The Moz Blog

An SEO Dream Job

While many in SEO, myself included, pride themselves on being independent contractors or owners of small firms (in my case), there are others who are seeking that prestigious, well paying position in the Internet industry that will provide security, challenges and a fun work environment. ...

Let's Talk about Your Workspace

Today I found my way over to some of CNET's more personalized content, a section on home office pohots sent in by users. Of course, CNET offers their own guidelines as to what you should buy to improve the space, and links to the stuff you already have so readers can bu...

The Slowest Loading Community Portals on the Web

One of the largest online tech communities is the world-wide phenomenon of web, graphic & media designers. This illustrative and overflowing group floods the web with portal communities that take 10 minutes to download, even with a broadband connection. Th...

Oodles of Favicons

Although they don't get much attention, to the graphically and web adept, favicons are a source of great pride and study. These little 16-pixel graphics are an endless source of optimization and promotion for an entire community of designers, as illustrated by the Delta Tango Bravo blog entr...

A Few Thoughts on .edu Links

Once again, EGOL from SEOChat has sent in a contribution for SEOmoz.Good .edu links are getting harder to get thse days. Most professors are moving away from .html webpages and into cou...

Pack Your Website Bags

One of the big time spammers at SEOChat - Geoffrey of Syndk8 - has posted a great advice thread on the value of having a quick and easy exit from your website host. Geoff's host caught on to some of his nefarious practices and apparently doesn't approve, so he's been in a bit of a spot. Donna...

Revisiting On-Topic Analysis

Since I'm in the process of re-building the information architecture for two clients this week, I thought I'd re-visit Dr. Garcia's paper - On-Topic Analysis. For those who aren't familiar with the concept behind the research, on-topic analysis is a system that's designed to help you organize your site's content by topic ...

Accuracy of Yahoo! Linkdomain

Today, Barry over at SERoundtable commented that Yahoo! appears to be having some serious issues with how many results its linkdomain command displays. Like Barry, I decided to take a deeper look into the links Yahoo! recognizes to SEOmoz.org. Here are some of the results: ...

Create Logos on the Fly

Although logo design is one of my banes, people still occassionally request that we do it. Lucky for us, helpful sites like LogoYes are great for providing a complete logo at a low, low price, or providing inspiration, if nothing ...

Bum Rush the SEOmoz Tools

We're nearing completion of the fixes, error removals and problems associated with the SEOmoz tools, but we need your help. When the tools get slammed is when they're at their most vulnerable, so we invite you today to run all the reports you've been putting off and see how accurate our data is - some tools are still returning bad results, but ...

New Service for Invoicing

I got a call yesterday from Michael McDerment over at 2ndSite. He's hoping that SEOs will start using their software to manage clients & projects, conduct invoicing and keep track of their work. It's not a bad product, actually, probably wor...

Gauging Keyword Performance

Today has me thinking on the subject of measuring keyword performance. I'm about to begin a relatively large scale campaign on both the organic and PPC side for a client and have wrestled with the neccessary facts and figures to track in order to have reasonable metrics. Here's a sh...