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Mystery Guest recently posted the The SEO's Guide to Beginners where she points out that a lot of what SEOs talk about makes absolutely no sense to anyone that is not an SEO. Our friends, family and clients often glaze over when we explain ourselves. Based on Mystery Gues...
(Prelude from Rand: The following comes from the lovely, talented Mystery Guest, who felt that we in the SEO industry needed, nay had earned a bit of her outsider's perspective. Thanks, kiddo - you rock.)A lot of people are under the erroneous impression that I am not only part of the SEO industry, but that I have an extensive understanding of SEO, in general.This is woefully ...
Hey, remember SMX Advanced in Seattle? Think back to a couple weeks ago. Danny Sullivan threw a conference in the Emerald City, some SEOs attended, it was a huge success...any of this ringing a bell to you? Well, if two certain slacker SEOs didn't have 8,000 simultaneous tasks to work on and actually published this article right after the conference ended, you'd be more excited about reading it. O...
Brian Clark's copyblogger blog is always packed full of useful information. And one of his best ever posts was his Five Grammatical Errors That Make You Look Dumb. He lists them as:Your vs. You'reIt's vs. ItsThere vs. TheirAffect vs. Effect...
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Hey Gang, In our last Rand-free week of Whiteboard Friday, we've got Matt & Rebecca giving you the lowdown on our new Q&A feature we recently added to Premium Membership. They'll walk you briefly through just a couple of the 50+ specific questions we've received from our members, the answers to all of which are available in our Q&A Knowledge Base. ...
bounty fishing serious, want feedback, want to provide the best experience, use "fishing tournament" as anchor text...
It feels cruel to give the search engineers at Yahoo!, Google, MSN & Ask more work, but I know that sometimes they might not have the best project tracking or distribution software, so I figured I'd be kind and make a list of items that need attention here in the blog, and they can refer to my post when they're wondering what to do with all their free time. ...
After SMX, training Frenchies, SES Toronto, and getting sick, I'm back in the office attempting to tackle a mountain of tasks (I've never empathized with Rand more than I do right now). Jane and I will soon publish the so-late-it's-just-ridiculous coverage of SM, but for now I want to talk about SES Toronto and the Canadian Search Landscape session. This session was pretty rife with...
Okay, okay, we had some fun last week with the SMX Party Video, but now it's back to business...well, as much as a Whiteboard Friday featuring Iron Maiden's The Wicker Man as the soundtrack can be considered business.
Rock n' Roll aside, Matt's back in SEOmoz Whiteboard Studios this week...
Last week, I received some very friendly correspondence from the Search Engine Strategies and Incisive Media organizations about my irresponsible post on speaker exclusivity. I knew that I had done wrong, and to make amends, I asked if Kevin Ryan, who was ...
I've just put the finishing touches on a new tool that I think is a killer addition to our current arsenal of SEO tools. It's basically a tricked-out version of the "Where's it Rank?" PHP script that I of...
It all began with a judgmental cabbie and a striptease. To be fair, I'm not really from Kansas like I told that cabbie. [I was born there, I live and work about 3 minutes from the state line, but really, it was just easier to tell people I was from Kansas because most people don't know that most of Kansas City is in Missouri. Plus, I was trying to emphasize the flatness--Kansas is way...
Last week, I interviewed the head of Google's spam team, Matt Cutts, about a lot of different issues. One of the most intriguing to webmasters appears to have been the discussion in the 2nd video (around 6:00) where we go into a chat about the real estate industry online, where thousands of websites have recently lost rankings due to participation in egregious manipulation through reciprocal li...
Tuesday night, following the close of the inaugural SMX here in Seattle, SEOmoz threw a party for our Premium Members, Friends and Colleagues. Our Members got to bowl, play pool, mingle and kick back a few drinks with some of the biggest names in Search including Tim Mayer, Matt Cutts, Greg Boser, Bruce Clay, Todd Malicoat, Jim Boykin, Todd Friesen, and many more, including the one-and-only ...