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Remember the "Back to Work" Button?
Back in the days before the web, many of the MS Windows bundles games had "back to work" buttons that would open up a blank spreadsheet document on top of the game in order to "hide" a worker's activities from perusing bosses doing their walk around. Hilarious...
$19 SEO - Where did this all Start?
I noticed via my tracking this week that 15 people have found the SEOmoz blog by typing in $19 SEO at Google. I have to assume it's folks who've heard the pun and are curious about how this long running joke began, so I figured I'd provide an explanation (I've got another, cooler reason for bringing it up, but we'll save that for later on). The $19 joke began in this ...
SEO Generations Battle at Ning
Snipermilk put together a cool battle system between many well known folks in our sphere (including yours truly). You can also upload your own photos to do battle - I added DazzlinDonna and pitted her against Aaron Wall in...
Talking about LinkBait
Everyone's on about linkbait these days. First Matt mentioned it, now Loren Baker's got a post and Andy's covering both. I thought I'd throw in my $0.02 real quick, as SEOmoz ...
SEO vs. Conversion Debate Shouldn't Exist
Michael Nguyen, whose Social Patterns blog often has cool stuff, wrote an entry last week that made me wonder about som continuing myths in SEO: Before optimization a site is converting about ...Level Up Your SEO Skills With Our Free Training
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Quest for budget SEO package (part 5): link building
Both Michael and Rand have recently blogged about basic level link building and visibility and I’m about to chime in. Below are my top 5 tips to make link building process cost and resource efficient if you are a SEO services provider ...
Re-designing SEOmoz
The re-design of SEOmoz has proven itself to be a very difficult and time consuming task, as you can see I'm still working on the header. Rand suggested I write a blog entry so you can all see how things are coming along and share in my turmoil. :) Some of the designs turned out okay, others are just plain horrible. I've found my best work comes by accident, so I often just ...
Welcome to our Newest SEOmoz Blogger - Michael Martinez
I want to extend a warm welcome to Michael Martinez, who's agreed to join SEOmoz's blog team at my request. I know. I know. Michael's not your typical personality ...
egoSurf - Scraping Like Mad
Via SEW (via Phil Bradley) - it's egoSurf, where you can use their numerical algorithm...
Brief Contest Update
The v7n...etc. contest is in full swing, with Google and Yahoo! reporting respectable numbers of results in 5 figures. Sadly, the linkdomain searches to the new domains that are ranking aren't quite accurate (I hope). Either that or domain names really do carry a lot of weight in helping to rank. Note some of the leaders: www.watching-paint-dry.com/v7ndotcom-elursrebmem ...