Posted by randfishStarting up your own consulting agency can be quite a difficult process and often times the most challenging step to your endeavour will be finding new customers or clients.In this week's Whiteboard Friday we will be covering s…
- 2 days ago, 17 May 12, 8:54pm -

Posted by Designbysoap LtdThis post was originally in YouMoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author's views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc…
- 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 10:07am -

Posted by Dr. PeteI spend a lot of quality time in Private Q&A here on SEOmoz, and I recently passed a milestone – 1,000 private questions answered since we re-launched the system (just over a year ago). Not surprisingly, we see a lot of the same…
- 3 days ago, 16 May 12, 7:08pm -

Posted by Carson WardIf the last few months of ranking changes have shown me anything, it's that poorly executed link building strategy that many of us call white hat can be more dangerous than black-hat strategies like buying links. As a result of…
- 4 days ago, 15 May 12, 9:02pm -

Posted by LindsayFriends and I were recently debating the finer points of serving a 410 versus a 404 response code when a brick and mortar retail analogy was born. I hope you'll have half as much fun reading through these amateur comics as I've had…
- 5 days ago, 14 May 12, 9:11pm -

Posted by Tom CritchlowSo here's the truth - I used to suck at project management. But over the years I've determinedly turned myself into a half-decent project manager. Why? What was the driving force?Project Management Is A Tool For Effecting…
- 6 days ago, 13 May 12, 8:58pm -

Posted by MozCTOHello, I am Anthony Skinner, the CTO of MozLand!Many of you were affected by several SEOmoz tool issues that happened last week, unfortunately all colliding into one colossal day of craziness on May 3rd. We want to first apologiz…
- 8 days ago, 12 May 12, 8:38am -

Posted by robkerrySEOmoz and I don't always see eye to eye on industry issues, but I still have a lot of respect for the company. In fact SEOmoz is still the website that I send people to, when they want to learn about SEO or get into our industry.…
- 9 days ago, 10 May 12, 8:59pm -

Webmaster level: AllAt Google we're obsessed with speed. We've long known that even seemingly minor speed increases can have surprisingly large impacts on user engagement and happiness. About a year ago we rolled out Instant Pages in pursuit of…
- 2 days ago, 17 May 12, 10:00pm -

Webmaster level: All(Cross-posted on the Custom Search Blog) Using Custom Search Engine (CSE), you can create rich search experiences that make it easier for visitors to find the information they’re looking for on your site. Today we’re announ…
- 11 days ago, 8 May 12, 9:02pm -

Webmaster level: AllAfter announcing Webmaster Tools spring cleaning earlier this quarter, it’s time to do the job. There are a few changes coming along: an updated navigation, revamped dashboard, and a compact view for the home page site-list.…
- 12 days ago, 7 May 12, 11:10pm -

Webmaster level: AllGreat code has many attributes. It’s effective, efficient, maintainable, elegant. When working on code with many developers and teams and maybe even companies, great code needs to also be consistent and easy to understand. For…
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Webmaster level: AllWe recently updated the Top Search Queries data to take into account the average top position, we enabled programmatic download and we made sure you could still get all the queries that drive traffic to your site. Well, now it…
- 23 days ago, 26 Apr 12, 8:48pm -

Webmaster level: AllCreativity is an important aspect of our lives and can enrich nearly everything we do. Say I'd like to make my teammate a cup of cool-looking coffee, but my creative batteries are empty; this would be (and is!) one of the many t…
- 25 days ago, 25 Apr 12, 8:08am -

Webmaster level: IntermediateWhile maintaining a website, webmasters may decide to move the whole website or parts of it to a new location. For example, you might move content from a subdirectory to a subdomain, or to a completely new domain. Chang…
- 25 days ago, 25 Apr 12, 6:38am -

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Search In Pics: LinkedIn Bike, Chrome Watch & Facebook @ Google In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the…
- 1 day ago, 18 May 12, 8:35pm -

In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more. LinkedIn Bike Parked At Google…
- 1 day ago, 18 May 12, 6:14pm -

