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Kids, Plug Your Ears! I Am Going to Talk About SEO P_rn!
Okay . . . so I did a round of interviews this week with fairly decent success (though, if I am still unemployed in a month then I guess it wasn’t successful after all, lol). Who did I meet with? Sorry, not divulging that info because frankly most readers of this blog are outstanding SEOs and could turn into my competition for the positions. Note: For the handful that do kn...
A Special Thanks from SEOmoz
Without doubt, 2007 was our best year ever, and it's all your fault! Thanks so much to all our members, readers and contributors, and everyone in the Internet Marketing field. Without you, we'd be a sad, surly bunch....
SEOmoz's Stats for 2007
Following in Danny's footsteps over at SELand, I'm offering up SEOmoz's website stats for 2007. Enjoy! Visits January - 202,622 February - 309,924 March - 283,417 April - 280,284 ...
The Readiness Is All (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace 2008)
When I was a senior in high school, I was in AP English. My teacher, Mr. Hunt, was a kind but eccentric guy. He loved Shakespeare and made sure we spent plenty of time studying the Bard. In the spring, we studied Hamlet. After reading the play and discussing it in class, we were given the assignment of writing a paper about it. Mr. Hunt saw Hamlet as a one giant meta...
Apparently the Government Hates SEOs Too
I just came across this line item in the 2008 federal budget. How many of ya'll plan on closing up shop now? ...
Changing User Agents with Firefox
In the last Whiteboard Friday (12/20/07) Rand talked with Stephan Spencer on the subject of conditional 301 redirects using user agent detection. I thought it might be useful to briefly cover how easy it is to set up Firefox to use a non-default user agent (like Yahoo, Google etc) for testing and development...
The Launch of Private Messaging on SEOmoz
Today I'm pleased to announce the release of Private Messaging here at SEOmoz. Starting now, you'll be able to private message other users using the sexy "Private Message This User" butto...
50 Perfect Gifts for Webophiles, Bloggers, & Internet Marketers
With Cyber Monday just wrapping up, it's time to start for all of us procrastinators to get to work finding the perfect gifts for the geeks in our lives. Luckily, Mystery Guest and I have been doing some browsing around this year, and figured we'd share our favorites from around the web. Frankly, I've been really disappointed with the standard geek gift guides from places like Engadget and Amazon, ...
SEOmoz's Venture Capital Deal Closes + Financials for Jan-Nov 2007
Today marks the completion of our first ever external funding - $1.1million (sorry, no Shoemoney shot here). I wrote about this move twice before, asking in August for your feedback on whether to take venture capital and in September about ...
Help Us Brainstorm Fun Job Titles
Hello, devoted Mozbers out there (Moz + Members). We're currently in the process of redesigning our business cards, and we want some amusing, fun, not at all corporate or stuffy-sounding job titles. Rand, Gillian, and the programmers are all pretty set with their creative titles, but Scott, Jane, Sarah, the future admin, and I all need your help. We need suggestions for awesomely bodacious and rad...