The Moz Blog

Screw the Sandbox the Jim Boykin Way

Google has been asking for this. SEO has a new angle and Jim (of Webuilpages) is the pioneer. No longer is domain registration part of smart SEO - it's all about buying an old domain and changing as little whois info as possible - preferrably just getting the login info for the registrar. Jim's got a post on the&nbsp...

Powweb.com - What are they Doing?

It has been brought to my attention that a server that maps to powweb.com is doing some unseemly bandwidth hogging. A friend (whose name will remain anonymous) clued me in to the following: Recently a series of bots from Powweb.com have been targetting websites with the sole purpose of accessing files simply to increase the bandwidth u...

Delicious and Digg

Although I rarely point to TW, as everyone here has already read their posts twice, there's an excellent comment on the thread about Digg that I felt worth publicizing. It comes from John Resig, who writes: The two 'Web 2.0' traffic b...

5 Tips for SEO Businesses

Todd has some good references on operating your SEO business and I thought, in the spirit of teamwork, I'd address the same topic today with some recommendations of my own. Below is my own list of suggestions, based on experience (in both failure and success): Don't Underestimate your Value...

SEOmoz Escapes the Sandbox

I suppose it had to happen at some point. SEOmoz is finally sandbox free for the first time since our move to this domain 9 months ago. We aren't alone, either. Many folks had sites escape, and I'm happy for all of them. It looks like our ...

Kim Krause Interviewed by Andy Hagans

Kim's got some very wise words about everything from "party pooper" Jakob Nielsen to the obligation of SEO/Ms to give back to the web. It's a solid read: ...

Yahoo! Maps Beta - Taking Google to School

Wow... I'm incredibly impressed by the new Yahoo Maps beta. Why do I love it? Zooms in on mouse wheel scroll Has labeled city districts on transparency overlay Can show live traffic...

Teens Dominate Online Content Creation

The Pew Internet & American Life Project released a new study yesterday on Teen Content Creators and Consumers (warning PDF). The study has some great information for those of us who have a personal and professional stake in the development of web content. I've pulled out what I feel is the most relevant items for ...

SEOmoz Ranking Factors in 3rd Place

Our ranking factors article from several weeks ago is now in 3rd place at del.icio.us SEO tags for all time most popular. 671 folks have tagged it to date and we're closing in on Vaughn's Google Ranking Factors List, wh...

Smiley Faces Earn Their Keep

I am running blogger on a couple of my sites and decided to try an experiment as an attempt to increase the frequency of my posts being emailed. By default Blogger adds a little email icon at the bottom of each post. I kicked it up a notch by placing a smiley beside it with so...

What should Aaron Do?

Aaron Wall is struggling with the forces of the publishing world, who've re-nigged on their original agreement to let him maintain e-book publishing rights if they take his book to press. Aaron has a lot of positives and ne...

Ask Jeeves Using New Mind Reading Technology?

Last Saturday night I fell asleep on a friend's couch after watching a really funny television program. I couldn't remember the name until yesterday, when a visitor to our offices mentioned it - My Name is Earl. I'm not typically much of an Ask user, bu...