The Moz Blog

Up & Down @ SEOmoz

We are officially beginning the migration of this website to SEOmoz.org and will up and down over the next 2-3 days. Please forgive us if you can't access the site, the tools or other data. We'll be running at 100% next week with a brand, spanking new site and serious upgrades to the speed and ability of the tools, including the long awaited link-pricing tool. Thanks for your patience!...

Websites & Personal Reputation

The cult of personality on the Internet is somewhat lackluster. With the exception of the communities of obsessed fans of web-external celebrities, and a few odd bloggers, the Internet has yet to embrace the American cultural passion of identifying heroes and villains in all that exists. The wheels of commerce continue to turn, however, and it is becoming a increasing trend and even nec...

What is SEOmoz Planning?

SEOmoz is re-launching around the end of next week with a slightly updated look and feel, along with some other new items, which I've listed below: The SEO Tools will have 2 dedicated servers to reduce wait times A new link pricing tool is complete and await...

More Papers Written by Googlers

Google has a new, expanded list of papers and projects written by their workers online. The repository is growing quite large and for obvious reasons, Google isn't showing nearly all of them. Their ability to continue to recrui...

Wikipedia Editors Discuss SEO

Wikipedia has some fascinating reading on the topic of SEO, not in the body of their article on SEO, but rather in the discussion secti...

Your Favorite SEO Blog

I posted a poll on SEOChat asking users to vote on their favorite SEO blog. Purposely excluded was this particular blog, but lots of other great ones are on the list, including: ...

OpenRank & PageRank - Options for Moving Forward

As most SEOs in the business know, PageRank in Google's toolbar was unavailable over the Memorial Day weekend. This naturally led to many people asking questions about whether PR had dissapeared forever and if it had, whether a private-party solution could be c...

Amazon.com SEO Job Opening

If you're in Seattle and want to work for the biggest e-tailer around, Amazon.com is hiring right now for a "Manager, Search Engine Optimization". The required qualifications are actually somewh...

Live Q+A with Jim Lanzone of Ask Jeeves at Cre8asite

Jim Lanzone, the senior vice president of search properties for Ask Jeeves/Teoma, whom Mike Grehan previously interviewed with Apostolos Gerasoulis, is giving a live ...

Are Links Overrated?

Glengara posted at SEW asking whether Fantomaster's suggestion that on-page SEO was being ignored, to the detriment of rankings, was accurate. Several good responses illicited even more questions on the subject. I...

The SEOmoz Quiz

I whipped together something fun for the SEO community to do on their respective lunchbreaks today - the SEOmoz Quiz. It's fun, light-hearted and easy to cheat on (but don't do that 'cause you'll spoil all the fun). Anyone who gets a perfect s...

D'oh!

The twin issues of fairness and bias in search engines has come to the forefront this week with 2 threads. Homer's twitching eyes and nervous hands should give you an idea of how the SEs might feel addressing these sensitive issues. The first, ...