My site has been acting a little slow and weird today. I checked my logs, and I’m seeing a lot of GET requests causing strange errors. Most of the requests have escaped Unicode characters, but they don’t appear valid. Sorry that the site is kinda slow; I’m going to be away from the computer until […]

I upgraded my WordPress installation from 2.0.x to 2.1.x tonight, and I’m a little grumpy. Autosave is great and all, but does upgrading WordPress have to be so much of a hassle? The official way to upgrade is to unpack the latest zip over top of your current installation, which seems like a recipe for […]

A Blockbuster employee uncovered a possible new XBox 360 game called Beautiful Katamari Damacy, and the date October 19th, 2007 is mentioned. Oh please, let this be real. (via GameSpot). Published by Matt CuttsContinue reading: New Katamari game?

If you blog, you should get the Linkify bookmarklet that Laurence Gonsalves wrote. How does it work? It’s an easy 2 step process: 1. Drag the Linkify bookmarket to your personal toolbar. 2. Dang! There is no step 2! Sorry about that. I, um, got mixed up. There’s just one step. Now how do you use it? Well, see […]

Posted by great scott! Fridays come so quickly around here, especially when Rand’s been in Munich.  Nonetheless, we’ve got a story and we’re stickin’ to it: new Whiteboard Friday videos EVERY Friday! This week, as a follow up to this morning’s blog post, Rand discusses a great example of Meta Description Tags as the big lure on […]

Posted by Oatmeal We’ve added a new feature for premium members: SEO Tips and Tricks.  It’s nothing earth-shatteringly huge, just a simple list of SEO tips, tricks, and bits of industry knowledge that we don’t make publicly available.  The list will be updated fairly regularly and when a new tip is published you’ll notice a  New […]

Tonight I went to a meet-up of Bay Area Blawgers (a blawger is a law blogger). Why did I go to this, when I normally don’t do blogger meet-up kinda stuff and don’t know much about law? Well, the get together was just a little down the road at Santa Clara University. And the shindig […]

Posted by randfish Back to basics time this Friday, and this time, it’s all about the only meta tag that still has relevance; the meta description tag. Meta descriptions have three primary uses: To describe the content of the page accurately and succinctly To serve as a short, text "advertisement" to click on your results in the search […]

Posted by randfish Sure, Wikipedia’s done away with live external links, limiting some of their value to SEOs (and making me a much happier person), but there’s still an enormous amount of reputation management and links-for-traffic opportunities. Luckily, I’ve got a not-so-secret formula for how to add content and make changes to Wikipedia ethically and legitimately. But, […]

Posted by Oatmeal I needed a tool that quickly tells me what page of search results a URL ranks on at Google for a specific keyword.   It didn’t need any advanced features or complicated options, just something where if I was visiting a page I could hit a button and instantly find out where it ranks […]

Posted by randfish Tons and tons of interesting news to report from the last couple weeks, and rather than just report, I’m going to go ahead and give my opinions, too. Search Engine Popularity Ratings - No one really knows what the search engine market share is, not Comscore, not Neilsen, not Hitwise. If they really managed […]

Hey everybody, I talked about my travel plans earlier this year and wanted to give you a quick update. I’m staying at home for SES NYC 2007, still planning on taking a fair chunk of May off, and planning to hit the Search Marketing Expo (SMX) conference in June. Why am I skipping SES NYC? Well, […]

Posted by rebecca A few months back I wrote a post about female bloggers, and how I don’t get shaken up or outraged about the imbalance between female bloggers and male bloggers in the tech/SEO sphere. For the most part, I still stand by what I wrote, but today I’m going to (sort of) eat my […]

It’s almost not worth mentioning, but I know one website noticed this, so I’ll talk about it. Last week there was an update to how we canonicalize a small number of urls. What is “canonicalization” again? Read this previous post, or see this post by John Andrews to see all the ways that you can […]

Posted by Oatmeal I don’t normally cross-post blog entries, but I figured this one was appropriate for the SEOmoz crowd.  About two weeks ago I made a couple funny sketches of what social media websites would look like if they were all sitting around together. Social Media Websites in Illustrated Form.  If you haven’t already seen it […]

