The Moz Blog

Why MSN fails to conquer the world!

One of my biggest rants with MSN Search has been their weighting for physical location of webserver. It is totally incredible and beyond any reasonable measures. Before you read any further, it is important you know some background information. My company, ...

Bad Information from SEO-News

Following Nick's lovely recommendations for community building, I'll be doing a bit of link baiting in this thread. Actually, that's a lie; I'm just ticked off about this article from SEO News' Rob Sullivan about a conference call he had with some Google employees. I'll just refute...

Etsy - It's Froogle, but 10x Better

Shopping on the web has never been cooler. This site - Etsy - is appealing in a way that I haven't seen in a long time. They've combined many of the latest "Web 2.0" trends into the store and amalgamated thousands of sellers into an online...

Bug Me Not

BugMeNot is a nifty tool that acts either as a one-time viewer for content sites or a plug-in that lets you surf through without entering a username or password. It reminds me most of the grocery store checkers who simply swipe the store copy of the "...

Dilbert on User Interface Design

Scottie Claiborne, who co-authors the hilarious ISOS blog and who bought me lunch on her last trip into Seattle, delivers this stellar ...

Seattle's Wong Doody needs Web Site Help

I just joined the Ad Club of Seattle in the hopes of meeting some good people I can recruit away from the tradtional ad business into our nefarious circle (insert devious grin icon). As I was checking out u...

Admitting I was Wrong

It's never easy to admit to being dead wrong, but in this instance, it would be doing the SEO community a great disservice not to make my mistakes public. In a thread at SEOChat - More on Term Weight..., I abuse members of the notion that keyword density can be used to calculate the importance of a term or phrase in a given document....

Happy Birthday to Us

SEOmoz turned 1 year old today. Our first post, way back on October 14th of last year shows just how far we've come. I'm really happy with the way this site has turned out and I have great things in mind (particularly with relation to the tools) o...

Investigating the RedZee Search Engine

As much as I like their cool zebra logo, it appears that RedZee.com (link left out on purpose) is using a slew of bad tactics to attempt to gain popularity in the search space. I haven't personally seen referrals from them, yet, but some others have and base...

Online Sketchbook

Back in the late '90's, I was obsessed with Flash design. I spent countless hours animating text and building organic-styled site designs. I gave up on that a long time ago, when I realized that true designers had something I lacked (namely talent) and that hard work can only take you ...

What a Links Page Should Look Like

The question was asked at HighRankings, but I think it's a great, universal question for site builders. What do visitors want from a links page and what should we, therefore, provide. My personal feeling is that your outbound links should be structured in one of 3 ways: When appropriate, link direct...

Rand, How do I make Link-Worthy Content?

I get asked this all the time when I'm consulting. It's the mantra of the link hungry and content poor and it's a great question - one that's worthy of being repeated over and over (though it need not always involve my first name). There's no easy answer, but there is a simple way I can show you the kinds of content and let you think up your own way to do it. Thanks to our friends at de...