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Posted by rebecca

Happy June, evvabody! Here’s what happened last month in case you were bedridden with swine flu:

Best Blog Posts in May 2009
If I Could Go Back In Time & Give Myself Some Advice, This Would Be It. If Rand could turn back tiiiiiime…if he could find a wayyyyyyyyy…Rand hops into his DeLorean and gives his 2007 self some advice, including “Use email marketing,” “Invest in your affiliate program,” and “Don’t try to rip off the Libyans.” 10 Resources That Changed How I View the Internet. Danny shares some stuff that’s substantially changed his view of the Internet. (Spoiler alert: his view of the Internet largely consists of porn.) URL Rewrites and 301 Redirects - How Does It All Work? New hire Jen gets all Mr. Wizard on us and gives us a handy step-by-step of how URL rewrites and 301 redirects work, complete with lovely visual aids. Rewriting the Beginner’s Guide Part X: Measuring and Tracking Success. Rand has finally completed the Beginner’s Guide series of blog posts. Now all we have to do is slap that beeyotch together and add an appendix and Bob’s your uncle. Whiteboard Friday - Link Farming. Rand talks about why link farming is bad, m’kay. Best YOUmoz Posts in May 2009:
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Posted by great scott!

In this interview from SMX Advanced 2009, Rand talks to mobile search guru, Cindy Krum, of Rank-Mobile. 

Cindy starts off by noting the excellent SEO Audits panel at SMX Advanced, saying it’s one of the best sessions she’s seen.  Fortunately if you missed it there are lots of great writeups on the session (Lisa Barone’s recap has lots of good links in it).
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Posted by great scott!

In this interview live from the floor of SMX Advanced 2009, Rand talks to Lyndsay Walker from Canada’s Web Shop about Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing.

Lindsay offers some good insight into how SEOs should go about learning how best to optimize for Bing, as well as some of the nice features it has for international geo-targeting.
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Posted by great scott!

In this interview live from the floor of SMX Advanced 2009, Rand talks to Lindsay Walker from Canada’s Web Shop about Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing.

Lindsay offers some good insight into how SEOs should go about learning how best to optimize for Bing, as well as some of the nice features it has for international geo-targeting.
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Posted by rebecca

At the beginning of every month I’ll be highlighting the best content from the previous month. I’ll still be doing the weekly roundups (I owe you guys a big one tomorrow), but here’s a monthly recap of the best blogs, YOUmoz entries, tools and more.

Best Blog Posts in April 2009
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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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Posted by randfish

On Thursday morning (yesterday), SEOmoz reached 2000 PRO members and we had a mini celebration at the office to commemorate.

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I generally avoid taking any surveys and I should have really stuck to that, but somehow email from SEOMoz (or chance of winning iphone?) today convinced me to take their so called ‘SEO Industry Survey’. So what follows is complete waste of time - the survey has around 51 question and when I am through to 35th - SEOMoz survey application breaks apart and kept me showing ‘Recording your answer - please be patient’ message for more than 20 minutes now - effectively wasting all the time taken to reach upto 35 questions.

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Posted by gillian

Thanks to all who played our color-coded badge game, made new friends, shared codes, and hopefully had more fun at SMX West 2008 because of it.

Thanks also to our partners who offer discounts to all SEOmoz PRO members at the Discount Store for their generous prizes.
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Posted by randfish

Following in Danny’s footsteps over at SELand, I’m offering up SEOmoz’s website stats for 2007. Enjoy! And if you’re interested, here is last year’s data as well - 2006 stats for SEOmoz.

Visits

January - 202,622 February - 309,924 March - 283,417April - 280,284 May - 315,785June - 254,604 July - 263,274August - 263,295  September - 266,571October - 312,147November - 285,109December - 242,348TOTAL - 3,279,380

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