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Business Assets + Historical Tracking = Serious Value
One of the areas we rarely touch on here at SEOmoz is how to use your offline, general business assets for SEO. Today I want to tackle that along with the seemingly unrelated subject of watching historical progress. At the end of this excercise, I think you'll see why these two tie together so nicely.
Whiteboard Friday - When to Track Rankings
Okay, so any of us in the online marketing world have been guilty of obsessing over rankings at one time or another. Well, in this week's Whiteboard Friday, Rand makes the case that Rank Tracking may not be the end all be all of SEO metrics, at least not by itself. Take a look and see what else you need to be monitoring in order to make rank tracking truly worthwhile to your sites a...
Advanced Google Analytics - Zero Visits and Search Page Referrer
A combination of advanced Google Analytics tips and tricks as well as some insight from Avinash Kaushik on details of the way that GA tracks repeat visitors.
Root Domains, Subdomains vs. Subfolders and The Microsite Debate
Root Domains - the domain name you need to buy/register with a TLD extension. Subdomains - the "third level" domain name; these are free to create under any root domain you own/control.
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The Best Spam Submission Ever
As you may know, one of my job duties here is to manage our user-generated blog. Every day I sift through the queue of blog entry submissions and publish posts about Internet marketing, business tactics, social media, web dev/design, etc. While I publish one or two worthy, relevant blog entries each day, I delete several spam submissions. I've seen spam entr...
Linkbaiting Our Way to a Better World?
Link baiting has been around for a fair while now, and we all know the basic concept is essentially driven by self interest, i.e., increasing website traffic for financial or personal gain.
5 Ways Obama Should Change How You Communicate
After Obama's inauguration speech last week, a lot of attention was paid to his speechwriter, Jon Favreau. Listening to Obama and reading about how he and Favreau wrote the speech got me thinking about how we use language when writing for the web. I spent some time analysing Obama's oratory and reading about the subject.
10 Tips for When Startup Life Gives You Lemons...
There's no doubt about it - being a startup in any economic condition is rough, and in the current tumult, mind-bending challenges aren't out of the ordinary. However, I, like most other entrepreneurs I've encountered, am a staunch optimist and thus, even in the face of hardship, seek the silver lining. Tonight, I'd like to share a few of the diamonds in the dung pile that are closest to my heart.
Struggling Against Google's Greatest Advantage
Thousands of posts, news articles and analysis pieces have covered the central topic of battling Google's dominance in web search, but I've seen very few that have discussed what is, in my opinion, the most telling example of the search giant's dominance. The latest (made popular across Techmeme and many individual blogs) was this piece from C|Net's Don Reisinger: