I just placed the following ad on Craigslist here in Seattle, and thought I'd share it here on the blog as well... Mighty LAMP Coders of Seattle, Heed Our Cry Don't be wooed by the big firms; come to a place where your talents are appreciated, y...
It feels cruel to give the search engineers at Yahoo!, Google, MSN & Ask more work, but I know that sometimes they might not have the best project tracking or distribution software, so I figured I'd be kind and make a list of items that need attention here in the blog, and they can refer to my post when they're wondering what to do with all their free time. ...
We're launching a new section for our premium members this morning: SEOmoz Q&A. This is a place where premium members can ask the SEOmoz staff SEO related questions and receive tips, advice, or just get pointed in the right direction. It works a bit like a trouble ticket system: discussions are opened, closed, rated, and eventual...
Si & I arrived late last night in Xi'an, in the Shaanxi province after 26+ hours of travel (which I don't recommend). Of course, I'm already set up online, trying to respond to dozens of emails, despite the us of an auto-responder. I think I'm feeling some empathy with Matt Cutts :) While here, I couldn't help myself but to conduct one of the most talked-about searches in regards to...
Tonight, Mystery Guest and I flew down to San Francisco for a quick weekend away (and to visit some friends). We arrived late and raced to get to a dinner with Laura Lippay in the financial district. Sadly, between our arrival time around 10pm to when we got back to the rental car at 11:30pm, the car was broken into (jimmied the driver's side lock and popped the trunk). My laptop, all our luggage ...
Today I'm very proud to announce that the Illustrated Guide to Search Friendliness is finally complete. I've personally been working on it for over a month - completely writing it from scratch and doing all the designs and illustrations, too. I'm incredibly happy with the results, and I think you will be, too. This guide is, in my opinion, one of the most valuable documents SEOmoz has ever prod...
Thanks a lot, Rand. Your "Make Stephen Colbert the Greatest Living American" contest resulted in over 150 comments and nearly 50 submissions. I had to spend nearly a week toiling over each link in order to crown the winner. (Okay, I spent about twenty minutes going through them,...
Jonah Stein from Alchemist Media hung out with some writers from the Colbert Report last week and told them about the powers of "Google-Bombing." Naturally, being the fun and mischievous crew that they are, they loved the idea and asked him if he could make Stephen #1 for "...
In August, 2005, SEOmoz launched the first series of ranking factors. We asked a dozen folks in the SEO world to vote on the importance of over 100 unique factors surmised to be part of the search engines' ranking algorithms. Today, we've released a new version that addresses many of the issues that frustrated users of the first...
We've added a new feature for premium members: SEO Tips and Tricks. It's nothing earth-shatteringly huge, just a simple list of SEO tips, tricks, and bits of industry knowledge that we don't make publicly available. The list will be updated fairly regularly and when a new tip is published you'll notice a New SEO Tip link in the left-hand navig...
It's been about a month and a half since our new site launch, meaning that we've received nearly 2 months' worth of YOUmoz submissions (160, to be exact, with 94 entries published). A little over half of the submissions we receive get published, but what...
Jeff's back from Austin. And he's got goodies!
With some help from Jeff, I've re-created a new version of our Recommended List of SEO Consultants, Experts, Firms & Service Providers. The new version features some very nice functionality for folks seeking specific services and price ranges, and provides considerably more information about each provider. ...
I've got to say that I'm immensely proud of Rebecca. When she first applied here at SEOmoz, we failed to even call her back for a second interview. But, she convinced us to take her on as an unpaid college intern, knowing that once we had a taste of her sweet work ethic, creativity and smorgasbord of pop-culture laden sarcasm, we'd have no choice bu...