Talking about LinkBait
Everyone's on about linkbait these days. First Matt mentioned it, now Loren Baker's got a post and Andy's covering both. I thought I'd throw in my $0.02 real quick, as SEOmoz ...
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SEO vs. Conversion Debate Shouldn't Exist
Michael Nguyen, whose Social Patterns blog often has cool stuff, wrote an entry last week that made me wonder about som continuing myths in SEO: Before optimization a site is converting about ...
5 Ways to Spend $2000 on SEO
Mike's conversation on push vs. pull SEO continues at Clickz today. He's specifically seeking input on how Mom & Pop sized businesses can utlilize the services of SEO with a very limi...
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Google Pontiac
I was watching "That 70s Show" last night (yes, Rand, I was only pretending to watch the Seahawks game) when something caught my eye in a Pontiac commercial. I usually ignore TV ads unless they're during the Superbowl, as they more often than not serve to annoy me, but suddenly, in the middle of a Pontiac ad, was the Google search page and the announcer was crooning, "Don't take our word for it, Google "Pontiac" to find out!"
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Quest for budget SEO package (part 5): link building
Both Michael and Rand have recently blogged about basic level link building and visibility and I’m about to chime in. Below are my top 5 tips to make link building process cost and resource efficient if you are a SEO services provider ...
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Re-designing SEOmoz
The re-design of SEOmoz has proven itself to be a very difficult and time consuming task, as you can see I'm still working on the header. Rand suggested I write a blog entry so you can all see how things are coming along and share in my turmoil. :) Some of the designs turned out okay, others are just plain horrible. I've found my best work comes by accident, so I often just ...
Welcome to our Newest SEOmoz Blogger - Michael Martinez
I want to extend a warm welcome to Michael Martinez, who's agreed to join SEOmoz's blog team at my request. I know. I know. Michael's not your typical personality ...
egoSurf - Scraping Like Mad
Via SEW (via Phil Bradley) - it's egoSurf, where you can use their numerical algorithm...
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Brief Contest Update
The v7n...etc. contest is in full swing, with Google and Yahoo! reporting respectable numbers of results in 5 figures. Sadly, the linkdomain searches to the new domains that are ranking aren't quite accurate (I hope). Either that or domain names really do carry a lot of weight in helping to rank. Note some of the leaders: www.watching-paint-dry.com/v7ndotcom-elursrebmem ...
What a Phone Call to SEOmoz Looks Like
With so many phone calls coming in nowadays, I thought it might be interesting to diagram the anatomy of what a request for services call to SEOmoz looks like. Because the number on the website routes directly to my cellphone when I'm not in the office, I get calls at 5:30am and 10:00pm, even on the weekends. Naturally, I turn the phone to silent when I'm sleeping, but I've had calls wi...
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Visitors Judge a Site in 1/20th of a Second
Just saw this article at Nature about how visitors to a website can form an impression about it in just 50 milliseconds. We all think that content is important but this article argues that ...
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AJAX Powered IP to Location Lookup
In the midst of re-designing SEOmoz I decided I really needed a change of pace. I've only lightly used AJAX, so I decided to build an AJAX powered tool that looks up the geographic location of an IP address. It seemed simple enough to build and I figured it'd ...
Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the US
Dr. King is, to me, one of the greatest heroes of the modern era. Every year I find myself wishing I could do more to honor his memory and this year, there's a few sites on the web that are doing a great job: Reme...
Updating a Logo
I noticed a highly linked-to post on Fizbang web design that covered how to re-touch and update a logo. Interestingly enough, Matt just re-made the logo for SEOmoz (for our new business cards and new website - on its way). Check out a walkthrough: ...