The Moz Blog

Ask Jeeves Does Gift Search

Ask Jeeves noted on their blog today that they've got a new gift search service and it's awesome. It's so much fun to play around with all the different personality types and ages and other demographics to see what they'...

Neuromarketing

Rather than ask samples of the population to watch ads and write their responses down, neuromarketing uses MRI scans to identify what types of brain activity correspond to different ad messages and p...

Bumvertising

This 22 year-old econ major from my alma mater has been using the local indigent population to score one of the most creative link building ideas I've seen in years. And, to top it off, I can actually see the guys holding his poker signs from my office window. Definitely worth a look and a read....

Cre8asite's Website Hospital

The various webmaster and SEO/M forums on the web all offer their own versions of a peer review for member websites, but no one does as good a job as Cre8asite forums with their ...

A Non-SEO View of How to Get Blogged

TechCrunch has a post from last Friday - Top Ten Things You Can Do To Get Blogged - that explains carefully and simply how the company chooses Web 2.0 companies to be profiled or written about on their site. While this a...

Dirty Tricks at the DMOZ

I watched a nasty trick take effect at the DMOZ today. Apparently, unscrupulous editors have been getting more and more black hat about using particularly clever techniques to foil their competitors who are listed at the directory. This particular technique came to me via an online acquaintance whose name I promised not to mention. This editor's technique, as he controls some real estat...

Digging up Dirty DNS Deeds

SamSpade.org has a fantastic collection of tools for digging up everything from falsified IP addresses to browsing the web anonymously to checking traceroutes, running whois and reverse lookups and much more. The site's super-clean, minimalis...

Katrina & the SEO World

Hurricane Katrina has taken a devastating toll on the gulf states of the US and the people who lived there. The SEO world has responded with a variety of donations and contributions, as well as threads, posts and information relating to the subject. DazzlinDo...

Great Books for Webmasters

Don't think that everything about SEO and building websites can be found on the web. Over the past two years I have read many books about these same subjects that were printed on paper. So if paper books are off your radar screen these days here the BEST three from my long reading...

A Little Bit Naughty

Google's SafeSearch feature doesnt' strongly affect most of us in the non-adult industry, but I came across a fun little tool yesterday that I thought was worth mentioning. Monzy's UnSafe Search is a play on Google's adult filtering and conducts a search at Google with SafeSearch on and off, then filters out those results that...

Librarian's Directory

The two groups most commonly associated by search engines as being interested in things like link data and information retrieval technology, outside of their own engineers, are librarians & SEOs. The first group are typically lauded while the second receives both internal and external...

Mr. Cutts... Your Pants are on Fire

Matt Cutts is one of the friendliest, most fun people to be around at an SES conference. But, like all of us, he's not infalliable and is prone to make mistakes once in a while. Far be it from me to criticize him, however, as I too have notorious errors of judgement ...