"The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things: Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax-- Of cabbages--and kings-- And why the sea is boiling hot-- And whether pigs have wings." We can talk about the temperature of the sea and the possibility of winged pork some other time,...
It's been a long time since we had a differential diagnosis post here on SEOmoz, but we've been getting lots of comments and emails requesting some mysteries, so here goes: #1 - Who, Exactly, is Awesome, and Why? ...
It's late night Sunday and rather than bringing you exciting news from the world of search and SEO, I've got some explaining to do. For those who hadn't noticed, SEOmoz has some serious downtime and errors this weekend. Starting early morning Saturday and running through to Sunday, many parts of the site were inaccessible due to either A) an exceptionally unlucky set of simultaneous h...
(Intro: For those who aren't aware, last week I challenged Will Critchlow to a presentation-off during SMX London). I see how it is, Will. Don't try to deny it. You can't win on points, so y...
A bit of a personal development post tonight, and a short one. I recently read an introduction to a blog post from Todd Mintz that caught me off guard: I was checking into my hotel at SES San Jose last year when I noticed in the lobby a prominen...
Today, at the SMX Sydney conference, Darren Rowse and I had a fascinating conversation that I felt compelled to share. In 2006, a popular blog post or piece of content would generate a remarkable amount of blogging activity. It wasn't uncommon for a few hundred small & mid-size blogs & news sites to pick up a story, add their thoughts...
Hiya folks! I'm pleased to announce some new features, functionality, and funtastic contests that we're rolling out in order to make you lousy masses happy (wait, did I just type what I was thinking?). I've listed them below: Top Ranked Users is Now Free of Rand's Bearded Mug Some of you may have noticed weird changes afoot on our ...
We've given a face lift to an oldie but a goody: The Professional's Guide to Link Building has been updated and is available in web and document format. Written by link builder extraordinaire Eric Enge, the guide is a great resource for beginners who want to know why link building is important and how it impacts a site's rankings. Additionally, it covers various link building strategies and lists a ton of tools and resources to help you find links.
NOTE: this is an announcement of a PRO-only tool. If you're not PRO you can take a peek at what you're missing :) With the launch of our SEOmoz Labs initiative we have some freedom to quickly launch data and tools which either introduce something new and powerful (like Blogscape) or highlight improvements and mashups of tools and data we've already got. Today we're launching a retooled Backlink Anchor Text Analyzer, powered by Linkscape.
Choice is a great thing, even when it comes down to the question of being able to put bacon on your cheeseburger. SEOmoz prides itself in giving its members choice, even when it comes down to the little things like the swag. But who doesn't like free swag, right? I’ll be the first person to admit jumping wildly at any free booth swag. I don't care if it's a Comcast branded chip-clip... I want it.
Recently while I was reading a post on SEOmoz, I started to think about the users of SEOmoz and the whole points system. I read one of Lindsay’s Twitter post saying that the MozPoint distribution system on SEOmoz is a case study in itself. I thought it might be a cool thing for all the users and SEOmoz staff ...
Introduction Hi, I'm Chas, a developer at SEOmoz. I've been working here since last summer, and though I've written many lines of code, this is my very first blog post. Now, I'm happy to have the chance to reveal the super-secret project I've been working on: Blogscape! Blogscape ...
Hey gang, I know a lot of you are making awesome use of Linkscape. We've seen impressive use of the Link Intelligence Report, and since the launch of the Free mozRank API a couple of weeks ago we've served millions of mozRank values to widgets, linkbait, and internal reporting pipelines. So I'm pleased to ...
WARNING: The following post is long, personal and rambles quite a bit. It contains very little SEO advice, so if this isn't your kind of thing, you might want to skip it. It was written over the course of 20ish hours and hops back and forth between days and times during my recent trip to London. Enjoy!6:45am GMT, February 19t...