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Google's Negative Ranking Factors

You've heard about SEOmoz's study of Google ranking factors, but what about negative ranking factors? Sure, positive factors such the correlations between social media shares and higher rankings earn a lot of attention - and they ...

How to Read and Review Resumes

And now for a little departure from your regularly scheduled SEO posts - for a foray into hiring and recruiting. We have been doing a lot of hiring recently at SEOmoz and lots of people have inquired what we look for in candidates. The truth is, we really try to give everyone a chance, but this blog covers some of the tips and tricks we use to make the process as efficient as possible. If you are hiring, this blog will give you some ideas to add to your screening process, and if you are looking for a job, then you will also find some dos and don'ts to help you secure you next big opportunity. To infinity and beyond!

How to Build Your Own Thumbdrive SEO Browser

Recently Firefox automatically updated to version 5, and with that update came a nightmarish scenario: virtually every Firefox SEO add-on suddenly ceased to function. By now many of these add-ons have been repaired, but at the time I was rescued by a side project of mine – a portable SEO Browser designed to run from a thumbdrive, complete...

Multiple XML Sitemaps: Increased Indexation and Traffic

Utilizing XML sitemaps and sitemap indices is an advanced tactic that we recommend to all of our clients at Distilled. In fact, Rob wrote an exceptional how to post on this topic earlier this year, looking more at diagnosing indexation issues. This tactic is not just for large sites thoug...

Is External Linking Good For SEO?

External linking doesn't sound like it's that difficult of a situation but for many SEOs there's an ongoing debate about how you should do external linking on your website. This week Cyrus, our web strategist, goes over two very different methods of handling external linking on your website. While there are benefits and problems with each strategy, we want to know what method you use and why! Feel free to leave you comments below and discuss what method you use.

How To: Win Tweets and Influence Search Engines with PayWithaTweet

PayWithaTweet (hereby known as PWaT) is a service that enables web publisherss to give visitors content in exchange for a Tweet or facebook share. In this post, I will share...

What Small Business Clients Need to Know About Keywords and SEO

OK, so I've worked-on or managed well over 100 SEO campaigns over the last few years and a common trend I've noticed is that many small business clients don't really understand how choosing the right keywords affects and defines an SEO campaign and what it takes to deliver results.

Blog Design for Killer SEO - Infographic

Before SEOmoz was a business, it was a blog. In fact, blogging is at the heart of everything this company stands for. A blog is so much more than pageview generator. It speaks in your voice, provides a gateway to your community, acts as your moral center and facilitates communication with the rest of the world.

The Responsibilities of SEO Have Been Upgraded

When I started in the SEO field (circa 2003), the job responsibilities weren't easy, but the list was relatively small: Over the next 5 years, those responsibilities increased, but it was primarily in tactical and knowledge sorts of ways. A 2008 rundown might look something like: The last 2.5 years, however, have made for some fairly substantive changes. We...

Mixing Viral Content With Business Content

A site can be a lot like a mullet: business in front, party in the back. How do you muss it all up and keep a site in style? Any given website naturally attracts a broad set of visitors, and herding that diverse audience onto the right pages is a huge undertaking (as you know, it's something to consider when doing site infrastructure SEO, etc.). This funneling gets even more difficult whe...

7 Ways to Improve the On-Site Experience

The best experience site visitors can have is to find what it is they're looking for. They want easy access to quality, unbiased information, they want to compare prices and they want to know if the company, association, service provider or other site owner delivers the goods or services visitors are looking for. Unfortunately, site owners want something else – a sale, an opt-in, a...

Experiments on Google+ and Twitter Influencing Search Rankings

Do tweets still effect rankings? How about Google+? The mystery began on July 3rd when Google Realtime Search went dark. The next day we learned the underlying cause to be Google loosing access to...