Wit, a Dordrecht (Netherlands) based SEO has become the latest moderator at SEOChat. His dry humor and posting style, which is most similiar to waves from the ocean (nonstop, though they might ebb and flow), will be a welcome addition to the mod team at the forums. Stop by an...
Friday marked my one year anniversary since joining SEOChat and I opened a thank you thread to the community and many of the specific individuals who helped to shape my SEO/M knowledge. As I noted in the thread, although only my name appears here at SEOmoz, the contributors are really the entire community of SEOs from forums like SEOChat, Cr...
Today is a strange day in world events. Yesterday, London was nominated as the site of the 2012 Olympics, an honor that brings prestige, recognition and great economic opportunity to the city. Today, tragic, co-ord...
Threadwatch has a terrific (though poorly titled) thread (hats my arse) today on the demise of SEO. There are intelligent opinions from both sides, primarily in the comments on Nick's somewhat over-the-top post - a response to a ...
Fantomaster has been paused for more than a month now. Here's to hoping their blog returns with some of the great posts they launched with....
Jeffroyit at HighRankings had this to say today: When this morning I started admiring the label on a bottle of oil how optimized it is, how beautifully...
Although the SEO community can, at times, seem overwhelmingly large (with hundreds of blogs and dozens of forums with thousands of users each), the true relative size of the SEO/M industry in comparison to the parent industry of web design and development is miniscule. There are a few ways in which one could reasonably confirm the differences in size: del.icio.us - compare ...
Sifish pointed me to an article at the Wall Street Journal's Startup Journal by Sarah Needleman - Three Myths on Boosting Search-Engine Rankings. It a fairly primitive stab at explaining how the industry operates, and once again it pushes the pervasive view that most search engine optimization comp...
SERoundtable has a nomination process for the best SEO forum. Get your nominations in now and the vote will begin soon. All of my favorites have already been nominated, but smaller forums are welcome to join, too. I notice some well-respected forums still missing, so get going....
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has created a Legal Guide for Bloggers that walks us through the important issues of having a online journal of events. It notes what opinions are legal to publish, what can get you sued an...
Several people have now become involved in the OpenRank project - an attempt to re-build a large, representative index of the www for the purposes of obtaining information independent from the major commercial search engines. This data will most likely be ...
At SEW, Nacho started a thread on the subject of questions clients of SEOs whould expect to get from the companies they hire. Discussion follows and digresses into the subjects of whether to ...
Although I typically don't print letters I receive, I have to make an exception here. With the author's permission, this letter is in response to my post on the subject of Wikipedia editors discussing SEO: SEO is only really legitimate when it's the people running the search engines doing the optimi...
Wikipedia has some fascinating reading on the topic of SEO, not in the body of their article on SEO, but rather in the discussion secti...