I think this is, without question, one of the most anticipated posts I've authored. Since I announced back in September to several friends that I'd be posting SEOmoz's financial records on the blog, people have generally responded with shock and amazement. While public companies are forced by law to issue their balance sheets & earning statements, for private companies, financial informatio...
Time for the year-in-review style posts. Andy's started it off with his top 10 posts and now it's our turn. All data is sourced from our Indextools install, which excludes spider visits. First off, our most popular blog posts: ...
Matt, Gillian & I are working away here on Boxing Day (while the rest of the SEOmoz crew recovers from a day of family and jolliness I presume). We've gotten a bit stumped on a naming convention for the new, user-generated section of the SEOmoz website. Originally called "UG Content," a descriptive but bland moniker, we've been tossing around some more comical and creative id...
This is one of those posts where Rebecca and Rand share time, so... -------Rebecca's Portion-------- We're really feeling the holiday joy in our tummies (though that could be all the beer we drank at lunch), so we thought we'd end the week with a Happy Holidays shout out to various colleagues: Fangirl recently starte...
2006 has been, by all accounts, a most incredible year for SEOmoz. Here's just a few things that have happened to us over the past 12 months: We've gone from an average of 200 daily readers last year to about 7,500 avg daily visitors and 5,700 RSS subscribers. SEOmoz had just over 15,000 results for its name last year in December - we're now around ...
It's nearing the end of the year, so why not give a shot at playing fortune teller - here are some predictions for what will be up (and down) next year: A great number of old-media sites will integrate social, "Web 2.0" features into their online properties. We'll see a few copies of Digg, a few MySpace-like clones, a couple del.icio.us' and plenty of maps mash-ups ...
Rand and I have been tagged by several SEOs to participate in Square Angle's game of blog tag. We thought we'd consolidate our answers in one post to avoid too much noise (hey, it's Friday. Give us a break!):5 Things You Didn't Know About Rebecca: In high school I wa...
I spent a few minutes today rebuilding my sidebar in Firefox. I figured it was worth spending 20 minutes or so to save myself hours and hours over the next 12 months. My steps included: Adding/Removing/Organizing my folders into how I use the web Weeding out all the sites and links I never visit anymore (there were more than 3 dozen) Going throug...
Hopefully I'm not contributing to the noise on SEOmoz by writing this post, but I think a quick entry on the subject is warranted. Very few people capitalize SEOmoz properly - and by capitalize I mean in terms of grammar (not money). We're the ones to blame, our name isn't exactly something anyone would know how to capitalize c...
I've had several folks mention that they believe the ratio of high-quality posts at SEOmoz has declined over the last several months. I'd like to get a determination from the community as to your opinions about the amount of content and the relative levels of value provided. As we roll out a new version in the next few weeks, we have some options about how to structure the content to allow you ...
Although Matt filled in for me yesterday to author a quick piece, I thought I'd expand on this topic before flying home to Seattle, as it's raised the ire of several folks hoping for a more thorough explanation. It's also an excellent time to talk about how bad outbound links can affect your website. At SEOmoz, we've got 10K+ members with profiles, and a visible amount of those wer...
I'm posting on behalf of Rand who is currently busy at SES Chicago. Prior to today if you wanted a link from SEOmoz all you had to do was sign up for an account, edit the URL field in your profile, and add a blog comment. We left this in place simply because we didn't care if the strength of our outbound links was diluted. Although SEO was high on our list of consider...
One of the folks in my office was searching Google and noticed a tiny icon beside every website in the SERPs - even on the AdWords. At first we thought we thought that Google was testing something new but a mouseover of the button yielded a McAfee SiteAdvisor bubble as shown below. (We were not searching for "Porn"... Honest!... I pos...
It's roundup time! Let's get this party started: It's Danny's last day at SEW... Get ready for SE Land (fingers crossed that we see more personality and more opinions mixed in with the news). This ...