The SEOmoz blog features a suggestion form that allows users to submit comments or questions for the blog. Just now, I discovered that many of those messages were getting filtered into my spam box - apologies all around. To atone for this grievious oversight, I'm writing a post that should help to answer a lot of the best questions I found from the last 3 months. In several instances, ...
Delivering an accurate, reasonable price for your search marketing services is not an easy task. It requires that you pay attention to numerous factors that can affect the effort and time required to complete, along with internal and external market forces (i.e. How badly do you need the money? What do other SEOs charge?). Since this topic gets so little play around the industry discussion...
Last week I received an RFI (Request for Information) from a Fortune 1000 firm in the tech space. They were obviously contacting lots of SEO firms, but I figured I'd take a chance (mostly to see what the response would be like). Fast forward to today when I get the following in my email (excerpted): ...
Tonight is my final night in Kuopio (Finland) as we’re moving to new office, and new home in Sumiainen tomorrow. I have to admit that I feel a bit sentimental, somewhat scared, but also very excited. One of my mentors in t...
Some great posts have already been written on the subject of reputation management in the SERPs via the creation of profiles at numerous sites like Blogger, Squidoo, MySpace, Technorati, Yahoo! 360, Flickr, et al. My favorites are: Fighting Off Negative Publicity and Affiliates in the SERPs - SEOBook ...
With summer officially here (and 90 degree weather in Seattle, which almost never happens), it's time for a week in review post. From SEO-Scoop - a list of the 519 known Google datacenters At SEOBook - a great bookmark; the se...
As I walked back into the office today after several morning meetings (thankfully in the Seattle area), Gillian and I got to chatting about the issue of publicly mentioning the companies we work with. The following is a quote from Gillian on the subject: "You're like a plastic surgeon, Rand. Thousands of beautiful women know you wel...
From the responses I've been getting from many of the folks I refer to SEOmoz's Recommend List (averaging about 3 leads per day), the list is getting a bit stale. Many of the people seeking services are being turned away, often because their brands aren't big enough, they don't have enough to spend on SEO or they're simply not a good ...
Tonight, I got to meet one of my all-time SEO heroes for the first time in person - Ammon Johns. Living up to his mystical reputation, he instantly gave me some advice for the SEOmoz website that I think will serve quite well for the future. He also regaled me with some hilarious stories, some deep insight into the SEO field...
Okay, so this post isn't Rand-tastic like our beloved CEO's frequent blogs (seriously, the man's a blogging machine), but I thought I'd take my boss's "Post blogs while I'm gone or you're fired!" threat* seriously and attempt to bring something to the blog table.Via digg, I found an an interesting article featured on IEEE Spectrum titled "Googlearchy or Googlocracy?"...
I chatted with a friend in the industry this evening who signed up a consulting client several months ago. My friend has been in touch with the client several times about starting the work, but apart from a couple general questions, they've never used the consulting time they purchased. I was immensely curious about the details and luckily, my friend could share a few specifics. The con...
Although the topic of political figures (and parties) requiring SEO work had been burning a hole in my head for some time, Wired News has an article from Saturday on just this subject - Pols Hire Web-Savvy Staffers. Consider Ari Rabin-Havt, 27, who blogs...
Rand's post about SEW Live Seattle 2006 (below) got me thinking (and ranting) about SEO salaries. Below is an quote from what Rand said: Apparently, the lowest entry level SEO position ranges from $40-60K per year...The highest offer he recorded was $315,000 ...
I just can't put the rhythmic tunes of Julie Andrews into an SEO myths post, try as I might. But, the content's here... so let's have at it - these aren't the top 10 SEO myths, they're the... Top 10 "obscure" SEO myths: #10 - Submitting to hundreds of "minor search engines" is the only way to boost "...
