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The Bing Sting Facts: Why Bing Isn't Copying Google

For anyone who hasn't been following this week/last week's whole Google and Bing copying and not copying saga, let me fill you in. Google noticed late last year that Bing were showing the same result as Google for a misspelled query (torsorophy which should have been spelt, tarsorrhaphy). But Bing showed no spelling correction in their result. The news was broken via Danny Sullivan in another great investigative journalistic pieces.

International SEO: Where to Host and How to Target

International SEO is big business, and big business equals big websites. It can be really confusing when you have to cater to a target audience that is the entire world: you know that people from different countries and cultures are going to be looking for different things. We've had a lot of PRO members' Q&A questions come in about this issue lately, so this week, Rand helps us ...

The Nature of the "100-link Limit" of Google

SEOmoz is one of my favorite places to have some SEO fun time, because you can always find sparkling ideas about SEO there. Today Dr. Pete wrote a post titled How Many Links Is Too Many? and explained why we shoul...

State of the Community

Every now and then it's important to take a good look at your community, see where you stand, remember where you've been and take a look at where you're going. Today I wanted to take the time to do just that. Over the next month-ish we have a number of changes and additions happening to the SEOmoz Community that I wanted to let everyone know about. I also thought it would be fun to take a look at our community from a numbers perspective.

Corporate SEO - Link Building by Letter

There are countless ways of contacting people in search for a link, and in a time when social networking has become the norm - surely there is no place still for the humble written letter? What follows in this post is a...

Summary of the #FutureSearch Talk with Google, Bing & Blekko

Wow. Today has been interesting - I woke up to the news that Bing copies Google search results and I've ended my day watching a live cast debate between Google, Bing and Blekko over on BigThink.This post wraps up some of my thoug...

Common URL Related SEO Mistakes

One of the most overlooked issues of on-page optimisation by clients, and even many SEO agencies are guilty of this on occasion, is a website's URL structure. It is almost becoming my first port of call when taking on a new client, as correcting URLs and how they are formed can be one of the quickest wins a site can achieve. A sites URL structure also underpins all future SEO efforts and is fun...

Is SEO Immoral?

Inquiring Quorites want to know: Is SEO immoral? We search for relevance via the search engine. By learning and manipulating the system to accomplish its goal, SEO makes it more likely that you will come upon a target that is irrelevant. Thereby, wasting...

Five Ways to Get Links From Fan Sites

Whatever your site's topic, there are likely to be independent fan sites that overlap with the subjects on your site.
This post has advice about identifying the niches to target and finding appropriate sites to talk to, and then give some tips about how you could get them to link to you.

Step by Step Guide to Interviewing Experts

I have just completed two major projects requiring interviewing. The first being my new eBook where I interviewed 12 experts including Ann Smarty, Tamar Weinberg, Linda Bustos, Marko Saric, Glen Allsopp. And I also interviewed Andrew Warner about how he interviews inspirational business people for his interview site Mixergy.com.

How Organized Spam is Taking Control of Google's Search Results

In the past few months, I have been watching a very unsettling trend unfold in very competitive ecommerce search results on Google. It appears that huge amounts of money are put into place to systematically and successfully manipulate highly competitive search terms in order to sell fake merchandise of almost every bigger brand out there. Some of these sites even...

Interlinking Your Sites

This week Rand dives into a topic that many of you have asked about in our Pro Q&A, “Interlinking my websites, can I do it?” As an SEO you can almost guarantee that you will be asked; “Why can’t I just buy 100 domains and link them back to my website with amazing anchor text and then conquer the world?” Rand give some helpful hints on when it is appropriate to link to your other sites and when it’s not such a great idea. After watching, please feel free to voice your option on the subject and how you deal with interlinking your websites.