We post about Digg quite often (and here we go again), but I've been watching certain Digg phenomenon for a while, and one stands out from the rest as the most ironic and most amusing. My favourite Digg irony is the hatred the (a-HEM) Diggorati have for SEO, coupled with the fact that they fall for our linkbait All. The. Time. Every so often, one of our employees will roll into the ...
Rand send me an email on Monday and asked me to review Twitter for the blog as it's been getting some coverage is the blogosphere lately. I'd heard of the site, but had never really investigated it in depth, so I signed up...
While chatting with a fellow SEO (whose identity I concealed, just in case he doesn't want his screen name public) over IM, I noticed that certain words were being underlined in green. When I hovered my cursor over an underlined word, I got a little pop-up definition, courtesy of Wikipedia. They even defined what "haha" meant (I slapped a border around the especially amusing part of the ...
That was my first attempt at one of Rand's SEO comics, so hopefully I did the Boss Man proud. I really don't have much to offer in this blog post except DEAR GOD, these social media sites'...
At Voltier Inc viral content is an essential part of our game plan. Here is the first part or the techniques we use and the things we think about when constructing link bait and submitting to sites such as Digg. The Ideal Article: In order to have a successful Digg, you must submit i...
Recently, our SEO company Voltier Inc took on a local used car dealer in West Palm Beach, Florida, as a client. We were hired to bring customers to the dealership through referrals from the website. This is mainly done through leads generated on the website, and interest i...
More and more, quality content is becoming less scarce and the ownership of that content is becoming less valuable. With media 2.0, web 2.0, community 2.0, open source development, and the rest, content creation has become easier and the barriers to distribute that content are eroding away. Content is moving toward commoditization. Moreover, sites that still strangle...
I rarely spend more than 10 minutes reading an article on the web, but New York Magazine's article - Kids, the Internet, and the End of Privacy: The Greatest Generation Gap Since Rock and Roll - was well worth the 8 pages and 20 minutes. The crux of the piece centers on how the desire for celebrity has eclipsed the issue of privacy in my generation and those behind me:...
... and here I am in Seattle. No great arches. No grand museums, galleries or cathedrals. Only one iconic tower. While Scott and Rebecca have been drinking with SEOs in London and Chunneling it to Paris, Jeff, Matt and I have been sitting in our office, glaring glumly at a Western Washington sky that was blue this morning and is now pissing down with rain.
In our second VidCast installment, Team SEOmoz discusses the pros and cons of Digg vs. Reddit and who we think will eventually dominate the social media space....
We recently bought a video camera and played around yesterday with some video shooting. Luckily, Scott, our resident former-Hollywooder, was able to convert the video into something we can put on the blog: ...
Our readers have done a great job of nominating websites for our 2007 Web 2.0 Awards, but I wanted to remind you all that today is the last day that we'll accept submissions for the awards. Because being strict with deadlines is fun when you're the one implementing the deadline, we won't accept any submissions that arrive after midnight tonight, Pacific time. So this is the last call to arms: get ...
I would start this post with the customary "I'm sorry for using the phrase Web 2.0" apology, but everyone who's ever used the term has already groveled to the 2.0 haters. It's that time of year again, folks. I have been charged with organizing the second annual Web 2.0 Awards.Last year, the Awards began as little more than a pet pro...
With predictions of Digg's fall this year rampant in 2006 roundup posts, I figured I'd jump in and give my $0.02. #1 - Digg will remain popular with their de...