SMX West Rocks! But you might need a few tips to get the most out of it:Do not let your staff and clients spam you into Search Bowl, unless you like beer and humiliation.Bring an outlet strip or spare battery. Electrical outlets are few and far between. The internet access, however, is excellent.Don't use the men's room next to A3. For some reason, it's...
I was thinking "if there was one bit of advice that would stand me in good stead for my SEO efforts what would it be?" This inspired me to try a little experimental poll. I realise I myself am not adding any content of merit here (I just don't have the experience to do so) but I think that the answers of the community here will more than compensate. So if this gets through and peo...
I like to think that I was born just in time to live through the first truly global revolution. I am a 20 year old student who has watched computers and the internet transform the world. Unlike my predecessors, I rarely watch live TV, never listen to the radio and haven't bought a CD in nearly a decade (last one was Offspring's ...
A fair criticism of SEOmoz's Premium Content has always been that while the material inside is valuable, the organization and instructions don't always provide a clear path, particularly for those new to the service or for inexperienced search marketers. Back in December, I wrote a post that walked through how to use many of the tools and content pieces inside Premium, and now, at SMX West next...
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While catching up on some reading in the blog and YOUmoz section here at SEOmoz, I realized that I haven't been keeping up my end of the bargain as far as sharing much lately. A lot of that has to do with taking a new job in January managing the e-commerce / web operations for DSW (kind of a "buy shoes online" start-up opportunity that has ...
Mystery Guest and I were talking over dinner tonight about how ours (the current 25-30 year old age group) is essentially the last generation to experience a pre-Internet childhood. If you turned 18 after ~1999, your upbringing was probably impacted, at least in part, by the rise of the web (at least in regions with high Internet penetration rates). What will we tell our children about tho...
1. You shall not worship any other search engine but Google - Ignoring this fact can seriously harm your traffic2. You shall not make a copywrite our logo - Remember all those goggle & gooogle engines?3. You shall not take the name of Google in vain. - We have the technology to seek out all written information 4. You shall rest on the Sabbath. - That way we can tweak al...
First, a big thank you to each of the participants of the “Youmoz – Win a free SEOmoz Premium Membership contest”. I think it’s fair to say the contest was a success and both the contributors and readers came out winners. This is one fantastic community. Most of you are aware that the one year membership was generously offered up by Paul @ Cred...
Throughout its existance, the SEOmoz blog has always strived to be something very different from a Search Engine Land, Marketing Pilgrim or Search Engine Journal, by providing advice, insight, and under-the-radar stories from the world of search and webmas...
Should the Mozzers be paid for their posts in YOUmoz?I mean, I love the all comunity free thinking thing, but when you think about it, we are all helping seomoz for free. Our posts end up being indexed in the Search Engines and when people click, they are entering a comercial website, that sells premium memberships. So where does this leave all of the Mozzers out there, that devot...
Back in mid-December, SEOmoz made a number of changes to our use of the rel="nofollow" tag on the internal link structure of this site. We nofollowed dozens of links on many of our template pages to help control the flow of link juice through to our more important pages - the content in the Blog, YOUmoz, Marketplace and Articles. The results? ...
For the past couple weeks, I've been chatting over email with the folks at Compete.com about their web popularity reporting & analytics tools. Luckily enough, Jeremy Crane, the Director of Search & Online Media for Compete, agreed to an interview. Below, you can learn a lot more about how Compete gathers data, where...
In honor of today's holiday, I thought I'd change up the subject and talk a little bit about leadership in a small business startup. This is a subject that I don't have nearly the authority or experience to speak about in the same way as SEO. After all, I've worked on dozens of successful search marketing projects, but only one startup - ...