Hey, hey, Mozzers. I'm invading SEOmoz! Muahaha! [looks around] Okay, being on the inside actually feels a little weird. Let's just do this. I guess I'll introduce myself: I'm Lisa Barone and during the day I hang out at Outspoken Media, an Internet marketing company I recently founded with partners in crime Rhea Drysdale and Rae Hoffman. We kick ass. But this post isn't about them. It's about me.
After a whole month on the job I can attest that it’s an exciting time to work at SEOmoz! In the midst of a tough economy, we are delighted to see continued growth in the number of PRO members we serve as well as an impressive stream of consulting inquiries. To help support our next stage of growth, we are hiring an SEO! ...
We've been pouring in hours on Linkscape, growing the index (46+ million domains & 36+ billion pages), making the updates closer together and refining the quality of our metrics. Today, we've got two big announcements that should be exciting for nearly everyone in the SEO development and analysis space. First off, we're launching a free Linkscape API to access two of Linkscape's most popular metrics - mozRank of a URL and the number of external links to a URL. Second, we've launched a list of the top 500 sites & pages on the web, ordered by the number of unique root domains linking to them (alongside other interesting SEO metrics).
As you may know, one of my job duties here is to manage our user-generated blog. Every day I sift through the queue of blog entry submissions and publish posts about Internet marketing, business tactics, social media, web dev/design, etc. While I publish one or two worthy, relevant blog entries each day, I delete several spam submissions. I've seen spam entr...
Those of you who've been running Linkscape reports this weekend may have noticed our new, fresher data in the index. This is our second update (the first was on Dec. 8th of 2008) and it's brought with it a refresh of much of the crawl we originally launched with in October. This update is seriously good news for us, as it's taken far less time, energy and frustration than our first update, and it's good news for our members (and anyone who uses the free data) as much of the web's changes in Q4 2008 are now included in the index. We're working towards updates every 4-5 weeks, but it may be several more before we can get that level of freshness.
Intrepid surfers of SEOmoz may have already noticed the new additions to our team - Lindsay Perkin Wassell & Adam Feldstein. Many of you in the SEO field know Lindsay well from her role as Director of SEO at OnTargetJobs and frequent speaking and participation at industry conferences. Today, she's joining SEOmoz's team as the manager of our consulting operations. Adam is somewhat new to the world of SEO, though as Group Program Manager of MSN Autos for the last few years, he's certainly put some significant energy into the process. I'm thrilled to have both of these folks on board with us, and think an introduction is definitely deserved.
This week I'm speaking to a number of startups about SEO - something I absolutely love to do as I've complained in the past that many don't pay appropriate attention to SEO. At SEO conferences, we often find humor in the stereotypes surrounding our world, and startups a...
It was a bit difficult hitting the Compose Entry link in my account to write this, because this will be one of the last blog posts I write as an SEOmoz staff member. At the end of this month and after two and half fantastic years, I'm leaving SEOmoz and Seattle. It's amazingly hard to know how to word something like this: I want to get across so much and there's no way to word it at all cleverly. ...
All of us at SEOmoz are proud to announce that in addition to doubling the size of the Linkscape index today, we are releasing our own SEO toolbar! The developers and PRO member beta testers have been hard at work prodding, poking and tweaking the toolbar to make sure it is fine tuned and ready for today.
Finally we've done it. The long awaited Linkscape index update is here. It's more than doubled the size of our index and with it you'll get 3000 links to any page. This brings us to about 38 billion URLs, with about 450 billion links...
After having worked with a number of clients as well as listened to my colleages talk about companies and folks they've worked with, I thought I'd draft up a handy list identifying the various types of clients you may run into. I've found that this list is extremely official and scientific, so you should be able to refer to it and instantly identify a potential client. ;) Enjoy! ...
Today is Election Day in the United States, and, by most accounts, is an exceptionally important and historic one. I thought it would be valuable to get a look at the world of SEOs and how we're generally choosing to cast our ballots. There have been a few endorsements around the tech world:
For the first time in nearly 2 years, SEOmoz is hiring for a Search Engine Optimization specialist. We've got more consulting requests than ever, lots of work to do to improve our tools and our PRO membership and we need to grow our SEO team. Thus, we're seeking the best and brightest the SEO world has to offer - someone who can bring expertise, experience and insight to every aspect of our bus...
It's been 12 long months of intense anticipation, but the waiting is finally over. Today, I'm ecstatic to announce some very big new developments here at SEOmoz. They include: An Index of the World Wide Web – 30 Billion pages, refreshed (and grown) monthly, built to help provide SEOs and businesses acquire greater intelligen...