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Is Optimizing Photos More Important Than You Think?

A few years back I would go to SEO beginner seminars a lot and try to help out with questions that the audience would have. It was less of a seminar, and more of a roundtable, but it was nice to hear from the people that didn't do SEO for a living. They would dip their toes in it, were generally interested and would ask the absolute best questions to get you thinking. I remember a part...

Statistics: Don't Make These Mistakes

Statistics can be very powerful tools for SEOs, but it can be hard to extract the right information from them. People understandably make a lot of mistakes in the process of taking raw data and turning it into actionable numbers. If you know what potential mistakes can be made along the way, you're less likely to make them yourself - so listen up! Will Critchlow, the co-founder and chief ...

Robot Access & Indexation Restriction Techniques: Avoiding Conflicts

In an effort to get their point across, webmasters will sometimes implement more than one robot control technique to keep the search engines away from a page. Unfortunately, these techniques can sometimes contradict each other: One technique hides the instruction of the other or link juice is lost.

Beating Google's Panda Update - 5 Deadly Content Sins

Was SEOmoz affected by Google’s Panda Updates? It depends how you look at it. Since the first update hit in February of 2011, organic search traffic to SEOmoz has...

Are Word Limits in the Google Keyword Tool Affecting the Long Tail in Your SEO Keyword Research?

Chances are - if you visit SEOmoz on a regular basis - you already know the importance of keywords, choosing your keywords correctly and therefore that keyword research is one of the most important areas behind a successful SEO strategy. The Google AdWords Keyword Tool is probably the i...

How to Get Search Volume Data Straight into Excel [Mozcon Debrief]

Just to say thanks to the Mozteam for flying me over to sunny Seattle, I brought them a new toy to give away. And, it rocks...

Throw Away Your Form Letters (or Five Principles to Better Outreach Link Building)

I'm sitting on an air mattress in my new unfurnished Brooklyn apartment listening to the sounds of the city out of the window after a long day of client meetings. At one point I was thinking "Man I wish I bought that ugly sofa from Ikea so I'd have something to sit on" and next thing I knew I was considering the Tao of Outreach Link Building.

Some Nifty SEO Bookmarklets To Make You More Efficient

Being a chrome junkie and also a keen productivity evangelist I'm predictably a huge fan of javascript bookmarklets. I use them all day long and over time I've built up a few that I have made myself that I thought I'd share today. What is a javascript bookmarklet? A javascript bookmarklet is a small piece of javascript code that you can execute in your browser by bookmarking a l...

What is Google's PageRank Good For?

Sure, PageRank is older than Emperor Palpatine, but a lot of SEOs still use it as their primary metric for link research. Unfortunately, using PageRank exclusively to measure linkbuilding outcomes can yield results as ugly as the Emperor's face. Since Google updates PageRank so sporadically, you may not know the results of your actions for months, or longer. That being said, ...

Post-Panda Content Strategy - Lessons from Magazine Editing

As a one-time editor the Panda update was a bit of a 'Hallelujah' moment. It was the point in time when past boardroom 'rants' actually came to fruition – that content is the ONLY thing of true value to an audience and that its time would come around again. Those 'half full' writers, fed up with watching helplessly as 'their' audiences migrated online...

Are People Loving Google+ or Hating It?

Quick - who am I describing with these sentiments? great, awesome, interesting, cool, better than Facebook, annoying, boring, and stupid...You got it (and of course the title of the post probbbbably gave it away) - Google Plus (aka Google+ aka Google plus 1 aka the Facebook Killer aka that new Google social thing).

How Do I Love Thee #MozCon? Let Me Count The Ways ...

Back at Blue Tent Marketing (@blue_tent) WHQ sifting though my notes, reviewing PowerPoints, and trying to determine what path I want to head down for a recap of MozCon 2011, I realize that the overall theme of MozCon is about getting together as a community. A community of SEOs and online marketers! As I set foot in Seattle for the fi...