I'm having a tough time deciding whether or not online professional networking sites are absolutely brilliant or a complete waste of time. We're talking the LinkedIn / Spoke / Xing ...
While Rebecca and I were in New York this past week, we sat down with Michael McDonald of WebProNews to discuss some social media issues. While Rebecca is upset that she has a large strand of hair partially covering her face, and I'm amused at the awful look on my face in the embedded player, we didn't come across too badly on the film so we decided to post it here.
Twenty-Eight Minutes... More than a full TV show worth of content, in-jokes and Google tips from a conversation with Vanessa Fox from Google's Webmaster Central team....
No April's Fools stuff from us this year - the search world is overrun with pranks. I do have have an important question that I'd love to get answers to. I'll start by providing my own. In 2001, the company that would become SEOmoz (at the time just Gillian, Matt & myself) began taking on some e-commerce development projects. Previously, we had designed static websites in Flash &...
On Monday, Brian Provost at ScoreBoard Media Group authored a post called - The First Question You Should Ask Your SEO Consultant. Brian's exceptionally good at expressing himself, so I won't paraphrase: “If you can rank a site in lucrative markets, why wou...
Poor Jason Calacanis. He seems to want to be the Ann Coulter or Bill O'Reilly of the SEO sphere, where he'll say stupid, outrageous things just to get noticed and blogged about. (And yes, I'm blogging about him...shut up.) In a recent post he authored (I'm not going to link to it because I think he's an idiot), he talks about how there is no such thing as "blue collar blogging" and "...
The business of optimizing websites for search engines is an immensely difficult, convoluted task. It requires a massive amount of knowledge, an incredible dedication to keeping up with one of the fastest moving industries on the planet and ruthless...
Our field has grown tremendously over the last 5 years. When Danny Sullivan launched the first Search Engine Strategies conference, I'd estimate that less than 5,000 people worldwide called themselves SEOs. Today, the number of self-referencing "search marketers" is probably closer to 100,000 and may well be much higher. But, a number of features separate the SEO/M expert fr...
The recent hacking of SEO blogs such as Wolf Howl, BoogyBonBon and Stuntdubl underlined a key point – the vulnerabilities of publishing software that we rely on.However, in this incident, although the...
Didier Bizimungu had a post on his SEO News Blog that circulated around the industry. The subject was the top 10 SEO leaders, and since Didier asked for my opinion, I thought I'd share it publicly. Here's Didier's list: Daron Babin Matt Cutts R...
Recently there have been a few negative comments about general on-page optimisation. David Pasternack has pooh-poohed it, and Shoemoney has expressed reservations. A couple of years ago I would have joined them – after...
Someone mentioned to me today that Bruce Clay has done a great job of optimizing his site over the past year, and reclaimed some of those top positions for broad level SEO terms. One of these is search engine optimization, where Bruce ranks in the 2nd spot: ...
An ugly situation recently arose out of Chris Hooley's "drinkbait" campaign at Pubcon (which was not only a great idea, but a well-executed one, to boot). Liana Evans developed a remarkably similar campaign called "hatbait" that she began at SES Chicago. Until tonight, when I read Chris' post on the subject...
A few interesting stories make the presses today...1. Google funds terrorism!Or so you'd think from the headlines. A story about clickbot networks in PPC fraud that mentioned illicit groups profiting from it - got mixed in as a terrorism story.According to Jerry Schoemaker (Shoemoney) [blo...