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Cyber Monday

The media's got a name for the "biggest online shopping day of the year", the Monday following "Black Friday" and Thanksgiving in the US. Our two (holiday benefitting) e-commerce sites actually saw higher sales yesterday and today, but I guess we're outside the mainstream. A good article on the subject comes from the IHT - ...

Oilman Wants Your Sandboxed Sites

Todd Friesen, who lives here in Washington (though I never see him since he's nowhere near Seattle), is inviting folks with Sandboxed sites to email him. All of ours are currently out (probably because we haven't taken on a new customer in more than a year), but I wish I had some to send him. I know Bill's SEO by...

SEO Myths - A List and Discussion

Bill Slawski starts an SEO Myths thread at Cre8asite that's a true gem. I've excerpted some of my favorite myths he's covered, but it's the evidence and explanations that contain the meat of this post, so take a visit: MYTHS of SEO: SEO copywriting means writing strong copy, then inserting keywords wit...

SEOmoz and Wired Magazine

As several of my close associates know, SEOmoz was to be featured in the January issue of Wired Magazine (which hits newsstands around Dec. 19). In October, Brad St...

BOTW Blog Directory

I was going to write about this, but Andy beat me to it. BOTW directory (note: they do advertise with SEOmoz) has launched a "free" inclusion blog directory for sites that qualify. Andy thinks it looks good and I agree: As opposed to many directories out there, ...

E-Commerce Done Right at Design Public

I visited Design Public, an online furniture & gift store, on a whim last night. Low and behold, I've discovered that their online presence is doing literally everything right... Well written Title Ta...

Open-Source Full Text Editor for Content Applications

I've been using KTML and Matt's home-written code for a while now with SEOmoz, but I'm thinking of making the switch to FCKEditor. The name reminds me of the London fashion firm - French Connection United Kingdom (FCUK), but it's actually a good-looking system. You can try it for free on this page and download the installation sof...

Andy Hagans on Google's Sandbox

I hate to oversimplify the sandbox, or the solutions required to escape, but Andy's got a good working theory and hopefully we can all put it to the test with our new sites. From Andy: How to beat the sandbox Acquire high...

Checking out BlogExplosion

BlogExplosion is a site that offers services, advice and software designed to increase blog traffic. I signed up tonight and have been checking out various services. There's a ...

Final Weigh-In on SEOChat

I promised a post that offered closure on the SEOChat issue. Here are the list of events: SEOChat admins instituted some changes to the forum software Members began complaining vehemently, particularly with regards to the "nofollow" links on signatures (which one can only earn by posting 100 or more times and spending 90 days on the forum) Admins and some Mods...

Professionals... Naked & In Underwear? Welcome to UPONG

ISOS has done it again. Hot on the heels of SEMPO and SMA-NA, the ...

W3C Valid Code & Google

Good interview with Matt Cutts from Phillip Lenssen at Google Blogoscoped. I particularly liked this bit about valid HTML and rewarding it in the rankings: People sometimes ask whether Google should boost (or penalize) for v...