I'm pleased and excited to inform you all that Rand is sending me to England for 18 days to participate in Ammon Johns' SEO Intern Training Program. I'll be leaving October 31st and will arrive in London on November 1st. After five days of sightseeing (including celebrating ...
I'll be traveling to Las Vegas this weekend for a friend's wedding (and hopefully taking some time to hike in Zion National Park, too). To compensate for my slow blogging, a trademark roundup: If you're not using Google's News Archive for competitive intelligence, you're missing out. It's an impressive resource, though I hop...
The weekend here in Seattle is dark, foggy & wet so it's a perfect time to share some of my favorite games from the web. Some of these you can play online, others you'll have to download, and all are guaranteed to sap your productivity. Fancy Pants Adventure ...
For a little Friday fun, I came up with ten sentences you may read in an email from someone whose writing has clearly been influenced by the Web: "I really digg that noob girl that Accounting hired." "Whoever pwns a blue Dodge Stratus needs to move his car because it's parked next to a hydrant." "Did you notice the lig...
It's bloggregation time. Let's get right to it: Bill Slawski wrote about Google Personalization Methods. The lowdown is that Google is building profiles of users based on dozens of web activities to which they're privy (through ads and apps and searches and more). This data is being used to improve your search experience (which...
Man, Rand took a trip to both Houndstown and Badgersville to constantly bug me to finish this damn thing, so I'll let the fanfare die down before proceeding...Ahem. Okay.Remember when we hired Jane? Come on, think back. It wasn't that long ago. Anyway, the whole hiring experience was tiring, amusing, and (at least to SEOmoz) somewhat interesting, so I was ...
While browsing through my favourite websites this morning, I happened across a very good (or, very bad) example of a careless editing turning into an embarrassment for a credible organization. Swimming World Magazine is usually very good at posting interesting stories about the aquatic world; however, t...
Last week was Multiple Deadlines Week at SEOmoz. It's the first time it's happened since I started working for the company, but I figured that sooner or later I was bound to fall victim to the dreaded Five Hundred Deadlines in the Same Week Syndrome. So, what happens when Rand assigns me multiple time-consuming tasks that are all due within two days of each other? Normally, I take the...
Yesterday I spent some time on hold on the phone and browsed through my "rarely read" sources, only to find that this week has some great material that's gone largely unnoticed. Let's begin with a field that barely gets mentioned at SEOmoz: Politics. FactCheck.orgI've been referred to this site in t...
For a long time, SEOmoz's RSS feed has been full text - the entire content of every post (minus images, polls & embedded video) has gone out to readers that subscribe through a feed format. According to Feedburner, a majority of our blog readership accesses the blog in this manner - we average a bit over 4,000 feed subscribers, get about 5-600 clickthroughs from feed listings and have only ...
I have to admit that I was a bit sad this morning to discover that my little competition with Matt here at the office didn't go so well for me. We were both writing blog entries late last night, both convinced that our post was the more linkbait worthy. Sadly, Matt schooled me - his post received ...
Of all the season changes in Seattle, Autumn is the one I can feel the most. The long shadows, shorter days and 10 degree temperature drop instill a sense of urgency and iminent loss. No doubt about it; the allegory of the seasons hits hard in October. Luckily, I can stall those feelings by ramping up my efforts to accomplish more, take control of the days and plan for a brighter f...
It's with great pleasure that I introduce our newest SEOmoz team member, the incredibly talented Jane Copland. Jane's tenure at SEOmoz has only been a week, but she's already a valuable addition to our team - poring through tomes of websites, blogs and books to catch up on the fast-moving world of search. ...
Andy Beal spent the day with SEOmoz, consulting with us on how to grow our business, take advantage of our strengths and shore up areas of weakness. Andy's experience with WebSourced, a giant firm in the field and Fortune Interactive, a mid-size player, has given him the ability to take a close look at a firm in SEO and immediately identify strategi...