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Where In the World is SEOmoz - April-May 2010
Whew! The Spring conference season is in full swing, and the mozzers are coming soon to a city near you. You'll find us anywhere from Charlotte, NC to Barcelona to Singapore in the next couple months. The coolest part is that we're attending and speaking at some conferences for the very first time. It feels good to get out and stretch a bit! Plus, the developer in us will be attending conferenc...
Linkscape Index Update and a Peek Behind the Curtains
Last week we updated the Linkscape index, and we've been doing it again this week. As I've pointed out in the past, up-to-date data is critical. So we're pushing everyone around here just about as hard as we can to p...
Why Google Analytics Opt-Out Won't Matter
As you probably heard, Google announced last week that they are working on a browser plug-in to let users opt-out of Google Analytics tracking. But th...
Creating an Online Video Strategy
Lots of us keep hearing about how video is such a compelling medium and a great way to engage your customers. Not long ago Rand presented a Whiteboard Friday Video where he covers some of the basics around video SEO, like the trade offs between using a third party site, or hosting the video yourself. In the following post, I hope to add a little more to that topic and talk about some additional strategies that combine these ideas - starting with a 3 step process to help you get started with creating a video strategy for your website
The Advanced SEO Training Series: Tips, Tricks & Tactics 2 is Here!
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Link Magnets: A New Paradigm in Link Acquisition
This morning I gave a presentation at SES New York on a session entitled "How to Become a Link Magnet." Below, I've copied the presentation into this post and hope to create some context around it. In my opinion, the "link magnet" concept, however it's phrased, is one of the most powerful...
Whiteboard Friday - Faceted Navigation
Whiteboard Friday this week covers faceted navigation and how to handle pages and results ordering that's good for users, but not search engines.
Web Seer - Using Google Suggest for Keyword Research
Google's "Suggest" feature is an interesting insight into popular searches - start typing a search phrase and Google will suggest popular phrases based on recent queries: (I find Number 4 in the list is particu...
Announcing the New SEOmoz Toolbar - Plus 5 New Features
First, let me make a quick introduction. Normally, I spend my time focused on new products at SEOmoz, working with a great team of people that design and build our new tools and features. Today I am excited to use my first blog post to announce our new SEO toolbar, and tell you about some of the powerful features we have added.
An Illustrated Guide to Matt Cutts' Comments on Crawling & Indexation
Late last week, Eric Enge of Stone Temple (and a co-author of mine on The Art of SEO) published a fascinating interview with Google's head of Webspam, Matt Cutts. I think the whole of the S...