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We're launching a new section for our premium members this morning: SEOmoz Q&A. This is a place where premium members can ask the SEOmoz staff SEO related questions and receive tips, advice, or just get pointed in the right direction. It works a bit like a trouble ticket system: discussions are opened, closed, rated, and eventual...
This post has been a long time coming - there's a definite need to address internal duplicate content issues in an intelligent, simple, illustrated manner. I'm hoping that you'll be able to show this to the boss (or, more likely, the engineering team) and help them achieve that critical "AHA!" moment required for all true progressive changes. Fundamentally at issue is the crea...
Where were you on the night of June 5th, 2007? This time around, Rand talks with Epiar's Ken Jurina, one of the sharpest minds and snappiest dressers in all of search. They discuss Epiar's new software and the business model that's evolving from it. Listen up, people, the Canadians are taking over. This installment of The SMX Diaries may look a little more...
Back so soon? Oh Yeah! The SMX Diaries just keep on comin'. In Volume II, Rand interviews Neil Patel about the rise and fall of Digg and how to work around their famous hatred of SEOs and other marketers. There's more where this came from so keep an eye out. I'll try and get one more up today and then, tomorrow, we'll have a super-sized, two-part installment of ...
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The first video in The SMX Diaries, Rand interviews Michael Gray (aka Graywolf) about Google, Webmaster Central and the first inaugural SMX. Stay tuned folks, the action and adventure that is The SMX Diaries will continue! ...
Usually, I don't like to post unsubstantiated rumors because the potential for trouble is high and it's often not worthwhile. However, this time I'm posting with the express goal of stopping the situation from becoming a reality (or at least requesting a re-think). Here's the deal... Today at the SMX conference, two sources that I trust told me independently that last week, the folk...
I'm more than a little skeptical of mainstream media articles about the search engines. With so many terrible experiences - inaccuracy, bias, shallow information, agenda-based reporting - it's easy to see why. However, today I'm thrilled to see an article from Saul Hansel in the NY Times that's not only impeccably well-written, but informative to even those of in most deeply inside the search i...
Rand's back from China and makes his triumphant return to Whiteboard Friday. This week, he discussed the state of search in Asia, including who the major players are and how things are different from North American and European search. For more details about the state of search in Asia, take a look at Rand's SES China Art...
Danny Sullivan's long-awaited and much anticipated Search Marketing Expo conference kicks off next week with SMX Advanced in Seattle. Matt, Scott, Jeff, and Gillian all have Expo Passes, while Jane and I will be covering the conference for our blog and Rand will be speaking on the "SEO, Meet SMM" panel w...
It's no mystery that people in the SEO world have strong feelings about cloaking. The very mention of an off-white hat tactic in one of my YouMOZ posts earned me multiple thumbs down and accusations of cloaking. One comment in particular interested me, though: someone suggested that they consider cloaking to be virtually any tactic that treats search engines differently from end-users. As...
Search Engine Strategies China was held in the beautiful resort town of Xiamen on May 24 - 25. KEYNOTEYvonne Chang, China Yahoo and Alibaba Vice President, was interviewed by Chris Sherman and Inway Ni for the Keynote address. Mr. Ni asked Ms. Chang to search for her name on Yahoo and she noted his blog was ranked...
Tonight I'm back from Hong Kong and China, sitting at my computer in lovely, cool, wonderfully-clean-tap-water-spouting Seattle. There's a lot to come on Chinese search marketing from myself, Si and David Temple (who generously offered coverage of the conference for the blog), but, in the meantime, I know we need to get back to basics here at SEOmoz...
As promised, I'm putting up my presentations from SES Xiamen 2007. There's so much to share about China that it's nearly impossible to put it into a blog post and thus, when I return home, I'll be writing a full article on SEOmoz about my experiences, the Chinese search market and what I ate (abalone, shark fin soup, camel, turtle, duck tongue, scorpions, starfish, jellyfish and many more)....
Patrick Sexton (aka feedthebot) over at SEOish contacted a few big names in the search marketing industry and asked: "What would you do if you only had 100 dollars to market your website?" This excellent read includes responses from Aaron Wall, Andy Beal, Andy Hagans, Kid Disco, Lee Odden, Tod...