Hey everyone, Rebecca here to officially pen (key?) my first ever SEOmoz blog post. I'll let the fanfare die down before I proceed...anyway, since Rand has labeled me a bonafide fluent Spanish speaker (although I'd more accurately say I've gotten pretty rusty due to my lack of conversing with anyone in Spanish), I need to polish up my mad Spanish skills for the SES conference in Miami. Anyone know...
Ms. Mastaler (she of great link building prowess) has delivered a list of blogs in SEO and the search space in general taht she's evaluated with the largely inaccurate, but totally fun (and hyper-linkbaity) "How much is your blog ...
EGOL pointed me to Russ Jones' (of Virante - new to me, but they've supposedly been around since 1998) new blog, where he's writing on the topic of consensual relationships (I know; it sounds like the title of an "after-school" special, but it's quite good): ...
Another short post due to my slow typing. Money magazine put out their list of the top 50 jobs and while SEO isn't on there per se, I think we can make some assumptions and slide onto the list. The job of SEO combines, in my opinion, the following: Market Research Analyst (#6 on the list...
WeeWorld launched their new website yesterday and it's got a cool feature that's virtually unused called "...
I rarely watch the "v7ndotcom elursrebmem" contest (despite promising to do so) simply because so many other folks in the SEO sphere are keeping a much more careful eye on it than I have time for. However, I was passed along information noting that of the top 20 sites at Google, a full 75% are newly registered domains. By all rights, those puppies should be in the sandbox...
RFPs (Request for Proposal) are industry standard in marketing, communication and other consulting service-type organizations in the business world. But lately, as I've looked over a dozen or so that have been sent my way in the past few weeks, I've discovered something intriguing about them... They're evil. The RFPs I've gotten (with the exception of a few wholly reasonable and...
I'm pleased to be able to break the news that Matt Bailey, formerly of the Karcher Group, has opened his own SEO & web marketing consultation firm - SiteLogic. Why is he going directly to the Recommend List? Because Matt is one of the smartest, fastest moving people in the industry. Matt's the type of guy who knows everything...
Over the 3 years or so that I've been watching the ranking websites for the term "SEO" at Google, there have been some massive changes. From the dropouts of big sites like SEOInc and SEO-Guy, to the incredibly quick climb of ...
Laura started a good thread at HighRankings called What Was Your First Search Epiphany? A few of the short responses brought a nice laugh on a Friday: When I first started SEO in 1999 and being in the top 10 for "generic viagra" and saying t...
Si played devil's advocate with me at dinner tonight. I argued that many SEO/Ms are working towards the same goals as the search engines - to deliver the best possible user experience and website to visitors. Si's response was that the industry doesn't work that way - we're interested in the search rankings, the traffic and the conversions; visitors be damned. From his perspective, it's not a bad ...
Ammon Johns posted at Cre8asite on a pet peeve of his own - folks who pose as clients to get ideas, information and consulting for free. This insidious practice is, according to Ammon, exceedingly common and although I'm sure I've been the target of it, I can't put my finger on which of the potential folks I'v...
One of my big pet peeves in the SEO world is those who claim to provide services that help get traffic from the search engines but don't - either through ignorance, greed or laziness. Regular readers of the blog should be intimately familiar with my fight against misinformation in the industry and it should come as no surprise that I was infuriated to see statistics like these when doing some r...
Aaron's got an interesting post noting that a search for "Aaron Wall" at Google brings up his personal site before SEOBook.com, despite the latter being the clear leader in every facet of "optimization" (anchor text, number of links, power of links, etc.). It's even ranki...