SEOmoz Articles

A Conversation With Google’s Vanessa Fox
By WebProNews Staff · April 12, 2007 · 6

Nobody stands up Mike McDonald. Nobody, not even Google’s Vanessa Fox. Back on a cold December day amid the howling Chicago winds, poor Mike sat alone, waiting for Google’s Webmaster Central product manager. Alas, but all is vanity, and SEOMoz.org’s Rand Fishkin stole the show (and the interview).

Domain Names – Choosing Them Alphabetically
By Barry Welford · April 6, 2007

There was an amusing aspect to the Google Search Engine Ranking Factors version 2 that SEOmoz put out this week.

Ranking Factors for Search Engines
By WebProNews Staff · April 4, 2007

SEOMoz just released version 2 of its Search Engine Ranking Factors article. The content in the article is based on a survey of a number of leading and well known SEOs.

Expert Link Builders Tell All
By Eric Ward · March 28, 2007 · 2

I know you have plenty to read already, but…

Rae Hoffman, aka Sugarrae asked several well known link builders to do a group interview on link development. See Five Link Development Experts: A Group Interview. The results are surprisingly candid and varied, yet share a common thread.

SEO (Publish or Perish?)
By WebProNews Staff · March 26, 2007

Rand Fishkin recently put up a post titled: Wasting Time or Clearly Incompetent – The SEO Consulting Debate. In it Rand refers to a post by Brian Provost at ScoreBoard Media Group titled: The First Question You Should Ask Your SEO Consultant. Brian has since published an update titled: Attack of the SEOmoz Clones: More Thoughts On SEO Consulting.

Delisted from SEOmoz
By Brian Turner · March 16, 2007

Rand previously had my company Britecorp on his list of recommended SEO’s.

After emailing him last year, I also became a contributor to the SEOblog.

However, just checked in today and not only am I removed from the recommended SEOs, I’m also no longer able to contribute to the SEOmoz blog – just YOUmoz.

Gain Traction and Authority for Your SEO Company
By Joe Whyte · March 12, 2007

Around the time that I developed Rockyfied Rand had created and developed a system called YOUmoz. Youmoz is a hybrid version of the seomoz.org blog. Over the last 2 years Rand Fishkin and his blogtastic cohorts have been laying down highly informative and education posts on SEO, SEM, Internet Marketing and much more.

Should SEOs Avoid Sitemaps?
By Mike McDonald · February 22, 2007 · 1

Rand Fishkin recently posted an interesting concept on his SEOmoz.org blog about sitemaps. For those of you keeping score at home, a sitemap is a document (typically xml) that sits on your server and helps search engine spiders crawl and index your site. Sounds great, right? Maybe… maybe not. Rand theorizes these sitemaps may actually be bad for your SEO efforts.

PPC Advice – Good, Bad, or Very Bad?
By Aaron Stewart · February 15, 2007

Today, I took a few moments to take in a bit of the current online marketing blogscape. I eventually came across a post entitled "17 most common PPC mistakes web marketers make" by Igor Mor. It was posted on SEOMoz as part of their YOUMoz program where they "claim" posts from others they deem appropriate.

Documenting SES – Comic Book Style
By Chris Richardson · December 15, 2006

Whenever there is a major SEO-related conference with all the major representatives present, you can be sure there will be some good stories and pictures popping up when the attendees get back home.

Advice for Search Marketing Firms
By Andy Beal · November 28, 2006

Back in September, I posted the Top 10 Mistakes Search Marketing Firms Make.

My Time with SEOMoz
By Andy Beal · September 26, 2006

I had a great time consulting with Rand and Gillian of SEOMoz.

Happy Blog Day
By Lee Odden · August 31, 2006

Seeing Frank’s post today reminded me it’s “Blog Day” where you share some of your favorite blogs.

Rand Fishkins Tips For More Traffic
By Doug Caverly · July 21, 2006

Every site owner wants one thing: more visitors. After that, their requests might vary from “more with my family” to “more ice cream in the freezer,” but they can all agree on that one wish.

Two Cool New SEO Tools
By Andy Beal · July 13, 2006

Two cool SEO tools you should take a look at…

I Want my Web 2.0
By Lee Odden · March 28, 2006

I noticed a little PRWeb press release action from SEOMoz announcing their Web 2.0 Awards today.

Ask.com Code Red Stormtroopers
By Lee Odden · February 28, 2006

Last night the Ask.com party named Code Red was full of interesting people and a few stormtroopers here and there.

Interview with Rand Fishkin of SEOmoz
By Lee Odden · December 13, 2005

The next interview for Spotlight on Search is with Rand Fishkin of SEOmoz.

Outranking The Search Engines
By WebProNews Staff · September 29, 2005

Some factors affect a site’s rank greatly, others have minimal effect, and no one knows what all the factors are or how they all really impact a given site.

SEM Test: Can You Pass The Exam?
By John Stith · September 23, 2005

So you think you know a little about search engine marketing? Prove it. How do you prove it? Well you take a test. It’s not a tough test, just 44 questions. Think you can ace it? Give it a whirl.

SEOmoz Invites You To Take SEO Quiz
By Chris Richardson · May 25, 2005

Who is the most knowledgeable SEO whiz out there? Apparently Rand Fiskin was curious about this, so he developed a “tool” where SEO gurus can test their mettle.