Google announced the winner of the Doodle 4 Google competition and today that winner’s logo is on Google home pages around the world. The Winner is Dylan Hoffman of Caledonia, Wisconsin for his Doodle named “Pirate Times.” The Doodle won him a…
- 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 1:10pm -

Microsoft adCenter recently launched an improved version of Microsoft Advertising Intelligence (MAI). MAI is a keyword research tool that helps Advertisers find related keywords and their historical and projected traffic and performance data from the…
- 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 1:07pm -

Google has introduced several new reporting improvements for AdSense publishers, and it has released new research that shows publishers make more money with “smart pricing” — even though their revenue-per-click is discounted as compared with se…
- 2 days ago, 17 May 12, 10:32pm -

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Bing Search API Now On Paid Platform About a month ago, Microsoft informed us the Bing API would no longer be fre…
- 2 days ago, 17 May 12, 9:02pm -

With so many marketing channels now available to reach consumers, what’s a marketer to do? Whether it’s juggling across the new channels like mobile and social, or just trying to incorporate the more ‘traditional’ marketing channels like disp…
- 2 days ago, 17 May 12, 7:00pm -

About a month ago, Microsoft informed us the Bing API would no longer be free and today is the day they migrated the Bing Search API to the paid platform. Microsoft said for the time being, the Bing API will still be free – to try out. But those wi…
- 2 days ago, 17 May 12, 6:04pm -

Our industry’s conferences are a lot of fun, and of course educational. In the past few years several companies, like Distilled, have been offering smaller conferences which allow attendees to get to know each other better and have more contact wit…
- 1 day ago, 18 May 12, 6:00pm -

Since HBO took the Game of Thrones books and created a fantastic show the books and the series have taken off. The show is great and the books are fantastic! I have collected some funny Game of Thrones items for fans everywhere. Oh and remember, Wint…
- 1 day ago, 18 May 12, 4:00pm -

For many small businesses, their ability to make a profit or keep their heads just above water hinges on being able to successfully promote their companies. In today’s day and age, part of those promotional efforts revolve around social media and t…
- 1 day ago, 18 May 12, 2:00pm -

Ed Felten, the Federal Trade Commission’s chief technology officer, recently announced that Twitter is now providing support for the Do Not Track feature. The feature, which was initially proposed by researchers in 2009, was first implemented by Mo…
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- 2 days ago, 17 May 12, 6:00pm -

Ever since Google rolled out Penguin 1.0 on April 24th, I’ve been heavily analyzing websites that were hit by the update (I’ve now analyzed close to 75 websites hit by Penguin).  Based on my analysis, I have written several posts covering my fin…
- 2 days ago, 17 May 12, 4:00pm -

I don’t like trying to package everything that’s happening in our industry into a neat little box, because it’s like trying to describe the cause of the Civil War in two sentences. I’m likely to leave some things out, overstate some factors,…
- 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 1:00pm -

Although Google has already done an impressive job indexing the web and using algorithmic processes to serve users relevant results, they have been concentrating on developing a graph of semantic information and incorporating that information within…
- 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 12:00pm -

Managing Twitter followers can become a time consuming task, taking time away from actually sending messages and growing your influence. Here are a few free and paid tools that will save you time and provide all the important data you need.
- 1 day ago, 18 May 12, 2:00pm -

Facebook is a different medium than paid search advertising, with entirely unique advantages. Learn ways to restructure your paid social advertising paradigm without over-committing to media spend and track results and ROI on Facebook.
- 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 12:00pm -

Facebook shares tips for Page managers looking to increase fan engagement with specific types of content posted to drive different types of engagement. Find out what they learned in an internal brand pages study of 23 brands across six industries.
- 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 6:00am -

Three new Google Search features are part of their “next generation search” project, Knowledge Graph. Info boxes, segmented results based on query context and suggestions based on popular queries negate the need to even click off the SERP for inf…
- 2 days ago, 17 May 12, 7:00pm -

