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Just a quick question for readers - how long did it take you from when you first learned about SEO to install the Google toolbar and check out PR on every site? And, conversely, how many weeks/months/years until you uninstalled it? For me, it was about 10 days into first learning about SEO back in 2002 that I installed the toolbar. It wasn't until July-August of 2004 that I finally got ...
Since I know that most of the readers here are big fans of free content, I figured this review of Bittorrent clients by Michael Calore might be of interest. His final take for Windows users is µTorrent and for Mac, the official Bittor...
I know it's late, but this post from Todd is inspiring - 21 Tips for Better Online Credibility. My favorite is #21: 21. Have a freakin’ sense of humor...Take time to laugh, poke fun at yourself, and make others laugh as well. Show people that y...
I just love this post. My favorites: Website Hijacking: This practice should be called Digital Content Re-Assignment. Offshore Link Building: This process should be known as Financially Prudent Methodology for Increasing Brand Awareness....
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For anyone who's unfamiliar with Eric Ward, he's the web's original link builder, conducting campaigns for folks like Amazon.com back in the early 90's.Since that time, Eric has built relationships and connections with some of the...
The saga of redirecting all requests to http://www.seomoz.org/index.php to point to http://www.seomoz.org/ has finally come to an end. We now practice what we preach. For those who are not familiar, it's important to have all duplicate content point to a single, "canonical" edition of the content. Requests to index.php and requests to www.seomoz.org/ have the same content even though they have ...
Xan has a good post today exploring the world of TDT - Topic Detection research. We've been trying to work on something quick and dirty that automatically classifies a web page into a hierarchical category structure based on the key terms and phrases we've found to be common in that topic area. We've had no s...
Anybody getting good traffic from StumbleUpon.com? That site first started getting my attention a few months ago while examining my logs. I didn't think that it would be a serious source of traffic but the referrals have gone up and now I am avera...
Back in the days before the web, many of the MS Windows bundles games had "back to work" buttons that would open up a blank spreadsheet document on top of the game in order to "hide" a worker's activities from perusing bosses doing their walk around. Hilarious...
I noticed via my tracking this week that 15 people have found the SEOmoz blog by typing in $19 SEO at Google. I have to assume it's folks who've heard the pun and are curious about how this long running joke began, so I figured I'd provide an explanation (I've got another, cooler reason for bringing it up, but we'll save that for later on). The $19 joke began in this ...
I loved this post from Laura at High Rankings yesterday. Brilliant stuff: How to talk SEO to a CEOTalk numbers, money, traffic. Show pretty graphs. Steer clear of tech talk.Attire: suitSay: “Looking at last years’ numbers, if we implem...
Dana Melick, a Seattle SEO who works for BeyondInk, took me to lunch today. We had a terrific time chatting about the Seattle Seahawks and our personal experiences at Seahawks Stadium. We also talked a lot about the SEO industry and some trends that both of us have been noticing. One of our most interesting conversations was about the acquisition of SEOs a...
Snipermilk put together a cool battle system between many well known folks in our sphere (including yours truly). You can also upload your own photos to do battle - I added DazzlinDonna and pitted her against Aaron Wall in...
Lots of questions popping up lately about how to rank well on Google.co.uk vs. Google.com. Danny shared this nugget of gold at SEW today: google uk is going to favor uk based sites by default, even if you don't use the pages from the uk option. you want to do well ...