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Whiteboard Friday - Dingo Ate My Whiteboard

Since Scott had to leave early on Thursday for his extended Labor Day vacation to Idaho, he's entrusted his golden video camera with me to produce this week's Whiteboard Friday. This week, Rand sits down with Lucas Ng, who currently lives in and does in house SEO for Fairfax Digital, in Sidney Australia....

New Features: 10 Free SEO Tools & SEO Dashboard

We're rolling out two new features today for our SEOmoz members: the first is a collection of Free SEO Tools for all to use (you just have to have a free seomoz account), the second new feature is an SEO Dashboard for our premium members. Rather than using a ..how do you say.. "keyboard," to tell you about these features, I recorded a screencast so that I could...

WHOmoz: Whatever happened to G-Man and EGOL and 2k....

For those of you who have been following SEOmoz for a while I want to take you on a trip down memory lane -- for those who are new a bit of history. Back before YOUmoz there was a stable of non-staff bloggers including EGOL, 2K, Michael Martinez, Guillaume, and GeoffreyF67 (aka Gman).They made up a strong pool of well-spoken people with very different opinions or perspectives on search optimiza...

Matt Cutts on Nofollow, Links-Per-Page and the Value of Directories

Matt Cutts and I have a beautiful relationship - I bother him enough and he gives me answers to questions that are bothering webmasters. It's a cross between symbiotic and vampirical (vampiristic?). Thankfully, Matt has once again let me suck away some of his precious time to address some big issues. After this, I think I'll let him have a rest and probably go after poor Tim. I've poste...

Bidding on Branded Terms: Good idea? Bad idea?

Here's something I wanted to pick some minds on: Microsoft (Atlas) recently released a study stating that bidding on branded search terms is probably a waste of budget since users intended to go on the site anyways. And they say half of the b...

The Pros and Cons of Public Speaking

I had the opportunity to speak about link bait at this year's SES San Jose. It was my fourth speaking engagement, and I potentially have at least two more speaking gigs lined up before the end of the year (the Shop.org Summit in Las Vegas September 17-19 and hopefully ...

Rand on the Hotseat

Have I been captured by enemy blackhats? Tortured and thrown to the dogs? Or just relentlessly interviewed over email (and in person)? Well, since the first two sound painful, let's go with door number three. First off is an interview on social media marketing, with a few nifty...

I Used to Respect Robert Scoble's Opinion...

Like many fans of the web, I've been a great admirer of Robert Scoble, noted technology blogger and former Microsoftee, since I first saw his work (probably around 2004). However, after watching this bizarre video on how Mahalo, Facebook & Techmeme are going to beat Google in search, I think I'll have a tough time respecting his opinions on future topics. Let me get this straight fo...

Purple Yahoo! and Search Engine UI Testing

Mystery Guest and I were running some queries on Yahoo! earlier this afternoon, when we received my personal favorite search results UI test pages, the beloved Purple Yahoo! Purple Yahoo! is a rare beast, from what I've seen. This is only the second time I can remember being served the results, though I know others have seen it before ...

Whaddya Say, San Jose?

Ah, San Jose. Your city may be boring and somewhat bland, but your conference is always a fun time. Below are the best things I overheard at SES San Jose 2007: "I hate movies where water kills the bad guy." -- Eric Dyck from Neverblue Media "I feel like such a...cool person!" -- ...

Whiteboard Friday - "How to Win Friends & Influence People"

This week Jane Copland takes you through some handy tips on navigating and participating in Social Media sites such as Stumbleupon, Yahoo! Answers, Facebook, and del.icio.us in anticipation of our new Premium Guide to Social Media Marketing. ...

If You Were SEOmoz... Would You Take Outside Investment?

I'm taking a temporary break in conference coverage (don't worry - there will be more next week) to poll some of the smartest people I know (that's you, SEOmoz readers), about an issue that's been keeping Gillian and I up plenty of nights during the past 3 months. SEOmoz is at a tipping point of sorts - we've gone from being primarily a search marketing consultantcy business, ...