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Our Day with Andy Beal
Andy Beal spent the day with SEOmoz, consulting with us on how to grow our business, take advantage of our strengths and shore up areas of weakness. Andy's experience with WebSourced, a giant firm in the field and Fortune Interactive, a mid-size player, has given him the ability to take a close look at a firm in SEO and immediately identify strategi...
SEOmoz Has a Pen Pal!
Snail mail is dead, right? Apparently not! Recently SEOmoz received a written letter from a well-meaning entrepreneur at a federal correctional institution, asking us if we could send him any information about SEOmoz's services. ...
Rand's on Video
I was recently interviewed on video (in a t-shirt) at our offices here in Seattle by Payscale.com for their Salary Stories blog. I'm not sure if I'll ever be fully comfortable with how I look on video, but it might be something to experiment with. ...
Entry #1: Generating Our Stuff on Their Space
User generated content seems to be a pendulum-swing against the 1980s and ‘90s-style elitism that had all aspects of the media, including the web, tucked away in the firm grasp of a small, skilled group. Now, the opposite is true: In no other public way can the regular folks you see promoting themselves on Bebo or dishing out ...
Entry #2: Put on Your Asbestos Pants - Trailfire Bookmark Service Reviewed
Seattle Internet startup Trailfire is attempting to blaze a path through the web bookmarking community and straight into your disorganized life. Besides a misleading appeal to pyromaniacs, the service offers some features that are unique, straightforward to use, and potentially very advantageous. Trailfire is essentially a bookmark plug-in for yo...Level Up Your SEO Skills With Our Free Training
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Entry #4: Are the 'Digg 100' the New Rupert Murdoch?
The user-submitted, Web 2.0 world is, in theory, built upon the idea of a democratic, free-flow of news and ideas: free of the framing, restraint and editorial control of the mainstream media. Unfortunately, much has been made recently of the not-so-egalitarian power structure that exists on bookmarking sites such as Reddit and, particularly, Digg.With an estimated ...
Entry #6: User-Generated Content, aka Free Speech
"This site is blocked because its content may be offensive to the political, moral, or religious values of the United Arab Emirates."Last year, two talented young Americans left their home in Seattle for a one-year stint in Dubai at a TV startup. They were homesick and hurtling from the culture shock, both on the street and in the workplace. Hungry to reconnect and shivering ...
How You Can Help SEOmoz Hire
After more than 100 resumes, 20 interviews (including a few grueling ones), we've narrowed down our candidates to 5 standouts. This diverse group will be asked to write a blog entry over the weekend and submit them to us on Monday morning, at which point, we'll let you vote on which blog entry you like best. The entries will be anonymized, but they're all on a similar topic (though I expect to ...
Mystery Guest Clues You Into Pop Culture
This morning, Mystery Guest made an appearance in Cranium's new online version of their Pop 5 Game. It's a take on guessing pop culture references based on visual clues and the web team has done a great job making it into a Flash game. ...
Why I Love Working for SEOmoz
Today I'm going to sappify (yes, I just made up a word. Deal with it!) this blog. Why? Well, first of all I'm currently the only female SEOmoz blogger, and even though I tend to fall more on the tomboy side, I can still girly it up a bit from time to time. Secondly, work has been going really well for me lately, which caused me to reflect on exactly why I'm so happy with how things are going. Beho...