This was pretty surprising to see:
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Please be advised that, at 12:00 PM PDT today, September 2, 2010, we were notified that effective immediately, Visa International has suspended our banking partner's (St. Kitts Nevis Anguilla National Bank) ePassporte Visa program. The ePassporte e-Wallet program continues to be up ...
Last week at our annual mozinar, Ben Hendrickson gave a talk on a unique methodology for improving SEO. The reception was overwhelming - I've never previously been part of a professional event where thunderous applause broke out not once but multiple times in the midst of a...
This is a series of screen caps and free instruction on getting google to visit your website more often.
A link to the blog post about Google Home Pages that explains the reasoning behind the technique, how to test the results, and why you'd want to use this technique is included.
Today, I want to share two pieces of advice that are particularly useful to certain types of business - and will be exceptionally quick to implement. I've also created a free download that might help some people implement one of these ideas even more quickly.
About two years ago, I made a recommendation&nbs...
This post was originally in YOUmoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author's views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc.
In this week's Whiteboard Friday Rand Fishkin clues you in on four link building tactics that you likely haven't heard about. Given the importance of link building to SEO, this video should prove to be worth its (virtual) weight in gold. (I mean that in the best possible way ;-p)
If you do not find out what people want, or plunge blindly forward and create a products on a whim, you could end up with a dead duck product ( a product that doesn't make any money and yes, I've had a few).
You then not only have wasted your time and money but it can put you right off the entire entrepreneurial activity of making mone...
it’s time for an update on my 30 day challenges. here’s what i’ve done the last few months:
june: i didn’t respond to email after 10 p.m. and i read the new testament of the bible. both were interesting in different ways. it turns out that 10 p.m. is a pretty good time for me to [...]
It's been a wild few weeks at the mozplex. Today wrapped up the amazing mozinar with our half-day tools training just in time to launch the new version of SEOmoz. Should we slow down this crazy pace? Nah.
If you're feeling a sense of deja vu, don't worry; it's perfectly normal. We're the same old moz, but with ...
This post was originally in YOUmoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author's views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc.
This post was originally in YOUmoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author's views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc.
So here is the deal: Traditional websites frequently rank in mobile search results – especially if you are searching from a SmartPhone. What you may not realize is that the converse is also true – mobile pages can rank well in traditional search. This is quite an interesting phenomenon, and something t...
We all love backlinks. We all love visualisation. Boom! Let's mash those two things together. In this post I've collected a bunch of different techniques for visualising your link data. Some of these are useful for analysis, some are useful for management and some are useful for keeping
Allison Randall from O’Reilly spoke about Parrot at last week’s San Francisco PHP meetup. Parrot is a pretty interesting project, whose goal is to build a unified virtual machine for scripting languages.
Wait, another virtual machine? Is there a world shortage of virtual machines, not satisfied by .NET and Java? Well, yeah. The current lifecycle [...]
Today I'm happy to announce that we've just updated Linkscape's web index (which also powers Open Site Explorer and the metrics via the mozBar) with fresh link data. You should see some bright shiny links we've found from late July to early August in this index (e.g. our...
In this week's Whiteboard Friday, Rand Fishkin explains how to turn boring product pages into conversion-worthy product selling machines. These tips are topical (with the holiday season coming up), useful and in most cases, reletively easy to implement.
Last week I covered SES San Francisco for SEOmoz. Every time I attend a conference, I try to go to sessions that will have information I can bring back to the community. Sometimes I look for sessions that aim to answer questions we see a lot in Q &...
When I am thinking about mobile SEO, I pay specific attention to the order of the results and the inclusion of Universal Results. In their nature, Universal results are infinitely more clickable, as we know from traditional SEO. But in the mobile world, Universal Results are the fun results – because they ar...
"Don’t think. Just walk." — a fellow hiker.
last week i returned from climbing mt. kilimanjaro in tanzania, africa. i’ll start with the bottom line: i made it to the top!
that’s three of us at sunrise on the sixth day. we took the machame route, which takes seven days. in theory, you could march [...]
if you’re on linux (say ubuntu 10.04, also known as lucid lynx), you can switch between the developer (dev) and beta channels of chrome like this:
switch from beta to dev:
sudo apt-get install google-chrome-unstable
switch from dev to beta:
sudo apt-get install google-chrome-beta
that’s easier for me than going back for the .deb file and doing something with it.
also, [...]
In this week's Whiteboard Friday, Danny Dover tries to answer some of the hard questions in SEO. These include; "If you are such a good SEO, why don't you rank number one for the keyword, SEO?" and "How can you provide advice on SEO if you don't work for a search engine?". The answers t...
