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SERoundtable has a nomination process for the best SEO forum. Get your nominations in now and the vote will begin soon. All of my favorites have already been nominated, but smaller forums are welcome to join, too. I notice some well-respected forums still missing, so get going....
Some conversion rates are easy to measure - your site got 100 visitors from Yahoo! today and 3 of them bought your widget - a 3% conversion rate. Others, however can be very difficult to find. Promediacorp at SEW ...
Mark, over at Search-This.com e-mailed me today about a great new Flash-based tool called the PageRank Decoder that SEOs can use to determine the impact ...
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has created a Legal Guide for Bloggers that walks us through the important issues of having a online journal of events. It notes what opinions are legal to publish, what can get you sued an...
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A great tool for those in webdev is Chami's favicon generator. If you're not familiar with favicons, they're the little images that are linked to a website in the browser and appear in the address bar in Firefox and the favorit...
To borrow from the Beastie Boys, Google's "crystal ball ain't so crystal clear". It appears that a successful sabotaging of a website is easier than one might hope. lots0 at Threadwatch points out that using the non-canonic...
Ian (who has now been the subject of 3 posts at SEOmoz) McAnerin asks at SEW if Google should have a .us domain for United States based searches. After all, there is a Google regio...
Ian McAnerin & Anduro Technologies have put together a very clever and useful tool called the SEO Browser. The site acts as an interpreter, giving you an opporunity to view a we...
We are officially beginning the migration of this website to SEOmoz.org and will up and down over the next 2-3 days. Please forgive us if you can't access the site, the tools or other data. We'll be running at 100% next week with a brand, spanking new site and serious upgrades to the speed and ability of the tools, including the long awaited link-pricing tool. Thanks for your patience!...
The cult of personality on the Internet is somewhat lackluster. With the exception of the communities of obsessed fans of web-external celebrities, and a few odd bloggers, the Internet has yet to embrace the American cultural passion of identifying heroes and villains in all that exists. The wheels of commerce continue to turn, however, and it is becoming a increasing trend and even nec...
I've been thinking lately about some of the more obscure tactics that can be used to generate links. These generally include most of the following broad categories: Humor Conflict The Bizzare Secret Information The Nefarious Fu...
The buzz from Henk Van Ess' exposure of Google's evaluation continues to expand, and Henk himself has posted a great deal more information. A visit to SearchBistro is highly encouraged. Of specific note is t...
Donna Fontenot's got a fun little flash movie that we can all kick back and enjoy on our Friday lunch breaks. It's even got that nice, mellow '70s XXX-film soundtrack playing in the background and a few clever ...
Do forum links carry link popularity? Do they get spidered and indexed by the search engines? Does their anchor text get counted? The answer appears to be no with all of the major search engines. This information comes via a ...