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Using Google Image Search to Drive Traffic to Your Site
In the search to find the best ways to promote or drive traffic to your site, Google Image Search is often overlooked. While ranking for terms in Google Image Search is unlikely to ever bring you massive amounts of traffic a la Digg or StumbleUpon, the steps to optimize your images for Google Image Search are extremely simple, and the traf...
Are Bloggers More Connected Than Journalists?
Plaxo, a "smart address book" service provider, recently published their second Connected Index, which is a list of which job titles have the most connections based on the average number of contacts in their address book. 15 million Plaxo members' address books were used for the study. Unsurprisingly, talent agents were reported to be the most connecte...
SEO Meetups, Now (Hopefully) Coming to a City Near You!
Jon Payne (if I were talking to his friend and wanted to invite them both to a party, I'd so say "You better bring the Payne!") emailed Rand, urging him to write a blog post about SEO groups. Since Rand's indisposed in China, poor Jon had to resort to downgrading and asking me if I would blog about it. My motto should be "Rebecca Kelley: When R...
Yahoo! Gets Caught With Their Hand in the Cloaking Jar
Two days ago Agerhart.com posted their discovery that Yahoo! was cloaking their Autos page. As one of our resident programmers, Jeff, put it, Yahoo! was practicing in standard, run of the mill cloaking, where they look at the IP/user-agent and serve a different p...
Social Networking Sites Still Aren't Effectively Being Leveraged
...at least, not according to a study published by eMarketer. The article, titled "Search Marketers Seed Social Networks," cites a survey conducted by iProspect and JupiterResearch. http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?id=1004937...Level Up Your SEO Skills With Our Free Training
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Whiteboard Friday - "10 Things I Heart About You"
This week Rand talks about...well...nothing, he's in China. Rebecca Kelley takes over for a sublimely light-hearted Whiteboard Friday in which the rest of the Moz crew show that we can most certainly bring the noise to match anyone's funk.
Roundup Thursday is Good for What Ails Ya
And now, to finish off your Thursday, here's a roundup of various news tidbits that I found interesting: Scoreboard Media Group has an encouraging post called "If At First You Don't Succeed, Quit!" Though it's rife with baseball metaphors, Brian Provost makes a fantastic point--that some...
Happy Birthday Alan
Like most people who have featured on YOUmoz, for me blogging is a pleasure. It allows me to play at being a journalist, as well as giving me a platform to talk about a subject that fascinates me, and hopefully even lets me spread some learning.However, for many people journalism is a very serious issue indeed. The reason I say this is that today (May 17th) is the 45th birthday of a man ...
Censorsed Search Results in China Changing
Si & I arrived late last night in Xi'an, in the Shaanxi province after 26+ hours of travel (which I don't recommend). Of course, I'm already set up online, trying to respond to dozens of emails, despite the us of an auto-responder. I think I'm feeling some empathy with Matt Cutts :) While here, I couldn't help myself but to conduct one of the most talked-about searches in regards to...
Why, Hello There MSN Image Search!
As a writer/editor for Drivl, I do a lot of image searches in order to add relevant, amusing pictures to supplement stories that either I've written or that one of our users has submitted. At first, I would default to Google for all of my image searching needs, but the relevance is often low (and sometimes porn-tastic). Yahoo! Images is sometimes better, sometim...