A friend of mine recently moved here from Italy and has taken me out several times in the Pacific Northwest wilderness to forage for mushrooms. His exuberance and passion for the food is infectious and I've found myself enjoying the chase, cooking and meals more and more....
As you can probably tell from the slight cosmetic changes to SEOmoz's blog section, we're now a full-featured community. There's a list of our current members (already at 2000+ thanks to the tools) and a section in your membership profile where you can add your site (and get a nice link). We also allow for avatars in the blog comments and are in the process of letting users submit their own ent...
gVisit is a tool that you can install on your site to see where the last 20-100 visitors to your site came from geographically. It's nothing sophisticated, but it is another example of a site using Google's map API to create something unique, and building on the succes...
This blog is really my first forray into the realm of reporting and providing information publicly to a sizeable audience. As such, I'm bound to make mistakes, and the issue brewing at TW on the subject of my reporting private conversations on this blog is a big one. It's something I'm now sorry I did and if I could take it back, I would. I've ...
I'm finally back in Seattle, after another fascinating day of playing with some industry leaders, gurus and fun guys. This morning I crushed my alarm clock after it went off at 8am. I finally got up around 9 and out of my room around 10am - just in time to catch the link building forum with Thomas Bindl, Debra Mastaler and Eric Ward. They gave me some good tips on how to link build for e-commer...
In 20 minutes, I should be giving my speech in San Jose on Google's recent patent, Information Retrieval Based on Historical Data. Instead, I'm home, in Seattle, anxiously awaiting word of how the reception of my "presentation by proxy" has gone. The slides are a...
This fun thread has a couple classic haikus for the industry, including: I love Y and MAll my sites rank well with themGoogle is a drag Smarmy Search Spam SucksStill Soili...
I spoke with my contact at MSN Search today, who told me that, sadly, the community questions submitted to MSN Search will not be ready for publication prior to the SES show in San Jose. However, look for them within a few weeks - I expect some great stuff as the questions were truly top notch. Thanks for your patience! I'm busy today prepping for the show - leaving Sunday morning at 7a...
An excellent thread at SEOChat points out the defintion of RSS (Really Simple Syndication) and how it's use in websites for SEO purposes can help to boost things like pages indexed, fresh content, and the "long tail" of search visitors. In particular, several resources were pointed to: How to ...
One of the biggest problems with the SEO/M industry is that we're so successful that it's hard to find places to spend our money. For some, skydiving is just the ticket, for others, it's a ...
Today I found my way over to some of CNET's more personalized content, a section on home office pohots sent in by users. Of course, CNET offers their own guidelines as to what you should buy to improve the space, and links to the stuff you already have so readers can bu...
One of the largest online tech communities is the world-wide phenomenon of web, graphic & media designers. This illustrative and overflowing group floods the web with portal communities that take 10 minutes to download, even with a broadband connection. Th...
One of the big time spammers at SEOChat - Geoffrey of Syndk8 - has posted a great advice thread on the value of having a quick and easy exit from your website host. Geoff's host caught on to some of his nefarious practices and apparently doesn't approve, so he's been in a bit of a spot. Donna...
For those who may need a public site to point their colleagues, friends or remaining disbelievers to for information about the sandbox, just use SEOmoz! This site is now in the sandbox at Google for hundreds of terms that the old URL (socengine.com/seo) ranked in the top 3-5 results for. I've opened a sandbox thread at SEOC...