Moz News

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...

OpenRank & PageRank - Options for Moving Forward

As most SEOs in the business know, PageRank in Google's toolbar was unavailable over the Memorial Day weekend. This naturally led to many people asking questions about whether PR had dissapeared forever and if it had, whether a private-party solution could be c...

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...

Integration of Craigslist & Google Maps

Craigslist's directory of real estate for rent and sale has long been the very best the Internet has to offer for those searching for housing in metropolitan areas. Now, Paul Rademacher has combined Craigslist's RSS...

Gerunding & the Progression of Language

Today's International Herald Tribune has an article on the bastardization of English words into strange pseudo-related meanings in other languages. The piece, Meanwhile: The world is Englishing, den...

NetDisaster

Paralleling the topic of yesterday's "humor as link-building" subject, today I've stumbled across a site called NetDisaster that will take a given URL and turn the page into a private battlefield for Martians, meteors and other untimely disasters....

Content Sourcing with Creative Commons

A great source for content, especially images & tools is the Creative Commons licensing website. The search system enables you to find the content you're seeking and also provides a great outlet for developers looki...

SWOOP - An Ontology Browser

What is an ontology? In case you're disinclined to follow the link, I've quoted Wikipedia's excellent article on the subject: In computer science, an ontology...

Scientific American Covers the World of Search

An excellent, in-depth article from the Scientific American was published earlier this week. The article goes deep inside the search industry and discusses many of the cutting edge technologies and ideas that are propelling the growth and innovatio...

Folksonomies

An impressive new idea from the world of librarians, cataloguers and other reference technicians called Folksonomies has taken root in the world of web search. This new technology exploits users' time to classify and meta-label the web through browsing. The promise of this new categorization syte...