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The 12-Step Landing Page Rehab Program [Infographic]
As with that other program, the first and most critical step is admitting you actually have a problem. So go ahead. Shout it out loud so your coworkers can hear: “My name is Earl. My conversion rate sucks, and I can't stop sending expensive PPC traffic to my homepage.” Feel better? You should. You just ...
Create a Link Building Team Within Your Organization
At a small or medium sized company, you might be part of a very small team with responsibility for SEO, or you may the only person - and it might not even be your full time job. In these cases, people often tell me that the greatest struggle is finding time and resources to do link building for their site. Rather than pitching your boss to hire a new team member to assist with SEO and link building, you may have more success (and get more value out of) asking for a little time with members of different teams from different disciplines.
It's Gonna Be Good: August PRO Training Seminar Finalized
Today, instead of playing in the uber-rare Seattle sunshine, I spent the day polishing off the PRO Training seminar schedule and it looks amazing. I'm excited to see these sessions myself (and I rarely sit through presentations). Check it out for yourself below; if you're inclined and available, we'd love to see you.Oh, and don't wo...
Working with Navigation in SEO [SEO Fundamentals]
Building a solid foundation in your site architecture using search engine friendly navigation is a founding principle in good search engine optimization, but what does that actually mean, and what recommendations can you make to enhance your clients (or your own) SEO? In this article, we’ll look at a few examples of well coded, search friendly navigation and look at ways to enhance your site architecture for SEO.
Yup, SEO Can Be A Competitive Advantage
Another great post from Jason Cohen popped onto my radar yesterday entitled "Startup Competitive Advantages the Work." As a passionate (OK, maybe obsessed is the right word) startup guy and someone who loves SEO, I couldn't help but want to jump into the fray with ...
Whiteboard Friday - The Biggest SEO Mistakes SEOmoz Has Ever Made
This week's Whiteboard Friday features the return of Rand (woo hoo!) and his self declared biggest SEO mistakes. We screw up a lot here at SEOmoz (hell, they hired me), so we feel it is only appropriate to take this opportunity to share what we have learned in an effort to prevent you from making our mistakes. SEO is complicated, the best we can do is practice, work hard and compare notes.
Statistics 101: Deviations
So, it’s time for my second swat-up on statistics. Last time we covered the different types of averages there are, and how you may use them. This time, we’re looking at how we can measure deviations from that. I know I said there would be a week’s wait, but I've ended up...
Facebook Marketing: Ultimate Guide
Howdy SEOmoz fans! It is an overused practice to start from some "shocking" stats and dissertate on how Facebook is powerful and important for business. I will just consider you all know what is Facebook and how cool i...
An Inside Look at Competitors Backlinks with Open Site Explorer
Hi SEOmoz folks, Sometimes we begin a new SEO consulting service and do not to know where to start our Link Building. We have a lot of options but the first thing I really like to do is to analyze what my competitors are doing. As we know, one of the best ways to analyze backlinks is by using Open Site Explorer (OSE)...
6 Ways to Learn SEO
One of the most common questions we receive here at SEOmoz is "What's the best way to learn SEO?" There are many ways to answer, but in this post, I'm going to cover the responses I give most often and those I've seen have the most success. But, before I describe each of these, it pays to understand that not all learning methodologies are the same in style, substance or where the...