This is the story of SEOmoz, as I have heard it by sitting in the first row of a small but very attentive audience at the LUISS University in Rome, Italy. The storyteller is Rand Fishkin himself, the father and founder of an SEO company which has become synonym of high value tools and services, competence, and a natural inclination to share valuable information before asking something in return.
First of all, thanks to everyone who played along with our little April Fool's prank last week. I apologize if we made the tool seem a little too real. As penance, I thought I would offer a sneak peek at a new feature that is still in the advanced planning stages.I've heard from many SEOs that one of their more time-consuming tasks is the generation of spreadsheets to analyze why certain..
It's that time of the month... There's new data in Linkscape's index, which means Open Site Explorer, Moz's SEO Toolbar, our API and many of our other tools all have new links and metrics. Here are the stats for index 36:...
I'm pleased to announce SEOmoz's latest tool, FutureRank, is now available in beta and is free by anyone for the the next 48 hours (afterward it'll be PRO only). FutureRank attempts to predict what might seem impossible: how your pages will rank next week, next month and next year. Before you dive in and try this exciting tool yourself, it's important you understand how it works, and it's limitations.
In 2010, SEOmoz's software business grew from 4K - 7K subscribers and $3.1mm - $5.7mm in revenue (more transparency on details coming soon). Our customers have been loving our products (our web app now supports nearly 30K campaigns) and our data (over 250 companies use our API), but we're nowhere near satisfied. We want to build more, faster and that's why to...
Disclaimer: This post has absolutely nothing to do with SEO or even online marketing. You've been warned. Please keep reading to see the awesomeness that is your new profile. *happy dance* :) Before I jump into the new profiles and what's so great about them. Let's take a look back, a look at the profiles of yesteryear. Back in the day when the profile ...
Last week, in the midst of an extremely busy day, the team at SEOmoz huddled around a bowl of green jelly beans to share something even more magical than tiny green candy - our numbers. We recently passed 7,500 PRO members and January was our biggest traffic month ever, with nearly 1 million visits to SEOmoz + Open Site Explorer. January has been good to us, so it's time we return the favor. That's why, starting today, we're making SEOmoz PRO membership 100% FREE to try for the first 30 days.
Every now and then it's important to take a good look at your community, see where you stand, remember where you've been and take a look at where you're going. Today I wanted to take the time to do just that. Over the next month-ish we have a number of changes and additions happening to the SEOmoz Community that I wanted to let everyone know about. I also thought it would be fun to take a look at our community from a numbers perspective.
You might have noticed that SEOmoz has been heating up with some spiffy new changes of late. Our engineering and product teams are in a groove, and that means cool new stuff every 2-3 weeks. Last night, some really slick new features rolled out and today, Linkscape's updated too (our last one was only 21 days ago - meaning data is awesomely fresh). First - the really fun part. Our...
There's no doubt that mobile and, by extension, local search is hot. Technology pundits have been declaring every year since 2005 "The Year of Mobile" - that magical moment when everyone suddenly starts using their mobile device for more than just playing games, texting, calling friends, checking email, downloading/using apps and occasionally browsing the web and... I don't know... br...
Today is my last day at SEOmoz. I have been here for about three and half years and it really has been one the most important experiences of my life. I met fascinating people, traveled the world, ...
Earlier this month we gave you the top SEOmoz posts from 2010 based on the total number of thumbs up, traffic, backlinks and tweets. But that wasn't enough, and the community asked for more! You wanted to see the posts with the most comments and the comments with the most thumbs up (as I screwed that list up in the last post). So I decided to even take it one step further and see which community members commented the most in 2010 also.
Over the past few months our dev and product teams have been busy little bees working on some pretty exciting new enhancements and upgrades to the web app. Since it's the holiday season... we might even liken them to Santa's little elves building toys for all the good little SEOs around the world.[photo]We've been rolling out quite a few updates each week. Some you've probably not...
I've recently been thinking more about some ranking signals that in the past, I dismissed (perhaps foolishly). Some of these the engines have previously disavowed, while others don't get the attention or discussion they potentially deserve. My list includes:Mentions of a domain / brand name - particularly in sources that the engine has classified as "news."...