Blog Posts
2/10/2010
This blog post is geared at the analytics driven, SEO savvy, search samurai looking to implement tracking code best practices and take advantage of some useful Google Analytics plugins. The focus of this post is on Google Analytics, but many of the concepts are also applicable no matter which web analytics platform you're using.
2/4/2010
How do you get articles indexed and ranking in Google News? This blog post, which builds off the information provided in the Google News publisher help center and in Maile Ohye's awesome video on Google News, provides publishers with a basic primer of factors to consider before submitting articles to Google News.
1/13/2010
SEOmoz shares internal traffic statistics from 2009, as well as conversion rate mistakes and opportunities to apply in 2010. In addition to analytics data, the post also has 11 actionable conversion takeaways.
11/26/2009
A Thanksgiving edition of the weekly search roundup with all the fixings. From Google SERP changes to actionable analytics insights, this week's post is full of more stuffing than Grandma's turkey.
11/12/2009
In a week dominated by Veterans Day news stories and Pubcon coverage, Google and Bing announced several product changing rollouts, as well as some game changing acquisitions.
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10/22/2009
The 1st half of October saw its fair share of search news, announcements, & blogger-mama drama. And from Twitter search to Google Analytics' new roll out, there were plenty of headlines beyond the back-and-forth between Derek Powazek & Danny Sullivan.
10/15/2009
To identify the most linked to pages on the world's most popular websites, we used SEOmoz's Linkscape powered top pages tool to compile a list of 105 of the most linked to pages on 17 of the Internet's most popular sites.
The results are both surprising and amusing, but from Google to GaGa the most linked to pages on the internet provide an interesting look at your favorite domains that will make you scratch your head as much as it will make you laugh.
9/11/2009
If you're looking to learn more about internet marketing, Market Motive offers a certification course that's worth checking out. And if you're an SEOmoz reader, take advantage of your $500 discount.
9/3/2009
From worthwhile industry reads to actionable YOUmoz articles, there was an abundance of scintillating reads this week in the search world.
8/27/2009
From Oprah's affiliate smackdown to Fox News' list of jobs that will leave you friendless, there was no shortage of interesting news this week in the world of search.
8/6/2009
'This week in search' is a compilation of some of the most interesting, newsworthy, and useful stories in and around the world of search over the last 1-2 weeks.
7/16/2009
In 1970 the total retail value of pornography was no more than 10 million dollars. Today, porn is close to a billion dollar industry. According to Alexa, four of the hundred most trafficked sites one the web are porn sites. Every month there are over million searches made every month for porn related terms and that number is ...
6/25/2009
A lot a marketers focus optimization efforts deep down the conversion funnel. One particularly effective way to examine conversion rates and inform site changes is to filter out visitors who bounce. This gives you a view of your engagement data that shows only interested visitors. And ultimately, these are the ones most likely to convert into paying customers, and for whom you want to focus most o...
I am a self diagnosed online marketing and web analytics geek. When I am not working, I love to play basketball. And though even though in college, (at the University of Colorado in Boulder) I spent very little time geeking out, I did study both literature and sports psychology, two subjects that I remain passionate about.
Since moving back to Seattle, which is where I grew up, I have traded my prose pants and coaching cap in for a search marketing shirt. And I have enjoyed doing online marketing and web analytics ever since.