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Whiteboard Friday - "Which Way Did He Go?"
Hey Gang, Whiteboard Friday time again and, since Rand is once again out of town, I've enlisted yet another Mozzer to take his place. This week, developer extraordinaire, Jeff Pollard takes us on a brief tutorial of the wild and crazy world of 301 redirects. We get a lot of questions about how and when to use these tremendously valuable little buggers, so we thought it's be a ...
Dominate the Blogosphere the Wired Way
While I was in the Detroit airport earlier this week, I picked up a copy of the current issue of Wired. August's issue focused on a series of "How To's", one of them being "How to Rule the Blogosphere." I was interested in reading what tips they had to offer, only to find out that their ...
When it Comes to Social Media Websites, the Long Tail Doesn't Apply
When it comes to social media websites, the long tail theory breaks down a bit. We'd expect, in a standard long tail curve, that the pink area represented more demand and value overall than the blue area. However, the reverse is overwhelmingly the cas...
Click-Through Rates in the SERPs - What Are the Real Numbers?
Today on SearchEngineLand, I caught this graphic: Despite my great trust in all things Danny Sullivan (yes, I know this technically comes...
Combine & Conquer - The Accretive Powers of Joining Pages Together
Just a quick tip tonight, since technically I'm supposed to be on vacation. One great way to help improve some of your rankings on a blog, content site or virtually any domain with lots of pages on similar topics is to eliminate the keyword cannibalization by 301'ing multiple pages relevant to a query/keyword to the highest ranking page. Here's a quick example: For the query - SEO Prici...Level Up Your SEO Skills With Our Free Training
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When to Respond to Criticism, and When to Keep Quiet
In this week's Whiteboard Friday, Rand advocates responding to the online criticism that comes your way, usually via forums and blogs. He talks about politely taking responsibility for the things you've done wrong and equally politely trying to explain your position.
Whiteboard Friday - "Whatchu Talkin Bout?"
Hey Gang, Rand's back briefly to give a quick Whiteboard Friday lesson in reputation management. Following his directory smackdown a couple of weeks ago following the release of the Premium Link Directory, we caught some heat in the forums (albeit largely ...
Sexiest man in SEO
Recently I was doing some localised keyword research targeting my home-town of Brisbane Australia. Whilst going through some of the search results, I came across a guy who was attempting to rank for the term 'Best looking man in Brisbane'.I thought that this was pretty entertaining and thought that I'd go one better and attempt to rank for 'Sexiest man in Brisbane...
Answers to Ten SEO Questions & Some New Questions from Danny Sullivan
It looks like our ten questions post was a hit. To follow up, our own, intrepid point man, Scott Willoughby, will be crafting an advanced test/quiz on many different SEO topics - some fun, some serious - and should have it launched in the next 3-4 weeks. Await with bated breath (I know I am) And now, the answers to last night's SEO questions: What four search engines ...
Apparently I Work for Google
...at least, according to my relatives I do. I'm in Michigan right now. Hot, humid, flat, skinny tree'd, built Ford (or GM, or Chrysler) tough Michigan. I was born and raised here, but moved to Seattle for college, where I fell in love with the Emerald City and got a pretty sweet internship-turned-job working at the Moz Plex. Still, like a good daughter/sister/niece, I try to visit the Mother Land...