I was pulling my visitor stats for the last 6 months at SEOmoz (Aug 2005 - Present) and found this remarkable bit of data worthy of interest: Top 10 Referring Domains: direct access or bookmark - 44.08%https://slashdot.org - 9.75%...
Business.com is on the hunt for folks in the SEO/M and web research spheres. I know some folks there personally and they're a top notch employer. Make sure you give props to a Ms. Sara Myers if you get the chance. Oh, and tell 'em Rand sent you....
Nadir started a thread at Cre8asite on the subject of repetitive strain injury to his hands. Folks chime in with recommendations and their own experiences and Nadir eventually points to this RSI page that has a few nifty diagrams and instructions for dodging the more p...
Buried. Buried in new business requests, phone calls, emails and people who need help. I'm trying to dig out and as soon as I can, I'll return to you, dear readers. If you're going through SEOmoz withdrawal, bug EGOL & 2K ;) In the meantime, some good posts from this week around the SEO world (I know some people hate these posts and others love 'em): Graywolf - ...
No relation to SEO whatsoever, but Ferry Halim, a graphic and Flash game designer whose work astounds me has put together what is, in my opinion, his most addictive game yet. If you've never been to Orisinal, get ready to spend the rest of the ...
I read an article from the NYTimes a few days ago and meant to blog on it, but luckily its online at IHT, so we can acutally access the content - Web puts a new spin on news gathering. From the article: But now they are going a step further. Subjects of newspaper...
Seattle Times columnist Danny Westneat has a great column from the end of 2005 describing in detail the sites most popular stories. The piece is a worthwhile read - eye opening about the...
According to a thread at SERoundtable, a few million results in Google (and other search engines) from Craigslist have dropped out due to a change in the robots.txt. The change must be very recent, as I had used Google to search CL just a week before the holidays. It's an interesting strategy from the classifieds giant - If anyon...
The infamous Black Hat SEO forums are for sale - Mick's done a good job building up the community there. Let's hope it stays in good hands. It sounds like offers should be $10K+, so make sure you're serious if you want to bid. The traffic and revenue details are also listed - I'd imagine it carries a valuable advertising spac...
I ordered my brand new Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop today. I was swayed mostly by the widescreen SUXGA monitor, which allows for a resolution of 1920 x 1200, ...
Nothing to do with anything, but I came across this blog today and had a very eery, familiar feeling. Not only is it called "Rands in Repose", but check out the top banner image: ...
So... we lost SEJournal's SEO blog contest, coming in 3rd to Matt Cutts and Aaron Wall. Oh, well. Maybe next year we'll have better luck. And besides, now I've got something to shoot for in addition to the raging battle to rank ahead of Matt for SEO at Google (we're current...
I got an email from Jen, who runs Ifish.net, a community fishing website that's got a lot of great things going for it, including a loyal visitor base of almost 100,000 (she's got logs here). Jen was looking for advice on where to take her business, and I directed her to cre8, where she's ...
I realized while emailing back and forth with EGOL today that many folks might not be aware of SEOmoz's tracker. It's a page that gives you updates on the most recent posts and comments - in an easy to read and follow style. It's practically become my homepage lately. Also, I want to reiterate how important it is to add a profile to ...