No matter your approach, the mobile landscape is a tricky, expansive space of uncertainty filled with twists and turns that would give even the most solid minded developer or site owner points to pause. Here’s a guide to help you go mobile.
- 2 days ago, 17 May 12, 2:00pm -

You don’t have to be a lifestyle-type site to win on Pinterest, you merely need to make your brand fun and create interesting, shareable images. Pinterest offers other benefits, including social links generated from content shared on Pinterest.
- 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 12:00pm -

Google and the National Security Agency's possibly secret relationship will remain secret. The Federal Appeals Court has upheld the NSA's decision not to release information confirming or denying if they have a relationship with Google.
- 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 6:00am -

Automaker tells ClickZ it will continue advertising on the social site. While General Motors may halt Facebook advertising, according to a Wall Street Journal story today, Ford has a different attitude toward paid promotions on the social site.
- 3 days ago, 16 May 12, 10:00pm -

Cross-posted from the Official Google BlogSearch is a lot about discovery—the basic human need to learn and broaden your horizons. But searching still requires a lot of hard work by you, the user. So today I’m really excited to launch the Kno…
- 3 days ago, 16 May 12, 6:15pm -

Have you ever had a question pop into your head at an unexpected time? Maybe when you’re talking with a friend over lunch, watching TV at home, or reading a magazine on the bus? On smartphones and tablets Google is great for these types of situati…
- 3 days ago, 16 May 12, 5:00pm -

A Google a Day is the trivia game where searching for the answer on Google is not only allowed but encouraged. Since launching A Google a Day a year ago, millions of people have played and learned new trivia facts along with new ways to use Google se…
- 5 days ago, 14 May 12, 4:00pm -

Update 6 May, 950am: We accidentally had one change included twice, "No freshness boost for low-quality content." We've removed the duplicate entry and updated the number of total launches from 53+ to 52+. - Ed.We’ve had a zerg rush of 52+ l…
- 15 days ago, 4 May 12, 8:44pm -

The other day, some students and I were looking at a picture on a website, identified only as a page from an old encyclopedia. We wanted to find the original source, and tried dragging the picture into the Google Images search box, triggering the Sea…
- 17 days ago, 2 May 12, 4:00pm -

(Cross-posted on the Webmaster Central Blog)Google has said before that search engine optimization, or SEO, can be positive and constructive—and we're not the only ones. Effective search engine optimization can make a site more crawlable and make…
- 25 days ago, 24 Apr 12, 9:45pm -

Here’s our latest installment of search quality highlights, with another 50 changes to report for March. We’re starting to get into a groove with these posts, so we’re getting more and more comprehensive as the months go by. New for this month,…
- 46 days ago, 3 Apr 12, 7:37pm -

A few months ago we launched a graphing functionality right in search to help students and math lovers plot functions in an easy, simple way. In addition to calculating something simple like dividing up a restaurant bill or graphing more difficult ma…
- 50 days ago, 30 Mar 12, 6:00pm -

Nareszcie! Jublieuszowy, 10 SEMcamp odbędzie się 5 lipca w Warszawie. Ci, którzy czekali na kolejne spotkanie SEMcampu ucieszą się na pewno z tego faktu. Gdzie się odbędzie SEMcamp? 10 SEMcamp odbędzie się podobnie jak poprzednie SEMcampy w…
- 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 5:45am -

Jakiś czas temu pisałem o wykorzystaniu stron Google+ w promocji firmy i marki. Dziś te możliwości promocji produktów i usług poprzez Google+ się znacznie rozszerzyły, jako, że Google ogłosiło udostępnienie Hangouts on Air (czyli “Spot…
- 12 days ago, 7 May 12, 9:15pm -

Wiele osób dopytuje się mnie, czy będzie kolejny SEMcamp. Oczywiście będzie. W ciagu kilku najbliższych dni podam więcej szczegółów. Najprawdopodobniej będzie w drugiej połowie czerwca. Miał był wcześniej, nastąpiły jednak problemy z…
- 23 days ago, 26 Apr 12, 5:54pm -

