Posted by JaneCopland 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. I don’t know if it’s my fault, but I can’t […]

Posted by randfish Yesterday, in my post on the Secret to Ranking at the Search Engines, I promised to unveil what exactly the "Linkerati" want from a website’s content. Today, I’ll do my best to explain, but first, I need to explain the motivation of the Linkerati and explore their level of influence. Seeing as the word "Linkerati" […]

Posted by Oatmeal The launch of SEOmoz v3 about a month ago was also the debut of a new tool: the Crawl Test.  The Crawl Test Tool is used to quickly diagnose potential crawling issues and give you an overview of your site’s search friendliness.  You enter a URL and the tool spiders that URL as […]

Posted by rebecca Poor Jason Calacanis. He seems to want to be the Ann Coulter or Bill O’Reilly of the SEO sphere, where he’ll say stupid, outrageous things just to get noticed and blogged about. (And yes, I’m blogging about him…shut up.) In a recent post he authored (I’m not going to link to it because […]

Posted by randfish How I despise those awful, cheesy pages promoting the "secrets" of search engine optimization. How I loathe the slick salesman pictured in fuzzy, 1980’s-style photography promising you "the hidden tactics SEOs don’t wan’t you to know." When most search folks think of the "ultimate secret" in SEO," they probably think about one of these: Keywords […]

If you read my blog, you know I’m a Google Reader fan. Reader is pretty good with podcast feeds, because it lets you play the podcast right there in the browser. But that’s not how I like to get my fix of the Daily SearchCast. I like to listen to Danny Sullivan and his co-host du […]

This post has a snarkiness level of 6 out of 10. If your body can’t handle me being snarky on rare occasions, you should leave now. Because I noticed a few interesting non-Google tidbits in search news this week. Barry found a claim that if you participate in Yahoo’s premium pay-for-inclusion program (say that […]

A couple search interviews you may not have caught the first time: I enjoyed doing this interview with Richard MacManus. I still have an email interview with a blogger that I’m trying to finish that started in September 2006, so in general I decline trying to do email interviews these days. Just about the only way […]

I try to be sparing with installing Firefox extensions. It’s easy to get install-crazy and the next time you look, FF isn’t stable and you’re not 100% sure why. But here’s something that I totally want: an extension that converts my currently-open tabs to a list of links. Why? Well, I have weekend-full-tab-itis. I’ve been reading […]

Posted by great scott! Another Friday afternoon and another great opportunity for a quick and dirty SEOmoz Vidcast.  This time around Rand walks us through one of his oh-so-famous (at least to us Mozzers) white board illustrations explaining the justification and methodology behind cloaking (the white hat variety anyway). This is probably a little bit remedial for […]

Posted by Fluxx Guess who’s back?  After a 2 hour weather delay in Houston Tuesday night, I’ve made it home from my trip to South by Southwest Interactive.  And don’t think I wouldn’t bring you anything!  I’m happy to present to you my South by Southwest Interactive Recap article. Overall, the experience at SXSW was awesome, and […]

Posted by JaneCopland Online reputation management is something that most of us have done. We’ve all crafted something on our blogs or social networking profiles to project a specific image to the public. Unless a blog or profile is private, we have no idea who that "public" might include. Our friends and family are the most […]

Posted by rebecca 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 […]

Posted by randfish With some help from Jeff, I’ve re-created a new version of our Recommended List of SEO Consultants, Experts, Firms & Service Providers. The new version features some very nice functionality for folks seeking specific services and price ranges, and provides considerably more information about each provider. Looking through my email, I’d guess that I […]

Posted by randfish With some help from Jeff, I’ve re-created a new version of our Recommended List of SEO Consultants, Experts, Firms & Service Providers. The new version features some very nice functionality for folks seeking specific services and price ranges, and provides considerably more information about each provider. Looking through my email, I’d guess that I […]

