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Who Has the Best Link Building Techniques?

Google — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:04:37 +0000

Posted by randfish

I wanted to try an experiment tonight and leverage a bit of the terrific community vibe and willingness to share we’ve got here at SEOmoz.

In the comments below, share your top 3 most bizarre, unique, unconventional, or simply unexpected link building tactics. They can be specific, broad, or even a little coy. The rest of us will go through and reward with thumbs up depending on how�valuable we consider the techniques to be. Then, on Friday morning (the 4th), we’ll give the member who gets the most thumbs up in the comments a free one-week trial to SEOmoz PRO.

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What Do You Expect To “Get” Out Of Image Search Traffic?

Google — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:04:23 +0000

Posted by Jane Copland

At any given time, our Q&A section usually features a question or two about image optimisation. People want to know why their images haven’t been indexed or aren’t appearing for their key terms, even after they have added keywords to every imaginable attribute. Appropriate anchor text, nearby-keywords and relevant surrounding content don’t seem to have made a difference. The images don’t show up. In their place, ridiculously irrelevant things rank for a person’s keywords.
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How to Hone Your Persuading Skills by Reading Biased Splogs

Google — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:04:31 +0000

I was amused and a bit irked by this irrelevant and disturbing spam post from a fluff website promoting Wealthy Affiliate. I enjoy reading material plagued with disconnects and false information like this post. You can really learn a lot from both your mistakes and others’.

They attempted to compare The Rich Jerk, SEO Book and Wealthy Affiliate. Of course, since they are an affiliate of Wealthy Affiliate, guess who the BEST company was? The point here is that they did a poor job persuading me that the three subjects are relevant and from the same category.

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Free Firefox Rank Checker - Check Your Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft Search Engine Rankings

Google — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:04:01 +0000

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Are You Using Twitter Yet?

Google — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:04:00 +0000

While I signed up nearly a year ago, I just recently started using Twitter. As a marketer I find it both interesting and fascinating…as it is more transparent than most social networks are. People often write back and forth using @username when they want to send another person a message, which sometimes draws you into other conversations. And since everyone you follow is someone you know or related to someone else you know it is really easy to get pulled in. And the social pressure of being associated with everything you do (no anonymous domain registration here folks) prevents Twitter from becoming a spam filled mess. Maybe there is some way such a system could be applied to search?

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Web Design for ROI: Chapter 3, Managing for ROI

Google — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:04:31 +0000

Posted by rebecca

In an earlier post I had mentioned that I started reading Web Design for ROI by Lance Loveday and Sandra Niehaus (check out their website for more information on the book). Today I thought I’d share some tidbits from chapter 3, Managing for ROI.

Chapter 3, Manging for ROI, provides a list of considerations and suggestions on how to manage your website for optimal ROI.
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Whiteboard Friday - Using Trust Rank to Guide Your Link Building

Google — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 23:03:58 +0000

Posted by great scott!

This week Rand discusses Trust as a ranking factor: how it originated, what it may look like, and how you can use it when planning your link building campaigns. The closer you can get to major authority sites, the more trust your links are likely to have, and as we all know, trusted links are the most powerful links.
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Latest Firefox Update Causes Problems With SEOmoz

Google — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 23:03:12 +0000

Posted by Fluxx

Starting last night into this morning, we’ve been getting reports of people who have recently updated their version of Firefox to the new 2.0.0.13 release and now get a blank screen when they come to SEOmoz.� We’re still working on what the exact issue is with our site and why upgrading Firefox breaks it,� but we do know that if you delete the SEOmoz “login” cookie you have in Firefox and then try to load the site again, it works.
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I Hate the Advertising Bait-and-Switch, But There’s a Lesson Here

Google — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 22:03:00 +0000

Posted by randfish

I was browsing on Technorati today (mostly because Google Blog Search has gone down the toilet in the past 3 weeks) and came across one of the first banner�ads to have caught my attention in years:

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Why Does Your Search Traffic Suck? The 7 Most Likely Reasons

Google — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:03:53 +0000

Posted by randfish

We’re just not getting any visitors from the search engines…

I probably hear that line 30X or more each week - over email, in phone calls, in conversation, on forums, etc. and to tell the truth, it would be really handy to have a�resource I could point folks for some self-diagnosis. If only there were some type of medium that I could publish on… one that would be accessible on some sort of computerized system… maybe a net of interconnected pages… one the whole world could access… like a… world… wide… oh, hang on�a tick.

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