Ten artykuł będzie kolejnym z serii artykułów poświęconych reklamie mobilnej. Poprzedni artykuł poświęcony był tworzeniu reklamy w obrębie sieci reklamowej AdMob (reklama w obrębie aplikacji mobilnych). Dzisiejszy związany będzie z tema…
- 30 days ago, 19 Apr 12, 8:34pm -

Poprzedni artykuł poświęcony był tworzeniu reklamy w obrębie mobilnej Sieci reklamowej Google. Jak już w nim pisałem w obrębie “mobilnych” produktów Google możemy wyróżnić następujące segmenty: wyszukiwanie w obrębie urządzeń pr…
- 38 days ago, 11 Apr 12, 5:04pm -

Coraz szybciej rozwijającym się na świecie, w tym również w Polsce kanałem dotarcia do konsumenta i użytkownika staje się przekaz za pomocą reklamy mobilnej. Dużo tutaj dzieje się również w obrębie produktów Google. Jako, że jest to t…
- 49 days ago, 31 Mar 12, 1:35pm -

Wiele osób wspomina mi w mailach, że różnorodność produktów Google jest zarówno wadą jak i zaletą. Zaletą jako, że daje duże możliwości dotarcia do użytkowników i konsumentów. Wadą jako, że koniec końców ciężko podjąć decyzj…
- 54 days ago, 26 Mar 12, 9:20pm -

Wiele osób pyta mnie w mailach o możliwości śledzenia wyszukiwarki wewnętrznej za pomocą Google Analytics. Z tego względu postanowiłem napisać o tym krótki poradnik. Znaczenie wyszukiwarki wewnętrznej Jak wiadomo wyszukiwarka jest jednym z…
- 65 days ago, 15 Mar 12, 10:26pm -

Po spektakularnej styczniowej akcji skierowanej przeciw serwisom kupującym linki Kaspar Szymanski z Google zapowiedział właśnie kolejne działania. Wkrótce dowiemy się kto ucierpiał.A o co chodzi w szczegółach – cytuje post  Kaspara z G+…
- 5 days ago, 14 May 12, 3:30pm -

Nowa usługa Google Drive czyli tzw. „Cloud storage”  wzbudza duże zainteresowanie, ze względu na ceny oraz funkcjonalność. Jaka jest różnica pomiędzy dyskiem Google, SkyDrive Microsoftu, Dropboxem i innymi konkurencyjnymi wirtualnymi dys…
- 21 days ago, 29 Apr 12, 1:06pm -

Dlaczego WordPress jest numerem 1 wśród systemów CMS?Ponad 72 miliony stron wykorzystuje WP, 25% nowopowstających witryn opartych jest na tym najpopularnijeszym w Internecie programie do edycji i publikacji treści.Poniżej infografika autorstw…
- 27 days ago, 22 Apr 12, 10:10pm -

Jak optymalizować strony i serwisy internetowe z umiarem, aby nie mieć kłopotów?Ostatnie zmiany, jakie wprowadził Google w swoim alogorytmie dotyczą „przeoptymalizowania”. Co zrobić, aby nie podpaść Google podpowiada infografika firmy S…
- 29 days ago, 21 Apr 12, 7:46am -

Sprawa gromadzenia przez Google danych osobowych w USA nabiera rumieńców. Firma została dodatkowo oskarżona o utrudnianie i opóźnianie dochodzenia, co grozi gigantowi dodatkową karą i konsekwencjami. Federal Communications Commission – F…
- 31 days ago, 18 Apr 12, 6:52pm -

Polecam 3 proste ćwiczenia oczu zmęczonych patrzeniem na ekran komputera. Są skuteczne, jeśli robimy je co kilka godzin.Ciekawy jest zwłaszcza efekt „hot doga”  
- 36 days ago, 14 Apr 12, 10:24am -

