Today I have two very big announcements. First, SEOmoz is exiting the consulting business to focus exclusively on our software model. And, second, we have an expanded partnership with Distilled, who'll be taking over many of our consulting clients and opening offices here in Seattle. I'm going to talk briefly about both of these below, then add detail wi...
The launch of Open Site Explorer last week opens up a lot of link data, filters, and anchor text to a much wider audience than we've ever had before. In that same vein, today we're announcing our new and improved SEOmoz Free API. Any registered (it's free) SEOmoz member ...
A reaction to recent accusations in the SEO industry that awards, etc. are only going to people's friends, and how this topic has implications for all of our social interactions.
Last week we unveiled our newest toy, Open Site Explorer, to the world and the response was phenomenal. Now we want to take some time and really show everyone just what this powerful link analysis tool is capable of and answer your questions, so we're hosting not one, but two FREE Webinars this week! ...
For the past 15 months, we've been working hard to improve Linkscape, our index of the WWW and the Linkscape tool showing metrics about link data. Today, we're releasing an entirely new platform for Linkscape's index with more data accessible than ever before. And, for the next 48 hours, full functionality is available entirely for free: ...
A couple of weeks ago I published a post titled "Tests Show PageRank Sculpting with Nofollow Still Works" where I argued that a test that I had run showed that nofollow was a legitimate means for sculpting PageRank. When I originally wrote and posted the blog entry, I full-heart...
In this post, my goal is to walk you through the process we used, the feedback we received and the final results and decisions. Fundraising is a demanding, lengthy, emotionally charged process and something that challenged me personally more so than any other single part of my life in the last 5 years. I hope that by sharing my experience I can help others who start down this road and give you an idea of what to expect. The more knowledge you have, the less fear can hold you up; that’s what this post is here to accomplish.
What a year! From traveling to software development, saying goodbye to old friends and growing the team with new ones, we've had a tremendously exciting 12 months at SEOmoz. To celebrate, next week, on Wednesday, January 6th 2010, we'll be hosting an informal meetup at the Elysian Brewery on Capitol Hill in Seattle, WA. Everyone from...
As SEOmoz has matured as a company, our SEO team has shifted away from treating SEO purely as an art and more toward treating it as a science. There is certainly the necessity for both perspectives but I beleive we are now much more centered. As a result of this shift, we have been running more tests and analyzing more data. Before I get into the topic of our latest test resul...
Earlier this month, Google launched personalized results by default for all users. SEOs should have already read Danny Sullivan's analysis of the shift (which is quite excellent) and I also suggest checking out ...
Disclaimer: This article consists of our favorite articles of the past year and does not have actionable SEO techniques. Please read on if you're interested in knowing more about us, and what we like! This week I've been personally invested in Gwen Bell's The Best of 2009 Blog Challenge aka #best09. It's only been a few days but I've enjoyed reading through some of the blog...
As we rapidly approach the end of 2009 and opening of 2010, we've got a much anticipated index update ready to roll out gang. Say it with me "twenty-ten". Oh yeah, I'm so gonna get a flying car and a cyberpunk android :) ...Ahem. I thought this would be a...
Thanks so much for all your votes and feedback on our PRO Webinar Series over the holiday weekend. We received 285 responses and we're taking your suggestions very seriously and conducting the webinar as you've requested :-) Here are the stats from the questionairre/fo...
Over the past 2 years, SEOmoz has worked with quite a number of websites whose primary goal (or primary problem) in SEO has been indexation - getting more of their pages included in Google's index so they have the opportunity to rank well. These are, obviously, long tail focused sites that earn the vast majority of their visits from queries that bring in 5 or fewer searches each day. In this po...
