Florida Blogger Gets California Defamation Lawsuit Dismissed for Lack of Jurisdiction
published @ December 3, 2008 # No Comment Yet
May It Please the Mozzers, The world is filled with all kinds of nutty people. Mostly, this is a wonderful thing. But sometimes it's not. [...]
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Benchmarking Your Website: Metrics to Review Before an SEO Engagement Begins
published @ December 3, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Many SEO projects begin with a site review or audit, identifying potential weaknesses and opportunities. However, a great number of these analyses leave out a healthy dose of collecting metrics - a critical factor in helping to benchmark future progress and see how far you've come (and what effect your SEO changes have had). Thus, I [...]
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Whiteboard Friday - Machine Learning
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This week one of our mad geniuses in residence, Ben Hendrickson, steps in front of the camera to discuss something a little different: Machine Learning. Ben [...]
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So What Should We Be Asking Bloggers?
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Last week at Pubcon in Las Vegas, I took part in a session titled "5 Bloggers and a Microphone." Since then, we've heard a fair bit [...]
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Normally, It’s a Good Thing to Get Featured on Techcrunch
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Well, not this time.
New York-based advertising firm MediaWhiz, never one to worry about gray areas when it comes to advertising, has launched a new product today called InLinks.
It’s fairly straightforward - advertisers who want their sites associated with specific keywords simply buy ads. Links to those sites are then added to publishers' [...]
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Which Social Media Platforms Work Best For Your SEO Efforts?
published @ December 3, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The SEO world, particularly the blogosphere and forum chatter, is overwhelmed with talk of how to leverage social media sites for SEO value. Tonight, I'm curious - which types of social media platforms do you actually get the most direct SEO benefit from? Think classic SEO - higher rankings and more search traffic. Which slice of [...]
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Pubcon Recap: Booths, Beginners, and Bashes
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Pubcon came and went last week in a red-eyed whirlwind (I can never wake up in Las Vegas without emptying a half bottle of Visine in [...]
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How to find out what Search engine users are really asking.
published @ November 17, 2008 # No Comment Yet
As the SEOmoz team have been away at Pubcon I've been asked to fill in with a blog post. I'm Richard Cotton and I work for [...]
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8 Ways to Buy Links Without “Buying Links”
published @ November 17, 2008 # No Comment Yet
This post is sourced from my presentation at Pubcon on the Linkfluence: How to Buy Links with Maximum Juice and Minimum Risk panel. Since it received such positive feedback and a lot of requests for sharing, I thought I'd do so in a more referenceable way here on the blog. If you'd like to download [...]
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Washington State Sues SEO Company Visible.net
published @ November 15, 2008 # No Comment Yet
May It Please the Mozzers, The Washington State Attorney General announced in a press release yesterday that it was suing a Redmond-based SEO company, Visible.net. According [...]
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Whiteboard Friday - PageRank Part II
published @ November 15, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Following up on last week's Whiteboard Friday, this week Rand discusses what PageRank means to YOU. How can you use it to your benefit? What can [...]
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Lead Generator MostChoice Must Pay Competitor 4.8 Million Dollars For Creating Fake Leads
published @ November 15, 2008 # No Comment Yet
May It Please the Mozzers, A Jury awarded 4.8 million USD to NetQuote after finding that its competitor, MostChoice, submitted more than 3,500 false applications [...]
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Roundup Thursday for the Week of 11/2/08
published @ November 7, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Stories, news, and other notable items from the past week:
Are you going to Pubcon? Do you enjoy kicking ass? If you answered "yes" to those questions then you're in luck! Rae Hoffman is giving away a ticket to meet Shawn Tompkins and learn some MMA 101 while you're networking in Vegas next week. All you [...]
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SEMNE Event: Inside the Black Box of Search
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"I'm not an SEO. I've never worked at Google or Yahoo! I worked at Microsoft, but not on search." This is how I began my talk [...]
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Customer Service and Reputation Management the Twitter Way: A Case Study
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Last year I bought Comcast's NBA League Pass, which gave me access to the entire season of NBA basketball games. My brother egged me on to [...]
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