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Yahoo! is promoting, on their homepage no less, a video contest where users send in their favorite short videos - the promotion specifically features one of a bulldog riding on a skateboard. The videos are then consid...
Invitationsgirl at SEOChat asks - Can I get out of my SEO Contract? There's quite a bit of good advice about contracts in general and SEO specifically in this thread, but mostly what we're seeing here is the forums serving as a business refuge and tool. There's several individuals in the thread who are p...
While many in SEO, myself included, pride themselves on being independent contractors or owners of small firms (in my case), there are others who are seeking that prestigious, well paying position in the Internet industry that will provide security, challenges and a fun work environment. ...
Today I found my way over to some of CNET's more personalized content, a section on home office pohots sent in by users. Of course, CNET offers their own guidelines as to what you should buy to improve the space, and links to the stuff you already have so readers can bu...
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One of the largest online tech communities is the world-wide phenomenon of web, graphic & media designers. This illustrative and overflowing group floods the web with portal communities that take 10 minutes to download, even with a broadband connection. Th...
Although they don't get much attention, to the graphically and web adept, favicons are a source of great pride and study. These little 16-pixel graphics are an endless source of optimization and promotion for an entire community of designers, as illustrated by the Delta Tango Bravo blog entr...
Once again, EGOL from SEOChat has sent in a contribution for SEOmoz.Good .edu links are getting harder to get thse days. Most professors are moving away from .html webpages and into cou...
One of the big time spammers at SEOChat - Geoffrey of Syndk8 - has posted a great advice thread on the value of having a quick and easy exit from your website host. Geoff's host caught on to some of his nefarious practices and apparently doesn't approve, so he's been in a bit of a spot. Donna...
Since I'm in the process of re-building the information architecture for two clients this week, I thought I'd re-visit Dr. Garcia's paper - On-Topic Analysis. For those who aren't familiar with the concept behind the research, on-topic analysis is a system that's designed to help you organize your site's content by topic ...
Today, Barry over at SERoundtable commented that Yahoo! appears to be having some serious issues with how many results its linkdomain command displays. Like Barry, I decided to take a deeper look into the links Yahoo! recognizes to SEOmoz.org. Here are some of the results: ...
Although logo design is one of my banes, people still occassionally request that we do it. Lucky for us, helpful sites like LogoYes are great for providing a complete logo at a low, low price, or providing inspiration, if nothing ...
An old idea of mine was to produce a wiki for SEO. Happily, someone else has taken on the project (as I really never got around to it). It's called Organic SEO and it's got a fairly good basic walkthrough of the principles of optimization already. I u...
We're nearing completion of the fixes, error removals and problems associated with the SEOmoz tools, but we need your help. When the tools get slammed is when they're at their most vulnerable, so we invite you today to run all the reports you've been putting off and see how accurate our data is - some tools are still returning bad results, but ...
While looking around for some tokenization databases to help me build a term weight analysis tool, I came across a Microsoft article from January of 1997 on the subject of text analysis. This paper discusses some of the elements used in text processing, topic detection and classification and clearly shows that in 1997, search engine...