It's 7:45pm in Seattle and 3:45am here in London. Why am I up? The same reason I was up last night at this time, and, for that matter, the night before that. My body can't seem to adjust to Greenwich Mean Time. Of course, I've been far too busy to sleep during the day, which leaves me wondering how long a 26-year old male can actually go without any significant quantity of shut-eye. Luc...
Starting tomorrow morning, I'll be traveling to Europe for a mix of business and pleasure. My itinerary includes: London - both to visit clients and speak at the SES London Conference Munich - where I'll be meeting my long-time girlfriend's father for the first time Milan - another client and a potential new one Venice - pure vacat...
The astute observer will have noticed that I've been rather absent lately on the boards.The reason why is rather simple - I have Hodgkin's Disease (for the 3rd time) and I'm getting an alogeneaic<sp> transplant. That simply means I've received the stem cells from my brother.Seems there was a 1 in 250,000,000 shot that he'd be a perfect match (10/10 markers) and ...
I'm often asked what kind of clients we typically work with and, more rarely, the client we'd love to work with. Here's the criteria I see as best suited to a "dream job" in the SEO business: The project is in an industry that isn't overrun with competition - maybe they make a product or provide a service no one else can offer or they're a direct producer of a good ...
I see powerful things in Digg, Slashdot, Stumbleupon, Delicious, Wikipedia, forums of all types, and other sites that attract people because of a common interest or activity. These sites are "communities" of visitors or authors. These sites drive massive traffic in a short blast or massive traffic that is cumulative over time.My guess is that these highly popular ...
Too many items from early this week and last last week are critical reading. Make sure you take notice of these, as a few have a strong effect on the industry: Wired exposes NSA wiretapping on the Internet Backbone at AT&T and they wrote an excellent piece on ...
Yes, it's prepostorous. But, if it did happen, here are some items I might take on, both on the relevance boosting side and from a webmaster relations angle. First, spam killing and relevance boosting: Hire a team of 5-10 SEOs to watch the top known "spam" arenas. These guys/gals would watch over searches like those in my sing-a-long-spam post, ide...
As those of you without ad blinders may have noticed, SEOmoz has switched out our paid banner ads in favor of some Amazon sponsored links to books (and possibly other materials in the future) that we recommend. The banner ad model appears to be successful at sites like SERoundtable, SEWatch, ...
This past weekend a bunch of us SEOmozzers participated in a 5k (3 mile) benefit run around greenlake. I'd just like to publicly say GOOD JOB to everyone that put the effort in and ran the distance. Although not highly competitive, it was for a good cause and I think we all queued up some rad karma points. Also, kudos to Kat for initiating the idea. Here's a few photos:...
For the first time since launch, I've been receiving some negative feedback on certain blog entries, not just from newcomers to the site, but from long-time readers and respected search industry folks. Since the primary purpose of this blog is to provide a hub of information, sharing, news and, on occassion, humor for the SEO community, I thought it wise to ask for an entire thread devoted...
Rand's Warning: This post is very long, very personal and, while highly informational, doesn't contain many tips on how to perform SEO or get your content or your site in front of the right people. What it does contain is a bit of history about our business here at SEOmoz and a sharing of the issues we're struggling with for the future. Why ...
We're in sore need of a good, entry-level developer ASAP. This person doesn't need to be a hardcore master of the LAMP field, but they should have some webdev experience and be ready to dive into a very fun and busy environment. If you or someone you know is interested, please visit Matt's Craigslist post for the position...
I am totally amazed that no one in the SEO blogosphere have not issued the Day Next project that is going on at Adobe -Macromedia. The Day Next idea is simple and great SEO rev...
At 5:45pm tonight, I'll be lecturing to Univ. of WA MBA students on the subject of SEO. I'm fairly excited about this gig, as I dropped out of the UW's school of business two classes from graduation (way back in 2000) in order to pursue SEOmoz full-time. Right now, my outline looks like: Introduction ...
