The Moz Blog

Ifish.net - An Amateur Webmaster's Dream Come True

I got an email from Jen, who runs Ifish.net, a community fishing website that's got a lot of great things going for it, including a loyal visitor base of almost 100,000 (she's got logs here). Jen was looking for advice on where to take her business, and I directed her to cre8, where she's ...

Fortune Interactive & SEM Logic

I'm fascinated by this SEM Logic software. It sounds like something we've been trying to get working for months: Research from the fields of Information ...

CPKs and Blog Serendipity

I am always running the logs on my websites seeing where the traffic is coming from. One of my websites has a blog and I post to that blog almost every day. My initial set-up for that blog had seven posts on the homepage and the archiving was done weekly. After I had been ...

Earl Grey's New Black Hat Paradise

My personal opinion is that you can't be an SEO "expert" without understanding the black hat side of the debate - the techniques that are working, those that don't, how money is made in that sector, and what the latest in hijacking, link spamming and automated content...

SEO on Efnet IRC

Internet Relay Chat (aka IRC) is an older form of communication on the internet. It's an online discussion system where you join "channels," which are basically chat rooms. I frequent several technical channels but recently have been spending some time in one centered around SEO. The topics of discus...

Alexa Web Index Available for Access

I was notified by Michael at Social Patterns that Alexa opened up their web index to automated tool builders and users of all k...

Recognizing my Team

One of the most dissapointing features to the Newsweek article is that, despite my pleading, the editors chose not to feature any of the photos which included Matt & Kat - nor were they mentioned in the article, prompting Matt's mom to exclaim - "you got robbed!" Indeed they did, and, although it's a small condol...

Matt Cutts Calls out Link Network

In a cruel, unambiguous and brutally honest fashion, Matt Cutts ripped apart a link network today. I'm feeling really bad for them. Here's what Matt said: My favorite overall moment was when a totally legit company (micromatic.com) stood up and asked fo...

Cozy vs. Sterile Design

JewelryJean at cre8asite is asking about choosing between "homespun" design that is more cozy vs. a more sterile, professional design. The crowd jumps in with some terrific advice and points to a few resources that help provide evidence for the argument that profe...

State of the Blogosphere

I've got one, you've probably got one, and so does nearly everyone we know. Blogs have been the "next big thing" for just about the last three years. Not surprisingly, the darling child of the 'new media' is still growing fast, and, according to info collected b...

Resource Shelf from Gary Price

How can one man blog so much? Acutally, the last time I hung out with Gary, he was whipping through data sources and maps and census information and a thousand sites I had barely enough time to jot down (despite spending almost an hour in front of his laptop in the San Jose speaker ready room). Gary is seriously obsessed with culling information and finding the latest in data aggregatio...

What Does a Slashdotting Look Like?

It's been 24 hours (almost exactly) since SEOmoz was linked to from Slashdot, and our current traffic is still exceptionally high. The "effect" itself was fairly mild, affecting us negatively for only 30 minutes or so while we removed database connections from the guide and upped the MySQL simultaneous connections limit (warning to others: the default is 100, so raising that in expectation of t...