Posted by randfish The business of optimizing websites for search engines is an immensely difficult, convoluted task. It requires a massive amount of knowledge, an incredible dedication to keeping up with one of the fastest moving industries on the planet and a ruthless addiction to testing and analytics. Here’s my list of some of the reasons […]

Posted by randfish The business of optimizing websites for search engines is an immensely difficult, convoluted task. It requires a massive amount of knowledge, an incredible dedication to keeping up with one of the fastest moving industries on the planet and a ruthless addiction to testing and analytics. Here’s my list of some of the reasons […]

Posted by randfish Every month, I have at least a dozen people tell me that I need to write a book. "The SEOmoz blog is great," they say, "but a book has the power to connect with an enormous audience," and besides, they’ll continue, "I need something to read on the plane." I’ve finally come to the […]

Posted by GeoffreyF67 Let’s take this from the point of view of a normal person who is just wading around the internet looking for something to read on a specific subject.  We’ll call this guy Bob. Bob heads over to Yahoo (It could be Google or some other search engine) and types in ‘how to make […]

Posted by randfish Just a short one that Mystery Guest pointed out to me in a huff tonight - Yahoo! search team, I think you owe her some apologetic flowers after this one. Her exact words after showing me this search were "do you love her?": "Vanessa Fox Fishkin"? Really? Yahoo!, you’ve gone too far this time. […]

A while ago I did a post about a site that was getting the malware interstitial on Google. They said “We don’t have any bad software on our domain” and I was all, like, “Psst, buddy, check out these urls.” But that’s not really a scalable approach. Now the webmaster console team has added a “please […]

I’m mostly caught up on my feeds. It was relatively quiet the last couple weeks, but I’ve seen 2-3 things I wanted to talk about in the last couple days or so. First, WebProNews ran this post that claims that Google is selling PageRank 7 links. My quick take: when you dig into it, it turns out […]

Posted by randfish The task of corporate blogging encapsulates a plethora of pitfalls. Recently, my consulting work and a number of colleagues have illustrated some of the worst problems plaguing companies who attempt to enter the world of blogging. WIth a little luck, pointing out some of these threats can help to alleviate issues for those […]

Posted by randfish The Public Media Conference in Boston proved to be one of the most unique audiences I’ve ever spoken to. Rather than webmasters and business owners, the crowd consisted primarily of reporters, station executives and public media contributors. These folks share the interests and goals of traffic, branding, influence and connection, despite the difference […]

Posted by rebecca In order to please the masses, Rand once again chained me to my desk and ordered me to do a recap of SES London in an amusing comic book fashion. Thanks to Jeff and his spiffy MacBook (ComicLife yo!), this time I was able to create this batch of comics much easier than […]

Posted by rebecca In about a week and a half (March 7, to be exact), Rand and I will be road-tripping to Portland to attend SEMpdx’s day conference, SearchFest. Rand has reached a near-godlike status in the conference sphere, in that he was asked to speak at the conference and is allowed to pick a topic […]

Posted by randfish There is some darn good stuff to chew on this week. Get ready to put 40 minutes on hold during your lunch break today and read through some of these - might I suggest an order of Thai curry fried rice or some Korean spicy tofu soup for today’s material? Barry has a new look […]

In 30 minutes I’ll be on a plane back to San Francisco. Gawd, I wish they had WiFi on planes right now. Can you imagine 10 extra hours to surf, catch up on different things, and generally enjoy the web? Maybe in a couple more years. Anyway, I’m sure I’ll be doing posts when I get […]

Not so much blog posting this week, as I’m trying to get as much as I can from visiting Dublin. I’ll talk about more later. Highlight so far include - meeting lots of fantastic Google colleagues in the Dublin office. It was hard to tear myself away today because I was having such a good time talking […]

Holy crap! I’ve only been in the UK for a day or so, and I already won their national lottery! They just alerted me by email: Dear winner We are pleased to inform you of the final announcement of the UK National Lottery Online thunderball Programme with draw numbers(#625) 01, 18,22,23,,31 05. held on […]

I’m getting ready to head to SES London 2007 soon. I hope to see lots of search folks there! My wife and father-in-law are coming too, which is practically a recipe for interesting hijinks. I’ve been trying to get on a London sleep schedule by getting up earlier and earlier each morning, and varying my caffeine […]

I’ll chime in that I think Yahoo pipes is a really neat idea. As every decent UNIXhead knows, pipes let you combine small command-line tools easily by routing the output of one tool into the input of another tool. For example “cat census-names | cut -d’,’ -f2 | sort | uniq -c | sort -rg” […]

One of the common requests I hear from webmasters is “Why doesn’t Google show me most or all of my backlinks?” Well, as of today, Google’s webmaster console will now let you see your site’s backlinks. Major props to the webmaster console team for this new feature. A few things to know: - The backlink tool […]

The website for this year’s Superbowl stadium, www.dolphinstadium.com, was recently hacked so that visitors to that page with unpatched Windows computers downloaded a keylogger and malware that allows full backdoor control. It’s fixed now, but it’s a good idea to make sure whatever computer you use to browse is patched. As a webmaster, hacked sites […]