This is a tough post to write. Not because I'm not excited and not because the news I want to share isn't positive, but simply because I feel like I've been keeping something from you for the past few weeks, and I hate doing that. Of course, it's nowhere near as tough as hiding my Super Bowl engagement from Mystery Guest...
After nearly 4 weeks of running our landing page competition, we have a winner... Paul Robb of CredibleCopy.org, who put together this winning entry. Congratulations to Paul, who wins the grand prize of $1,000, a copy of the Offermatica sof...
A while back I talked about the frustrations of explaining my line of work to my relatives, but I'm starting to think that maybe ignorance truly is bliss. I recently heard two examples of non-search people's perceptions about how the search engines work, and it is frustrating to think that some people believe that this is actually how the search industry operates.
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Since Read/Write Web is covering 10 future web trends today, I though it would be a perfect time to present my own theories on how search engines might be innovating their technologies. Query Intent Detection It seems that all of the major engines have eschewed disambiguati...
Yes, I’m back on my Big Brand soapbox… again. We have great clients, most really eager to get effective SEO going, but facing big issues. A lot of the issues faced by the big brands can be applied to smaller sites in a more scalable manner, so I thought I would post about some of the major issues the big brands face: Onpage factors really only acc...
It's Labor Day in the US, and technically, that means we should be celebrating the history of the labor movement and the advancements that lead to greater leisure time. This weekend, Mystery Guest and I are joining my grandparents to hike some canyons in the SouthWest - Zion, Antelope and hopefully, Bryce, too. Since the weather is hovering around 108 degrees fahrenheit, 42 centigrade, I d...
Even though I've only been a member for a couple of months, I'm a big fan of SEOmoz - I love the blog posts (both from staff and users), the articles, the tools and all the premium content, but I think the best thing about SEOmoz is the great community of Mozzers.The comments and feedback provided by the members here can turn a good article into a great one thanks to the varying ...
I'm taking a temporary break in conference coverage (don't worry - there will be more next week) to poll some of the smartest people I know (that's you, SEOmoz readers), about an issue that's been keeping Gillian and I up plenty of nights during the past 3 months. SEOmoz is at a tipping point of sorts - we've gone from being primarily a search marketing consultantcy business, ...
I was stumbling around the net today and ran across one of the SEOmoz PPC ads. I remembered reading a post by Rand recently talking about a Premium Member Landing Page Contest and wanted to see if it was going on so I clicked the ad to see the landing page. After doing so, I looked around to see if I could find these...
Since Rand's out of town, we decided to be super-productive and took the liberty of Simpsonizing all of the SEOmoz staffers. Enjoy! Rand: Gillian:...
I know that the keyword meta tag is dead, just like punk rock is dead and Andy Kaufman is dead. Is there a huge, pressing reason to use it? No, of course not. A little research reveals that few engines, if any, even look at it anymore. Every little bit helps, right? What drives me nuts, however, is the common concensus among the few professionals I've met and spoken with on forums that seem...
...at least, according to my relatives I do. I'm in Michigan right now. Hot, humid, flat, skinny tree'd, built Ford (or GM, or Chrysler) tough Michigan. I was born and raised here, but moved to Seattle for college, where I fell in love with the Emerald City and got a pretty sweet internship-turned-job working at the Moz Plex. Still, like a good daughter/sister/niece, I try to visit the Mother Land...