There's no such thing as a free link. Whether it was the time taken to craft that blog post, the cash used to film that viral video, or even just the opportunity cost of thinking about how to build links, there is an investment involved. For my first post here at SEOmoz, I want to talk about how a small busines...
For the past few years, I've given numerous presentations introducing SEO to new audiences of marketers, engineers and executives. With the end of SEOmoz's consulting business this past January and the completion of our final contract obligations this Spring, I thought it would be wise to share the 190+ page deck...
Some of you know that I spend a lot of time behind the scenes here on Pro Q&A. One of the challenges of Q&A is that we often have to tackle complex problems in a very short amount of time – we might have 10-15 minutes to solve an issue like "Why isn't my page showing up on Google?" with no a...
For a long time, if you asked me about spamming the search engines, whether with hardcore black hat tactics or merely gray hat link acquisition, I'd say that in the long run, neither was the right move. Building a great site and a great brand through hard work, white hat links, solid content and marketing strategies h...
The team at SEOmoz has been hard at work this week, smoothing out a lot of the initial bumps we've seen with our beta launch of the new web app. We anticipated the app would be popular, but I don't think any of us were prepared for just how many keywords needed rank ...
Following on from my debut SEOmoz blog post on How to Get Links in Tough Industries, I wanted to go into a bit more detail about the processes you can use to find people who are likely to link to you. Using the right processes ...
Update: Thank you everyone for your patience with the video issues. It looks like our video host's CDN accidentally cached a bad request. Everything should be working now! Party on!
In this week's Whiteboard Friday I talk about pitching SEO to potential clients and employers. This po...
If you've been using SEOmoz's tools for a while, you've likely run across the same challenge we have -- the data rocks, but you have to run a separate tool and report for each aspect of your SEO. That's why, for the past year, we've been building a new platform to house all of the features and functionality of the SEO...
This week I pretty much have two things on my mind: beta launch and conferences. Since Rand will be covering the beta launch later today (wheeeeee) I thought I'd focus on the conferences. Along with preparing for our own PRO Seminar later this month, we've been disc...
I've had the chance to talk to lots of folks who are just starting out building new web businesses, many of them for the first time and a few with some experience under their belt. What worries me is that a lot of these new businesses are reversing the SEO order of operations; making it 100X more difficult to succeed ...
So you want to get links, but don’t know how to start creating linkable content? Well, don't worry; I'm going to take you through my process for creating awesome linkbait.
Like many overly-connected web junkies, I find myself increasingly overwhelmed by information, resources and news. Sorting the signal from the noise is essential to staying sane, but missing an important development can be costly. To balance this conflict, I've recently re-arranged my daily reading habits (which ...
This week on Whiteboard Friday we pull a secret out of the SEO secrets vault. This handy strategy helps you take advantage of the specific types of results that Google chooses for people and company based searches and helps you dominate your brand search engine result page.
This past weekend I finally updated my VideoGames app to the latest Facebook API. VideoGames was written during the original platform hackathon a few days before Facebook platform launch two years ago. Thanks to everybody who stuck around while the app was inoperable, and to those who found deleting the app just too onerous of [...]
Earlier this year, jtkaczuk wrote a YOUmoz post about “Using Twitter as a Sitemap”. After reading it I began to think about the power of Twitter and if using Twitter more can ...
It's officially August, and that means that the SEOmoz PRO Seminar is less than a month away! For a group of people so dedicated to the pursuit of living and working online, it's amazing how important conferences are to the search marketing community (and to your c...
i’m leaving tuesday to try to climb mount kilimanjaro. if you want to show your support, please donate at charity:water. anyone who wants to give is welcome.
mt. kilimanjaro is the highest mountain in africa, at 19,340 feet (5895 meters). it’s hard to climb kilimanjaro, mainly because of the altitude. i’ll be completely without [...]
I know that SEOmoz blog readers are an internet-savvy crowd, so many of you are probably familiar with the 'browser history sniffing' techniques that exist. (Bear with me, we'll get to internet marketing advice in a moment.)
This week on Whiteboard Friday, Rand Fishkin describes the methods he recommends for outsourcing content creation. Content is extremely important for SEO and users alike so these best practices are important for those of us without the luxury of an in-house staff of copywriters.
We have a lot of changes going on at SEOmoz (feel free to get excited, we sure are!) and with all of these changes to the site comes the need to focus on tracking. Internally we have spent the last few months redirecting our attention to not only the best practices regarding analytics and data mining, but really...