I was recently asked by a friend of mine why I still bother with my nefarious black hat activities.As he put it, I could spend the time I'm building throwaway sites to pump out some sites that get repeat visitors. Of course, he's always harping on this particular subject but I decided to go into a bit more depth this time and play with the numbers a little bit......
I'm thrilled to welcome Geoffrey, aka G-Man as the latest blogger addition to the SEOmoz team. G-Man has a strong technical background and is familiar with both the white and black hat sides of SEO. I'm looking forward to his uni...
Anne Fisher at Fortune Magazine Online has a story - Be smarter at work, slack off - that I find surprisingly compelling: ...What scientists have only recently begun to realize is that people may do their best thinking when they are not concentrating ...
Lots of people use the Overture Keyword Tool to estimate search volumes and get ideas for additional keywords to target. I went there over the weekend to do a few domain searches. I felt that it would be a good way to measure "brand strength"...
I've been getting a lot of feedback about SEOmoz's blog shying away from many of the most mainstream and oft-discussed topics in the field. Everything from who's sueing Google to stock earnings to acquisitions and bannings gets written about at sites like SERoundtable, Threadwatch & ...
SEOmoz is considering adding a twinge of ebony to the hat color of our posting team. However, before making the move, we'd like your input. Would you like to see content that includes issues like: Spam tactics like cloaking, automated link building & bait & switch techniques Search engines penalties & bans Click fraud, Adsense farms &am...
And now for something completely different. Via Slate - Ireland's "Crack" Habit: In the last 15 years, Dublin-based IPCo and its competitors have fabricated and installed more than 1,800 watering holes in more than 50 countries. Guinness threw its weight (and that...
SEOmoz is moving our offices in the next month or two - if anyone has any beads on space in Seattle (between 1000-2000 square feet, Class A), please drop me a line. We've been having a tough time finding something suitable and it's taking up way too much time. The commercial real estate market seems to have heated up in the last 18 months, and we're looking art almost boom-like prices in many a...
Just wanted to point out MyHeritage.com's facial recognition and matching software, which has given my girlfriend quite a thrill. It seems that I'm a 51% facial match to Cary Grant - she's glowing right now. ...
Blog I started writing: I just finished watching a rerun of the Colbert Report on Comedy Central (brilliant show, BTW) and noted a promo at the end of program to visit the "#1 fan site for Stephen Colbert - Colbert Nation". Sure enough, it's an actual fan site, set...
Recent events have made SEOmoz a very different company moving forward than we have been historically. From the shift with our new website, to the recent contacts we've made to the focus of the contracts we're currently reviewing, the landscape is changing. Instead of a focus on SEO and rankings, the new SEOmoz is going to be working in a strategic consulation role - helping companies t...
Thanks to Ian Mcanerin, who suggested the Canadian government's new TLD - .gov.ca (the humble fellow isn't taking credit, far too gentlemanly). The debate on what to choose was relatively interesting, with the French Canadian contigent complaining bitterly that .gouv.ca was not the choice. B...
Matt's go to pick one to work on next, so we figured; who better to ask than you? Sandbox Detection (identifies how strongly your site is "boxed" at Google) Rank Check (checks across engines and datacenters) Quick Strength (measures your site vs. the top 10 for a keyword) Topic Detection (automatically categorizes the con...
A friend forwarded me the portfolio of San Francisco based copywriter, Chris Elzinga. Sadly, the site is in frames, so I can't link directly to the ads I found compelling. It's OK, though, his entire collection of work is really worthy of a read - devilishly clever and unabashedly charismatic. What Chris has done is to instill personality and character...