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Accuracy of Yahoo! Linkdomain
Rand Fishkin

Accuracy of Yahoo! Linkdomain

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: ...

Create Logos on the Fly
Rand Fishkin

Create Logos on the Fly

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 ...

Organic SEO Wiki
Rand Fishkin

Organic SEO Wiki

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...

Bum Rush the SEOmoz Tools
Rand Fishkin

Bum Rush the SEOmoz Tools

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 ...

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Did Search Engines Ever Use Keyword Density
Rand Fishkin

Did Search Engines Ever Use Keyword Density

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...

Domain Buyers Anonymous
Rand Fishkin

Domain Buyers Anonymous

A few of the more prominent spammers at SEOChat have come out to play in a thread on the subject of domain registration. Geof starts off by noting that he's recently purchased 500 new domains, all of which will probably be b...

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Gauging Keyword Performance
Rand Fishkin

Gauging Keyword Performance

Today has me thinking on the subject of measuring keyword performance. I'm about to begin a relatively large scale campaign on both the organic and PPC side for a client and have wrestled with the neccessary facts and figures to track in order to have reasonable metrics. Here's a sh...

A New Home Page
Rand Fishkin

A New Home Page

On the suggestion of a friend, I've changed my home page to a new location, Wikipedia's Random Article page - it's a special feature and has to be manually entered as the home page for your web browser, but it's a great way to learn something new every time you start surfing. If it bogs down workflow too much, I may change back, but for ...

Web Color Schemes
Rand Fishkin

Web Color Schemes

In the world of web design, one of the most frustrating topics I butt my head up against is color scheme. I search and search the color wheel in Photoshop and scour the web to help inspire me on themes that will work for a client or a site. Luckily, I now have some help, and ...