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Can 301ing a Banned Domain Hurt a Site?

If you have several doorway/spam domains that Google has decided to gray out the PR on, can you hurt a site who's rankings and reputation are solid by 301ing those penalized domains to the trusted one? This is the question asked by adamclark at SEW. Ian Mcanerin chimes in with some good advice: ...

Build Your Own Search Engine

Xan has a great post on how to build your own search engine. It's not nearly as difficult as it sounds and she notes (as Matt Cutts did in his interview by Aaron) that it will quickly make you an on-pag...

More on the Scraper Sites

I received a lot of private email on the subject of my scraper sites post. I asked some folks and they said that I could share their thoughts anonymously - most are worried about reprisal from Google, though I'm forced to wonder how much the search giant could care about a few grumblers in SEO. "The...

Aaron's Interview with Matt Cutts

This is a totally worthwhile read (if a little long). Mr. Wall (of SEOBook) gives Matt some floaters, some tough questions and some in the middle and Matt answers them all with honesty and...

One Page at SEOmoz out of the Sandbox

I've noted on several occassions that SEOmoz is largely sandboxed at Google. Despite having great, natural link popularity (thanks everyone!), the traffic from Google is on the order of 20-50 people a day, all of whom either typed in 'randfish' or 'seomoz'. Thankfully, at Yahoo! and MSN, the site ranks spectacularly for a great variety of searches (but, it seems that web-dev types don't use tho...

Ranking Factors Article Finally Finished

Apologies for the long delay, but the search ranking factors article is now complete. Thanks to everyone who contributed; it's quite an impressive display of how much knowledge and experience professional SEOs can share when they get together on a project. There are now two formats, one where all of the comments left by the contrib...

Boardtracker

At SEW, Orion points out a great service called Boardtracker that Chris Sherman mentioned earlier. Th...

Press Release Advice

One of the best threads in SEO is Cre8asite's one on Press Releases for Google News. Advice given there ranges from source to source but is all of very high quality, including an actual illustration of the traffic and readership levels that can be achieved with a successful release. While I encourage a full reading, I'll...

Welcome to Keijo Kortelainen

SEOmoz welcomes to our posting team a 3rd member - Keijo Kortelainen of 2KMediat in Finland. It's a pleasure adding international flair to our editorial content and Keijo's first post on keyword research is a great one. I'm l...

Neato - An Anchor Text Analysis Tool from WeBuildPages

Neato is a great tool from WeBuildPages (Jim Boykin & Todd Malicoat's excellent SEO shop). It analyzes backlinks (up to 1000 at a time) and their respective anchor texts. It's actually insanely v...

Threadwatch is 1 year old

It's hard to believe that Threadwatch is only a year old (today). In that time, Nick has taken the site from obscurity to infamy. They've been Slashdotted, added to major blogrolls all around the search and technology industries and created a hotbed for SEO/M and search politics. Congratulations, Nick. I hope SEOmoz can do half as well in a yea...

Simple Regression Tool

This may not apply directly to a lot of SEOs, but an automated regression analysis is what allowed me to build most of the SEOmoz tools' reports accurately. This sweet l...