Posted by randfish Since Google released their patent application on historical information way back in March of 2005, search marketers have recognized that trends in temporal link and content analysis do have a real impact on rankings. What isn’t quite clear is how this concept functions, and it’s the subject of tonight’s stay-up-until-2am-blogathon. The engines are trying […]

Posted by randfish As always, there’s all sorts of good stuff in the search world this week: Best response to the Wall Street Journal’s odd article on site moves goes to… Lisa Barone - who goes to great depths to really explain the issue. Hey, look at Google, getting involved with German webmasters just before SES Munich. Very nice […]

Posted by randfish Rae Hoffman, in all her brilliance, devised a round-robin link interview on Sugarrae that truly rocks. She asked five experts in the link building space (myself included) to generate their toughest questions around link building and then had all five of us answer each question. The results are terrific. I’ll share some of […]

Posted by rebecca 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’ names are getting totally absurd. Seriously. What happened to the good ol’ days of MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn, […]

This didn’t make much sense, so I put it through my “DaveN English into American English” decoder ring, and it came out as “In MyBlogLog (MBL), it’s too easy to take ownership of unclaimed blogs.” Read this article on Google Tutor for a better explanation. My reaction? Meh. Cause the joke is on you, Google Tutor. […]

This didn’t make much sense, so I put it through my “DaveN English into American English” decoder ring, and it came out as “In MyBlogLog (MBL), it’s too easy to take ownership of unclaimed blogs.” Read this article on Google Tutor for a better explanation. My reaction? Meh. Cause the joke is on you, Google Tutor. […]

Posted by randfish One of my favorite Canadians in search (there’s so many, don’t make me choose!), Andrew Goodman, pointed me to a post by Jamie Roche of iMedia Connection - A ReDesign Worthy of Google De-listing. Mr Roche (who works with the supafly Jon Mendez if I’m not mistaken) had some good advice, sadly shrouded […]

Posted by randfish A writer at the blog, Half Sigma, recently authored a post entitled - Why a Career in Computer Programming Sucks. I haven’t taken the bait on one of these in a while and figured I’d throw in my two cents on why this obviously intelligent, articulate and experienced fellow doesn’t what the @#$%! […]

Posted by Geektime Over the weekend, I posted on my nascent blog about a quality problem I have been having with one of my clients. For the past several months, my firm has been handling SEO duties for Promises Treatment Centers - the Malibu rehab facility. Many of you probably know where I am headed with […]

The NCAA tournament brackets are done and I’m ready for March Madness! I don’t even mind watching Dick Vitale, baby! I went to undergrad at the University of Kentucky and grad school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, so I’ve got little orange basketballs in my blood. I’d love for either team […]

Posted by randfish If there’s one issue that causes more contention, heartache and consulting time than any other (at least, recently), it’s duplicate content. This scourge of the modern search engine has origins in the fairly benign realm of standard licensing and the occassional act of plagiarism. Over the last five years, however, spammers in desperate need […]

Bill Slawski did one of my favorite blog posts this week. He pointed to a Rolling Stone article that discusses how Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails fame is leading several people on a merry web chase to uncover websites from a bleak, dystopian future. Starting from bolded letters in concert T-shirts, searchers quickly find sites […]

I was reading an interesting question on Google’s webmaster help group that was posted a few weeks ago. The question was Is there any official Google statement regarding that search result on one’s own site ought to be disallowed from indexing (e.g. via robots.txt)? and the questioner went on to mention that YouTube’s search results were showing up in […]

Posted by Oatmeal There’s been a ton of buzz about Freebase lately: a newly launched collaborative database of cross-linked data.  I’m not going to jump on the bandwagon and get all crazy excited about it, because to me it looks like another geek-centric technology that is exciting to the techies but useless to 99.9% of the […]

Posted by randfish Keyword cannibalization isn’t an issue that’s in the SEO forums much, nor is it something that many SEOs feature prominently in site reviews (at least, from my experience), but it can be detrimental to potential rankings for several different reasons. First, I’ll illustrate how keyword cannibalization happens. It typically starts when a website’s information […]