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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...
At SEW, Orion points out a great service called Boardtracker that Chris Sherman mentioned earlier. Th...
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...
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...
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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...
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...
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...
mrkryz03 at SEOChat uncovered some great information about a new product purporting to prevent your site from falling prey to Google's sandbox. The methodology is somewhat ingenious and creative - sending fake traffic to the search engines for your site and its keywords, which is likely a component that helps new sites escape "boxin...
Kim Krause Berg posted a hilarious topic over at Cre8asite on the subject of a forum thread on light bulb changing. Naturally, her fellow SEO forum members chipped in with their own personal takes on the post and ma...
With the help of some friends from SEOChat, I've compiled a list of 93 metrics that may play large or small roles in determining how search engines rank documents in a query. This list is by no means comprehensive, but it does offer a great deal of information about each factor, as well as a relative measure of each factor's perceived importanc...
With EGOL and I the loan wolves running SEOmoz, I think it's time to find some new talent to write for the site. SEOmoz, as you know, doesn't deliver copies of the daily headlines (although we occassionally give our take on big news). We're more focused on providing specific, daily tips and information that SEO/Ms and webmastesr can use in their site optimization efforts. If you're some...
Lots of people are doing article trades or posting them out for massive distribution. They do this hoping for a traffic flow and also for the links that will appear within the article or in their signature line.I think that this worked great in the early days of SEO, bu...
Using hex coding of a page's content, some clever folks have found a way to make it appear that they had links coming directly from high-level authority sites. Dannomatic at Threadwatch points this out: A series of pages are created on a domain say ...
What do you do when money doesn't appeal to your link targets. This happens to me all the time - sometimes because they're an educational institution, a non-profit or simply a webmaster who doesn't want to "compromise". If purchasing "advertising" links becomes impossible, there are some great ways around it that I've used successfully. Know Before You Ask - When...