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8 Web Design Tactics to Help You When You're Stuck

Web design can be incredibly frustrating. You'd think that with all the infinite possibilities of what-goes-where it'd be pretty easy to land a design that works, yet somehow we've all been there: stuck working on a design that refuses to look right. These 8 tactics are what I use to get out of that sticky spot.

Tonight I Proposed to Mystery Guest

As some folks had already guessed, I was the MySuperProposal guy. Tonight, I proposed to Mystery Guest on her favorite show, Veronica Mars. The video is at iFilm - the response should be up very soon (but here's a spoiler, she said YES!) ...

Big News & Little News

Yesterday brought us the biggest news the SEO world has had in sometime - Google's Webmaster Central is showing relatively accurate and complete link data. When stacked against Yahoo!'s Site Explorer, this stuff looks pretty amazing. Webmasters are going to find themselves with a lot more link anal...

Two Cents on Personalized Search

Have you paid any attention to personalized search yet? If you stay logged into one of your Google accounts such as Gmail, your search history will start to accumulate. As your history grows Google starts to modify the SERPs that they send you in ways that they think will be more pleasing. I first noticed this a few days ago when Google seemed to know which site belonged to me in the SERPs....

SEOmoz VidCast 2 - Digg vs Reddit

In our second VidCast installment, Team SEOmoz discusses the pros and cons of Digg vs. Reddit and who we think will eventually dominate the social media space....

SEOmoz V3 Podcast

This is a podcast highlighting all the new stuff we've added to SEOmoz with the launch of our new site. I tried to cover all the new features we added, including explaining MozPoints and the details of our premium membership. SEOmoz Version 3 - New Bells and Whistles ...

Taking Advantage of Google News

Google News can be a powerful tool for finding super targeted websites to get amazing traffic from. I know I am not alone when looking for places with great authority to send me traffic so, I think this tip could be beneficial for those frustrated with figuring out great places to get started with press.I am not taking anything away from the typical PR sites like ...

Guillaume's Round-Up of SEOmoz's Best SEO Training Posts - Part 1

I just spent the last 5 hours going through 30-35% of the entire SEOmoz posts because we're training new interns here, and I wanted them to get a good idea of the whole concept of SEO, some known people, and I basically went through the last 600 articles published by SEOmoz, as well as a few other sources. This is like the wrap up of the most insightfuls only SEO related posts in the ...

WikiLobbying - Stephen Colbert Covers Wikipedia Marketing

I don't really need to say anything here - Colbert's covered it all: The video embed system doesn't work so cl...

Online Advertising Needs to Evolve

Jeff, Scott and I had a lengthy, post-work discussion today about online advertising today. We discussed the usual issues: The more you use the web, the more immune you are to advertising AdSense (and YPN) prey on the naivete of users - savvy visitors don't click these It's very, very hard to find a good advertising model on the web ...

Elite Retreat & Competition

The team behind the Elite Retreat conference series has been diligently requesting some press coverage of their San Francisco event in March. I have to say that I'm extremely impressed to hear that they've recruited Guy Kawasaki to speak, and certainly the speakers themselves (Aaron Wall, Darren ...

A Visit to Google Kirkland

Danny Sullivan was in town over the weekend and on Saturday night, Vanessa Fox from Sitemaps invited Mystery Guest and me over to Google's Kirkland offices. We had a ton of fun and got to meet some new (and very friendly) Googlers. Just a few photos: ...