Posted by randfish On Friday evening, I hopped a flight from Seattle to Copenhagen, then Copenhagen to Munich, arriving Saturday around 5:00pm. Munich’s a gorgeous city, and one of Germany’s friendliest, a fact I’ve proven to myself by stopping most of the town’s population to randomly ask for directions (impressive, since I’ve only been here 48 […]

North Carolina got knocked out of the 2007 NCAA basketball tournament by Georgetown today. The Hoyas played well, so I don’t begrudge them the win. My usual litmus test for a good tournament is “Did one of my teams make it to the Final Four?” Kentucky got knocked out in the second round, but Kansas had […]

(Thanks to SEW for reminding me that I meant to write about this.) Google recently introduced another nice piece of flair: a “Blog Bar” that lets you pick keywords, and then rotates through relevant posts by fading new links in and out. You can see it in action over on this post by Mark Lucovsky. You […]

Posted by JaneCopland 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 […]

Posted by great scott! Well folks, you asked for it, you got it: After last Friday’s vidcast about cloaking was such a big hit, "Whiteboard Friday" is going to be a regular feature.  This week, following in the footsteps of Rand’s multiple posts about attracting the Linkerati, we’re bringing you a concise video recap of why targeting […]

Posted by randfish Brandon Hopkins, who runs a blog on search & webmastering, emailed me earlier this week to ask for my opinion on an article of his. Here’s what I wrote back: I doubt you’ve got a shot at Digg-bait; it’s too SEO focused and will get buried instantly. I’m not sure I’d even submit it […]

A little while ago, Ionut noticed that Google Video added a “Blog Buzz” section to its front page. The Blog Buzz shows videos that bloggers have been talking about and linking to recently. So for example when The Lisa does a Friday Recap and links to this “Zeroes” parody of Heroes, our blogsearch team takes that […]

When referring to those little widgets like MyBlogLog that spruce up a page, do you say “flair” or “flare”? The first place I heard the term was Office Space, and they call it flair: Peter: What are pieces of flair? Joanna: That’s where you know, suspenders and buttons and all sorts of stuff. We’re, uh, we’re actually […]

Posted by rebecca It’s been about a month and a half since our new site launch, meaning that we’ve received nearly 2 months’ worth of YOUmoz submissions (160, to be exact, with 94 entries published). A little over half of the submissions we received got published, but how did we decide what to publish and what […]

Posted by randfish This week, I’ve authored several posts on appealing to those folks who provide natural links and those who link due to successful viral marketing campaigns (linkbait): The Secret to Ranking at the Search Engines (on why appealing to link-savvy demographics is important) Creating Content that Appeals to a Link-Savvy Audience (on topic foci that can draw […]

Posted by Fluxx Per some recent suggestions, I’ve decided to elaborate a little more about some of the things I learned at the SXSWi panels.  First up: the keynote by Kathy Sierra of the Creating Passionate Users blog.  Of course I can’t recreate Kathy’s talk or her immense knowledge on the subject, but I can give […]

Posted by randfish On Monday, Brian Provost at ScoreBoard Media Group authored a post called - The First Question You Should Ask Your SEO Consultant. Brian’s exceptionally good at expressing himself, so I won’t paraphrase: “If you can rank a site in lucrative markets, why would you do it for clients instead of for yourself?” That’s the first […]

The judge in the KinderStart case granted Google’s motion to dismiss without leave to amend: The instant case has been intensively litigated for more than eleven months. Under these circumstances, the Court concludes that there is no reasonable likelihood that KinderStart will cure the defects in the SAC [second amended complaint] by further amendment. Accordingly, the […]

Posted by randfish You have great content ideas and the motivation to create, but if your site isn’t link-friendly, you might still be up the proverbial creek. Let me give a perfect example from one of my favorite bloggers - Andrew Goodman (from a blog entry called monetizing your site): I was about to link to this […]

Posted by rebecca I’m sure every firm has had this problem (or at least I hope so–otherwise this post will make us look sort of schmucky), so I’ll ask what’s been on the Mozzers’ minds lately: what do you do when a client doesn’t pay you? At SEOmoz we typically have a payment structure where our client […]