Shame on me for taking almost 2 months to post on the addition of Rebecca Kelley to our team at SEOmoz. Rebecca started out as an intern through the Univ. of WA and became totally indispensable. She's the kind of person who finishes a week's worth of work in 8 hours, and she isn't yet overwhelemed by multiple projects to manage, she's become our go-to resource for everything from c...
I'm proud to welcome Guillaume Bouchard to our blogging team at SEOmoz. Guillaume and I have communicated a few times over email, but after meeting him at the conference, I knew he was a guy who "gets it". In the search marketing field, Guillaume may be relatively unknown, but he's one of French-speaking Canada's foremost S...
I'm looking to contribute to an IRA account for the first time this year. Since tomorrow is the deadline for paying into these funds, I thought I'd seek the advice of other small business owners and self-employed folks. Who do you recommend opening an account with? Roth IRA vs. Traditional - good resources/articles on how to choose Investment ...
I promised a friend that we've have the data related to SEOmoz's Web 2.0 Awards posted today and I'd hate to dissapoint. I'm providing statistics from launch in the early morning of Tuesday, March 28 to today - a total of 10 days (8 weekdays). Traffic (unique visits): M...
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Darren Miller, a network security consultant, has written an easy-to-grasp piece on exactly how password cracking is done. Although his example uses social engineering to bypass the first few layers of security, it's the type of breach that could happen to anyone. For t...
A little background reading first for those of you who are not familiar with what a Ponzi scheme is.I would assume most of you are doing your daily activities because you want to make some form of money and, you also hope that you'll be able to retire comfortably one day.That's an admirable goal and the Internet has spawned a...
I was recently asked by a friend of mine why I still bother with my nefarious black hat activities.As he put it, I could spend the time I'm building throwaway sites to pump out some sites that get repeat visitors. Of course, he's always harping on this particular subject but I decided to go into a bit more depth this time and play with the numbers a little bit......
I'm thrilled to welcome Geoffrey, aka G-Man as the latest blogger addition to the SEOmoz team. G-Man has a strong technical background and is familiar with both the white and black hat sides of SEO. I'm looking forward to his uni...
Lots of people use the Overture Keyword Tool to estimate search volumes and get ideas for additional keywords to target. I went there over the weekend to do a few domain searches. I felt that it would be a good way to measure "brand strength"...
And now for something completely different. Via Slate - Ireland's "Crack" Habit: In the last 15 years, Dublin-based IPCo and its competitors have fabricated and installed more than 1,800 watering holes in more than 50 countries. Guinness threw its weight (and that...
SEOmoz is moving our offices in the next month or two - if anyone has any beads on space in Seattle (between 1000-2000 square feet, Class A), please drop me a line. We've been having a tough time finding something suitable and it's taking up way too much time. The commercial real estate market seems to have heated up in the last 18 months, and we're looking art almost boom-like prices in many a...
Just wanted to point out MyHeritage.com's facial recognition and matching software, which has given my girlfriend quite a thrill. It seems that I'm a 51% facial match to Cary Grant - she's glowing right now. ...
Thanks to Ian Mcanerin, who suggested the Canadian government's new TLD - .gov.ca (the humble fellow isn't taking credit, far too gentlemanly). The debate on what to choose was relatively interesting, with the French Canadian contigent complaining bitterly that .gouv.ca was not the choice. B...
I talked to some very smart folks last night over dinner about Craigslist and their position in the market. Currently, CL is the leader in online classifieds, they've had great success porting their model to other cities and countries and they have a built-in loyalty and fan base that rivals that of any online user-generated-content site. The question is - w...