Codzienne, wielogodzinne surfowanie w Internecie nie pozostaje bez wpływu na nasz mózg. Jakie są skutki? Jak zmienia się sposób myślenia, analizowania i zapamiętywania?Naukowcy zajmujący się psychologią sądową poddali badaniom umysły pr…
- 36 days ago, 14 Apr 12, 6:25am -

Przedstawiam najnowsza wersja mojego rankingu polskich katalogów. Pierwszą wersję rankingu opublikowałem 18 lipca 2011. Jednak wobec rozwoju katalogów i zmian w algorytmie Google postanowiłem przygotowywać ranking raz na kwartał. Poniżej wer…
- 41 days ago, 9 Apr 12, 10:23am -

Joe Sinkwitz, znany w branży jako Cygnus, jedyny Amerykanin wśród prelegentów SearchMarketingDay. Kilka lat temu wsławił się artykułem o „myśleniu lateralnym w SEO” (którego tłumaczenie publikujemy niżej), w którym dzieli się dowodz…
- 12 hours ago, 19 May 12, 1:02pm -

Gdyby poznańską konferencję SearchMarketingDay uznać za zbyt kosztowną, to setki słuchaczy londyńskiego SMX trzebaby uznać za skończonych idiotów, w końcu płacą za wejściówkę przeszło trzy razy więcej. Jeśli mieliby być idiotami,…
- 1 day ago, 18 May 12, 2:21pm -

Odsłaniamy dzisiaj tematy poszczególnych prezentacji, jakie ze sceny usłyszą uczestnicy rozpoczynającej się za półtora tygodnia międzynarodowej konferencji SearchMarketingDay.com. Do tej pory zachęcaliśmy Was do rejestracji na konferencję…
- 5 days ago, 15 May 12, 12:35pm -

Dziennikarstwo w papierowej gazecie i dziennikarstwo w portalu internetowym to dwie różne rzeczy. Tak przynajmniej powinno być, bo to zupełnie różne media, o innych wadach i zaletach; konsumują je inni ludzie, w inny sposób i w innym celu. Ko…
- 6 days ago, 13 May 12, 6:56pm -

[Autorem tekstu jest Dixon Jones z Majestic SEO. Prezentacji Dixona wysłuchacie za 2 tygodnie podczas SearchMarketingDay.com] Jestem ciekaw, czy ktokolwiek domyśli się, co przedstawia obrazek po lewej stronie. Czy to ptak? A może pingwin? Czy to…
- 9 days ago, 10 May 12, 4:59pm -

Reklama bannerowa i wykupywanie kampanii na odsłony kojarzą się z początkami internetu i pierwszymi działaniami marketingowymi w sieci. Czasy jednak się zmieniają, a obecnie triumfy święci reklama rozliczana za kliknięcia. Okazuje się jedn…
- 10 days ago, 9 May 12, 1:54pm -

Przedstawiamy sylwetkę kolejnego prelegenta SearchMarketingDay.com. Dominik Wojcik jest jednym z najbardziej znanych niemieckich pozycjonerów, autorem poczytnego bloga boeserseo.com i prelegentem licznych niemieckojęzycznych konferencji. W maju po…
- 13 days ago, 7 May 12, 8:57am -

Klient po przeczytaniu poradnika zarabianie przez Internet w weekend chce zarabiać już od jutra i za nic nie przyjmuje do wiadomości, że pozycjonowanie musi trochę trwać? Jest sposób na prawie natychmiastowe poprawienie przychodów jego stron…
- 19 days ago, 1 May 12, 7:05am -

By now, you have probably heard nothing but the fact that content – content marketing, content development, and content strategy – must be a part of your online marketing strategy. And there are many, many good reasons for that. In today’s post…
- 26 days ago, 23 Apr 12, 3:31pm -

For years one of the key ingredients of successful link building campaigns has been anchor text optimisation. Anchor text or the actual words that get used to link to another page or site have been among the most important ranking factors. Indeed opt…
- 34 days ago, 16 Apr 12, 9:00am -

