The Moz Blog

Two Great Pieces from Slate; One on the Long Tail, the Other - Linkbait

Slate's begging for two blog entries with their content today, but I'm going to put both subject in one to help conserve space. Besides, they really don't need link love from the SEOmoz's of the world . The first piece is a review of ...

Technorati's New Favorite Blogs List

Along with their recent redesign, Technorati now has a "most favorited blog list," it appears both on the popular page (along with cool data like the most popular online videos, tags, searches and news) and in its own page as a list of the top 100. ...

Looking Into 103 Bees - A Web Analytics & Search Term Research Tool

On top of del.icio.us/popular today is - 103bees Search Term Analytics, a tool that claims to help: Explore your Long Tail of search and learn about all keyword combinations that actually work for your pages Find out what keywords to use in optimized new content to attract more visitors ...

Top 100 Digg Users Control 56% of Digg's HomePage Content

When folks think of Digg, they're often misled into believing that the content seen on the homepage is representative of what a wide base of Internet users think is news-worthy and important. The numbers tell a different story - that of all stories that make it to the front page of Digg, more than 20% come from a select group of 20 users. Digg isn't shy about hiding this fact, their top users p...

Ten Ways to Take a Break from Tedious SEO Work

I thought I'd hop on the "Top 10" bandwagon and give you my very own Top 10 list. Having researched some keywords for one of our clients for the past three days, I find myself constantly feeling the urge to take mental breaks for fear of being driven insane by monotonous data entry; thus, I present my Ten Ways to Take a Break from Tedious SEO Work: Peer over yo...

All the Things I Should Have Linked To

Once again, I've fallen behind the times in blogging and haven't given proper respect to more than a few sites, pages and people who deserve it. Thus, this token attempt at absolution from the angry gods of the blogosphere: Todd Malicoat went line by line through that "revealed" Google ranking code and c...

10 Remarkably Effective Strategies for Driving Traffic

In the last six months, we've been lucky enough to help quite a few companies and websites drive significant traffic to their sites. Many of these campaigns have been constructed around the goal of building search engine rankings, as this is our primary business, but we've also found that our ability has given us great power in the fields of brand-awareness and marketing overall. Thus, the foll...

Page Strength: One Week Later

It's been a week since we launched the Page Strength SEO tool and I'd like to give an update on how things went and what lies ahead. First off, I'd like to apologize for the downtime on thursday morning. The tool launched last monday and received a fair amount of traffic that lasted through wednesday. Thursda...

All Play and Some Work at SES Latino

Sorry for the delay, but I didn't realize how truly indispensable I was until I left town for a few days. Once I got back it was nothing but, "Rebecca, Rebecca, the company almost went under without you! Fix this! Help me! Where are my yellow Pumas?" Okay, now that I'm done with my illusions of grandeur, the following is an exhaustively comprehensive recap of my trip to Miami for the ina...

MSNBowling in Canada

I know there's some friendly folks over in Redmond who like to read SEOmoz, so I'll make this as short and painless as possible. The MSN search engine currently uses link neighborhoods to judge if a .com site is targeted internationally (like, say - to Canada). So, if lots of links point at your .com site from .ca domains hosted in Ottawa, even if you want to be targeting the ...

Speaking Sessions at San Jose

Good news on San Jose for all my conference considering amigos - SEOmoz will be completely over-represented Danny has booked me to speak on three different topics: On Monday, August 7th from 4-5:30pm, I'll be speaking on S...

SEOmoz's Latest Kick-Butt Tool - Page Strength

Yes, it really is butt-kickin'. The Page Strength Tool is designed to replace the often inaccurate and infrequently updated Google PageRank score in the toolbar. Sure, we don't have access to nearly the amount of data they do and we're not purporting this to be 100% accurate or even a perfect metric for relative importance (though, in ...