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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, ...Level Up Your SEO Skills With Our Free Training
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Dealing with a Yahoo! Penalty
Yahoo! and I have always had an excellent relationship, which is why I was so perturbed to find that they banned a site I've been working with for several years - www.avatarfinancial.com. Last week, a ...
The SEO/SEM's Industries Growing Pains
Nacho at SEW Forums has posted a thread entitled "SEM Industry Biggest Growing Pains". In it, you'll find some of the best responses to any thread at any SEO forum in the last several week...
How Big is the World Wide Web
Antonio Gulli, who I've mentioned before at SEOmoz, has an online report on the size of the world wide web. It's a detailed description of the process and results of his inquiries into the indexable portion...
Understanding Stemming
Xan Porter has an excellent blog entry on the subject of stemming in search engine indices. The article points to a terrific trove of resources on stemming, how it is performed a...
What a Good Link Request E-Mail Looks Like
I got the e-mail I've copied below today. It's probably the best link request example I've ever gotten. Even after realizing that it was probably an auto-generated and mass-sent e-mail, I considered responding to let him know I appreciated the kind words. People are always asking how to phrase their link request letters, so here's a sample: ...