By: Rand Fishkin
The Long Tail of Lego & How their Site Gets it Right
Moz NewsI noticed this well thought-out post today from Chris Anderson at the Long Tail (which is a blog I've been mean...
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SEO map
Moz NewsA recent thread in SEOChat brought up this extremely cool and fun tool - SEO Map. This is one wicked and excellent idea to utilize Google services to connect business and professionals to each other. If you are not listed, ...
By: Rand Fishkin
Etsy - It's Froogle, but 10x Better
Moz NewsShopping on the web has never been cooler. This site - Etsy - is appealing in a way that I haven't seen in a long time. They've combined many of the latest "Web 2.0" trends into the store and amalgamated thousands of sellers into an online...
By: Rand Fishkin
SEOmoz Stats Reveal...
Moz NewsWell, frankly, that you should add a link to your website in your profile. Seriously. I looked at the in-depth visitor data today for this site and found that a lot folks are clicking on your comment profiles, and most of them are getting nothing. SEOmoz's comment system works differently than most blogs, so you actually need to click on the members section...
By: Rand Fishkin
Company Blogs are Not Wholly Unreliable
Moz NewsThis comes via Lee Odden's new link list (good work there). It's a report from Technorati that details the results of a survey se...
By: Rand Fishkin
One Latte
Moz NewsThat's all I had - one latte after dinner at the restaurant. The waitress told me they didn't have decaf, but I said - "heck with it, it's only 7pm" (we ate early). Yet, here I am at 2:30am and I can't sleep a wink. My mind is on overdrive trying to process strategic decisions for my business - how to grow quickly without overstepping our budget and how to become a bigger company while staying ...
By: Rand Fishkin
Happy Birthday to Us
Moz NewsSEOmoz turned 1 year old today. Our first post, way back on October 14th of last year shows just how far we've come. I'm really happy with the way this site has turned out and I have great things in mind (particularly with relation to the tools) o...
By: Rand Fishkin
Online Sketchbook
Moz NewsBack in the late '90's, I was obsessed with Flash design. I spent countless hours animating text and building organic-styled site designs. I gave up on that a long time ago, when I realized that true designers had something I lacked (namely talent) and that hard work can only take you ...
By: Rand Fishkin
Turning down VC Money
Moz NewsWhile browsing today, I noted that 9Rules had a post on the topic of a recent offer of venture capital funding that they turned down. Much as Nick over at TW hates anything to do with search algorithms or research papers, I'm not a big fan of the Web 2.0 craze (a ter...
By: Rand Fishkin
Ranking Factors Article Finally Finished
Moz NewsApologies for the long delay, but the search ranking factors article is now complete. Thanks to everyone who contributed; it's quite an impressive display of how much knowledge and experience professional SEOs can share when they get together on a project. There are now two formats, one where all of the comments left by the contrib...
By: Rand Fishkin
Quick Note on Ranking Factors
Moz NewsI know many people are anxious for the update to the search ranking factors article. Just FYI - I'm working on it now and should have it done by the end of the day. All the votes are in but one, and I'll launch it this afternoon (PST) and have the last person's votes added in tomorrow (when he has time). Thanks to everyone participating. It's an extraordinary breadth and depth of inform...
By: Rand Fishkin
Welcome to Keijo Kortelainen
Moz NewsSEOmoz welcomes to our posting team a 3rd member - Keijo Kortelainen of 2KMediat in Finland. It's a pleasure adding international flair to our editorial content and Keijo's first post on keyword research is a great one. I'm l...
By: Rand Fishkin
Neato - An Anchor Text Analysis Tool from WeBuildPages
Moz NewsNeato is a great tool from WeBuildPages (Jim Boykin & Todd Malicoat's excellent SEO shop). It analyzes backlinks (up to 1000 at a time) and their respective anchor texts. It's actually insanely v...
By: Rand Fishkin
Harriet Miers' Blog Duped Me
Moz NewsI admit it. This blog on Harriet Miers (Mr. Bush's recent nominee to the Supreme Court) had me going for a second. I called my office mates around to show them what I thought was clear evidence that this was a very strange, ...