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The SEOmoz Office Gets a New Do

As you may have heard, SEOmoz has moved offices (woo hoo!). So we thought it would be nice to take you on a tour of our new digs. We're quite proud that we outgrew the old space and needed a bigger place. Pleas follow along as I take you on a tour of the new office. First, as you first step out of the elevator you may think, "Wow, this really is a cool space." But then...

Are Webmasters Using Canonical URL Tags, Nofollows? The Latest Linkscape Update Has the Data

It's an exciting day at SEOmoz - Linkscape's index has updated with fresh data crawled in the past 30 days. This update also gives us a chance to show off lots of interesting data points around the web's usage of search-specific tags and directives. Let's dive in!

Linkscape Index Update and a Peek Behind the Curtains

Last week we updated the Linkscape index, and we've been doing it again this week. As I've pointed out in the past, up-to-date data is critical. So we're pushing everyone around here just about as hard as we can to p...

Double Your Fun with Double the SEOmoz API

I know, I promised a Linkscape update by last week. And I missed it. But there's an update today! Do you forgive me? No? Not enough? Well how about doubling the volume of data available in our free API? You might have gotten a totally awesome email last week announcing that the fr...

Managing SEO Campaigns in Declining Industries

A site's organic traffic may drop because it is performing poorly compared to it's industry competitors, or the whole industry may be suffering from a slow down of consumer demand in that niche. In this post I recommend some metrics that can be tracked to benchmark your site against competitors (independent of market behaviour) and to check the health of the industry. I'll then make suggestions for finding opportunities to slow or reverse the trend of dropping traffic. For the benefit of the time-poor, the post ends with a three point checklist / summary.

The Freshest Linkscape Data Ever

I'm pleased to announce that we've updated the Linkcape index with crawl data that's between two and five weeks old—the freshest it's ever been.

What We Believe and Why: SEOmoz's TAGFEE Tenets

At SEOmoz, like many companies, we have a collection of internal documents related to our goals with the business and the ideals we strive towards. A couple years ago, I wrote a post about some of our efforts in that direction, but last year, we authored a document called "The TAGFEE Tenets" that represents more about what we want to be.

A Step by Step 15 Minute SEO Audit (A Sample from SEO Secrets)

The basics of SEO problem identification can be done in about 15 minutes. When completing this audit I recommend you take notes based on the action items listed in each section. This will help you later when you do a deeper dive of the website.

Launching the SEOmoz Free API and Enough Power to Build Open Site Explorer

The launch of Open Site Explorer last week opens up a lot of link data, filters, and anchor text to a much wider audience than we've ever had before. In that same vein, today we're announcing our new and improved SEOmoz Free API. Any registered (it's free) SEOmoz member ...

It's Only A Clique If You're Not In It

A reaction to recent accusations in the SEO industry that awards, etc. are only going to people's friends, and how this topic has implications for all of our social interactions.

An Update to Our Testing on PageRank Sculpting with Nofollow

A couple of weeks ago I published a post titled "Tests Show PageRank Sculpting with Nofollow Still Works" where I argued that a test that I had run showed that nofollow was a legitimate means for sculpting PageRank. When I originally wrote and posted the blog entry, I full-heart...

SEOmoz's Venture Capital Process

In this post, my goal is to walk you through the process we used, the feedback we received and the final results and decisions. Fundraising is a demanding, lengthy, emotionally charged process and something that challenged me personally more so than any other single part of my life in the last 5 years. I hope that by sharing my experience I can help others who start down this road and give you an idea of what to expect. The more knowledge you have, the less fear can hold you up; that’s what this post is here to accomplish.