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SEOmoz Ranking Factors in 3rd Place
Moz News

SEOmoz Ranking Factors in 3rd Place

Our ranking factors article from several weeks ago is now in 3rd place at del.icio.us SEO tags for all time most popular. 671 folks have tagged it to date and we're closing in on Vaughn's Google Ranking Factors List, wh...
Smiley Faces Earn Their Keep
SEO Analytics

Smiley Faces Earn Their Keep

I am running blogger on a couple of my sites and decided to try an experiment as an attempt to increase the frequency of my posts being emailed. By default Blogger adds a little email icon at the bottom of each post. I kicked it up a notch by placing a smiley beside it with so...
What should Aaron Do?
SEO Events

What should Aaron Do?

Aaron Wall is struggling with the forces of the publishing world, who've re-nigged on their original agreement to let him maintain e-book publishing rights if they take his book to press. Aaron has a lot of positives and ne...
Generic SEO
Online Advertising

Ebay's It Campaign

If you haven't seen the TV ads for Ebay's new "it" campaign, they're worth a look. Ebay's playing with a new market here and their attempt to juxtapose post-modern (or post-post-modern) styling and panache with a humorous twist on all things Steve ...
Dan Thies has A Lot to Offer
SEO Events

Dan Thies has A Lot to Offer

I contracted out a keyword research report from Dan Thies yesterday afternoon (hard to believe they're only $99) and spoke a little on the phone. Dan has a lot of cool stuff coming up, including a limited engagement...
Marketing Inldustry
Digital PR

SERPs You Can't Understand

With this latest update from Google, we've been noticing some very odd things in the SERPs. Despite our best instincts and measurements of link quality, quantity and optimization, sites seem to be ranking in very strange orders. In the hopes of making greater sense of things, we wondered if you'd like to list your top search results that make no sense. No need to point out your site or those of...
SEO map
Moz News

SEO map

A recent thread in SEOChat brought up this extremely cool and fun tool - SEO Map. This is one wicked and excellent idea to utilize Google services to connect business and professionals to each other. If you are not listed, ...
Why MSN fails to conquer the world!
Mobile SEO

Why MSN fails to conquer the world!

One of my biggest rants with MSN Search has been their weighting for physical location of webserver. It is totally incredible and beyond any reasonable measures. Before you read any further, it is important you know some background information. My company, ...
Marketing Inldustry
Digital PR

Bad Information from SEO-News

Following Nick's lovely recommendations for community building, I'll be doing a bit of link baiting in this thread. Actually, that's a lie; I'm just ticked off about this article from SEO News' Rob Sullivan about a conference call he had with some Google employees. I'll just refute...

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