Class A), please drop me a line. We've been having a tough time finding something suitable and it's taking up way too much time. The commercial real estate market seems to have heated up in the last 18 months, and we're looking art almost boom-like prices in many a...
Lots of sites have a very simple homepage design. Google is a perfect example of this. However, I have found that loading up the homepage with information has increased sales, pageviews, visitor time-on-site, and linkbuild rate. (Rand and Matt's new design for seomoz.org - shown at right ...