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gVisit
Rand Fishkin

gVisit

gVisit is a tool that you can install on your site to see where the last 20-100 visitors to your site came from geographically. It's nothing sophisticated, but it is another example of a site using Google's map API to create something unique, and building on the succes...

RSS Discussions
Rand Fishkin

RSS Discussions

An excellent thread at SEOChat points out the defintion of RSS (Really Simple Syndication) and how it's use in websites for SEO purposes can help to boost things like pages indexed, fresh content, and the "long tail" of search visitors. In particular, several resources were pointed to: How to ...

Let's Talk about Your Workspace
Rand Fishkin

Let's Talk about Your Workspace

Today I found my way over to some of CNET's more personalized content, a section on home office pohots sent in by users. Of course, CNET offers their own guidelines as to what you should buy to improve the space, and links to the stuff you already have so readers can bu...

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Pack Your Website Bags
Rand Fishkin

Pack Your Website Bags

One of the big time spammers at SEOChat - Geoffrey of Syndk8 - has posted a great advice thread on the value of having a quick and easy exit from your website host. Geoff's host caught on to some of his nefarious practices and apparently doesn't approve, so he's been in a bit of a spot. Donna...

Bum Rush the SEOmoz Tools
Rand Fishkin

Bum Rush the SEOmoz Tools

We're nearing completion of the fixes, error removals and problems associated with the SEOmoz tools, but we need your help. When the tools get slammed is when they're at their most vulnerable, so we invite you today to run all the reports you've been putting off and see how accurate our data is - some tools are still returning bad results, but ...

A New Home Page
Rand Fishkin

A New Home Page

On the suggestion of a friend, I've changed my home page to a new location, Wikipedia's Random Article page - it's a special feature and has to be manually entered as the home page for your web browser, but it's a great way to learn something new every time you start surfing. If it bogs down workflow too much, I may change back, but for ...

Posting Light Today
Rand Fishkin

Posting Light Today

Due to my work schedule being overwhelmingly busy today, I won't be posting much. I feel bad about this, since my loyal readers - you - have been kind enough to drop by. There are a few interesting things taking place in the SEO world that are worth reading about: Kim Krause-Berg is talking about...

SEO Browser
Rand Fishkin

SEO Browser

Ian McAnerin & Anduro Technologies have put together a very clever and useful tool called the SEO Browser. The site acts as an interpreter, giving you an opporunity to view a we...

What is SEOmoz Planning?
Rand Fishkin

What is SEOmoz Planning?

SEOmoz is re-launching around the end of next week with a slightly updated look and feel, along with some other new items, which I've listed below: The SEO Tools will have 2 dedicated servers to reduce wait times A new link pricing tool is complete and await...

The SEOmoz Quiz
Rand Fishkin

The SEOmoz Quiz

I whipped together something fun for the SEO community to do on their respective lunchbreaks today - the SEOmoz Quiz. It's fun, light-hearted and easy to cheat on (but don't do that 'cause you'll spoil all the fun). Anyone who gets a perfect s...