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Bloggers and Lawsuits and Pagejacking, Oh My!

The story as it stands so far... One of the things I've done in the past couple of years is to scrape the search engines for content. Once I get that content, I sometimes tweak it, but invariably it ends up on my network of sites to feed the search engines more of what they're looking for. (Ok, maybe that's a stretch but they DO crawl and index my sites :)) Occasiona...

Official Welcome to Jeff Pollard

Jeff Pollard, SEOmoz's newest employee and a fantastically talented web developer hasn't had a formal welcome yet on the blog - until now. Jeff will be helping us scrape, spam, hack and reverse engineer... uhhh, I mean build high quality, functional, usable websites and some new tools. He also adds to the number of bearded employees at SEOmoz, which is always a positive...

And Then There Were Six...

SEOmoz and Kat Ortland, who's been with us nearly a year, are parting ways today - Kat's off to pursue bigger and bolder ventures in the world of journalism and we wish her well. Her work with us, particularly on the Web2.0 Awards project helped to make her a star and we're looking forward to seeing great things from her career in the future. ...

New Treaty Makes UK laws apply to US

So you're familiar with the US laws and think that you're safe because you're not breaking them? It's time to rethink that notion because of a treaty that the US signed up for. From the ArsTechnica article: According to the EFF, "The treaty requires th...

Monday Morning Roundup

After a week of being online less than an hour a day, there's a lot of news worthy of coverage around the industry. Let's take it from the top: I get lots of questions asking - "how do I know if my site is news-worthy or link-worthy." The Time.com List of 50 Coolest Websites is a great place to get ide...

How the Internet Saved TV Show Veronica Mars

I'm back in Seattle and overwhelmed with email, new contacts and the need to post. But, while I collect my thoughts, I've asked Mystery Guest (yes, that Mystery Guest) to author a post on the subject of how and a viral campaign saved the TV program Veronica Mars. Rand, sadly, is overestimating how technical and ...

Ten Ways to Take a Break from Tedious SEO Work

I thought I'd hop on the "Top 10" bandwagon and give you my very own Top 10 list. Having researched some keywords for one of our clients for the past three days, I find myself constantly feeling the urge to take mental breaks for fear of being driven insane by monotonous data entry; thus, I present my Ten Ways to Take a Break from Tedious SEO Work: Peer over yo...

All the Things I Should Have Linked To

Once again, I've fallen behind the times in blogging and haven't given proper respect to more than a few sites, pages and people who deserve it. Thus, this token attempt at absolution from the angry gods of the blogosphere: Todd Malicoat went line by line through that "revealed" Google ranking code and c...

Keyword Difficulty Tool Upgrade

Matt's been hard at work this week, upgrading SEOmoz's KW Difficulty Tool. It's now faster, more accurate and comes with spiffier graphics. In honor, I thought it would be valuable to write a post on how to read this data: ...

A glimpse inside the head of 2K

Because of being extremely busy at the moment, I'm going to make this post short and sweet. Below are some links that allow to see what I consider the best /most important reads during the past week: ClickZ has an interesting article about AJAX and web analytics. This is an ...

The Great Curse of Insomnia

It's 7:45pm in Seattle and 3:45am here in London. Why am I up? The same reason I was up last night at this time, and, for that matter, the night before that. My body can't seem to adjust to Greenwich Mean Time. Of course, I've been far too busy to sleep during the day, which leaves me wondering how long a 26-year old male can actually go without any significant quantity of shut-eye. Luc...

Don't Count on Search Traffic in Your Ten Year Plan

I see powerful things in Digg, Slashdot, Stumbleupon, Delicious, Wikipedia, forums of all types, and other sites that attract people because of a common interest or activity. These sites are "communities" of visitors or authors. These sites drive massive traffic in a short blast or massive traffic that is cumulative over time.My guess is that these highly popular ...