Last week I saw Will presenting on technical issues associated with SEO. One of the key issues he presented on was site speed. Specifically, the cost of ignoring site speed as a performance and revenue indicator. Will’s own experiences of Disti…
- 41 days ago, 9 Apr 12, 12:51pm -

I can’t tell you how often I have to create embed HTML for images such as infographics. Just to save a little time, I thought I’d put together a little embed code generator based on Gravity Forms: It’s actually very simple, but then again I gue…
- 46 days ago, 4 Apr 12, 8:45am -

Links, seemingly the currency of rankings, and a white-hot area right now what with all the recent de-indexing of certain link networks, GWT Warning messages being sent to over 700,000 webmasters and the ever decreasing effectiveness of low-rent link…
- 52 days ago, 29 Mar 12, 12:13pm -

Speakers: Richard Baxter, Founder / Director SEOgadget.co.uk @richardbaxter Jeff Coghlan, CEO and Founder, Matmi @matmi This was such an awesome session, that I have split it into two posts – first up – Jeff Coghlan of Matmi Jeff Coghlan – Gami…
- 1 day ago, 18 May 12, 3:02pm -

On the second day of SAScon one of the sessions I definitely wanted to see was the Location panel. Chaired by Dom Hodgson from Emberads with a panel consisting of Laurence O’Toole from Analytics SEO, Netbooster’s Teddie Cowell, Malcolm Maybury fr…
- 1 day ago, 18 May 12, 1:18pm -

This morning the nominees for the European Searchawards have been announced. The nominees are divided in 13 different categories, two more categories have no nominees, but these winners will be announced on the awards night which will be held in Amst…
- 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 12:32pm -

This week at the International Search Summit London Webcertain, the leading international SEO company who also organize the ISS, launched the "International SEO School" in Barcelona to give marketers the opportunity for that extra piece of internatio…
- 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 9:25am -

My next session at the 2012 SAScon conference is about mobile marketing and includes Richard Gregory and Ben Wightman from Latitude, Mark Kuhilow from MyMCart, and James Hamlin from Seatwave. Mobile Statistics & Paid Search First up is Latitude’s B…
- 2 days ago, 17 May 12, 2:48pm -

In a Google Inside Search blog post, Introducing the Knowledge Graph: Things, not strings we’re told of a new initiative from Google to show us more information within search results themselves about the things we search for. This is a potentially…
- 1 day ago, 18 May 12, 4:20pm -

Google was granted three different design patents for augmented reality glasses today, showing slightly different looks from one to the other. The first one includes lenses, while the second and third show variations of the glasses without lenses. A…
- 4 days ago, 15 May 12, 1:45pm -

Author Ranking in social media is more than just a popularity contest, and can include things like how frequently an author surfaces content that subsequently becomes popular, topical authority on different subjects, and popularity and influence sign…
- 9 days ago, 11 May 12, 12:31pm -

Manipulative repetitive anchor text, blog comments filled with spam, Google bombs, and obscene content could be the targets of a system described in a patent granted to Google today that provides arbiters (human and possibly automated), with ways to…
- 12 days ago, 8 May 12, 10:30am -

Google published 8 patent applications at the USPTO today that describe key elements of Google Plus and a number of alternatives that may or may not become part of Google’s social network. These include 2 applications on how social connections can…
- 16 days ago, 3 May 12, 2:51pm -

There are some changes coming to paid search at Google that sound exciting on the surface, but may leave many guessing how exactly those changes might manifest themselves. Over at the Inside Google Adwords blog, we were greeted with a blog post title…
- 17 days ago, 2 May 12, 3:31pm -

There are many sites that curate content and links on the Web, including many blogs and a number of social sites that do it through submissions by their members, who can also vote upon those submissions. The inventors of PostRank came up with an algo…
- 20 days ago, 29 Apr 12, 8:56pm -

I was looking at the peaks and valleys of traffic in Google Analytics, and thinking of the Google Panda and Penguin updates, and couldn’t stop myself:Wondering how long it will be before Google runs out of black and white animals to name updates af…
- 22 days ago, 27 Apr 12, 9:50pm -