Ladies and gentlemen, another guide has seen the light of day! Hooray! Our newest debut is The Professional's Guide to Advanced Search Operators. Available in web and document format, this guide covers advanced searching and identifies various search operators that can help with competitive analysis, k...

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What's up, YOUmoz! Ok, enough small talk. I'll get right to the point.   I have a 2-page website that I created for the sole purpose of having something to link to from my SEOmoz profile page. My site doesn't really do anything or provide any useful information, but I use it to experiment on sometimes. Over the past 3 months, I've written several YOUmoz po...

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Everyday a fiercely competitive battle takes place online over capturing the attention of millions of readers. As a result the blogosphere constantly changes shape and different players thrust forward as content kings for the day. Lately I have been trying to find out what forces control this volatile scene. I have been looking for recurring themes and hoping to find useful correlations. ...

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As I said, blogging is light this week, but I couldn't help but notice this thread at Metafilter. How can we fight against such entrenched, misinformation and stereotypes? SEO people remind me of "weight weenies" in the bicycle world. Instead ...

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May It Please the Mozzers, I have an update on the Jason Gambert Saga. For those of you wanting a refresher, please see my first post on the internet marketer trying to trademark "SEO" and ...

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No intro, just right to the content: #10 - Jane's been on vacation for two weeks and we've gotten a bit behind with Q+A. #9 - It's the two slowest weeks of the working year (apart from Xmas), and the dev team is buckling down (as ...

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Disclaimer: This post doesn’t include any information about SEO. If you are looking for SEO related content, please read the normal search related posts on this blog. The SEOmoz community has always been a fundamental driving force behind this company. All of you provide the motivation to keep us working and the guidance to keep us on the right track. When asked why I like my ...

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This week Rand gets a bit technical with a whirlwind walkthrough of how the search engine link graph works.  Fullu-qualified domains, pay-level domains, internal juice, external juice, domain trust, etc.  It's all explained in this fast and furious installment of Whiteboard Friday...enjoy! ...

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Stories, news, and other notable items from the past week: Three star links: * Soxialize came out with Tweet Pro, a service that allows you to quickly and easily find Twitter users who share your same interest by searching through posted messages and profiles using keywords you enter. * Richard Baxter teaches us how to create a new page template in Wordpress for social media targeting. Lately he's been providing some solid tips and posts on his blog, so check it out if you haven't already.

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This tip is probably one of the simplest ways to gain links through conservation. A lot of SEO advice talks about double-checking links that point to 404 pages, as these are lost potential. If a link points to a page that doesn't resolve, it's generally accepted wisdom that the engines won't give any benefit to the domain or any particular page. Certainly, with something around ...

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Yahoo!, through both Site Explorer and their advanced link search operators, provides the most robust link data currently available on the web. Despite this offering, and in spite of some excellent blog posts and resources on this subject (1, 2, ...

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One of my friends and colleagues, Chris Winfield, is presenting on how to ignite viral campaigns at SES San Jose later this month. If you're attending SES San Jose, I highly recommend hearing Chris's presentation. Not only is he a great speaker, he knows his stuff when it comes to social media marketing, link bait, and viral marketing. Also,...

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An alternative title for this would be "headsmacking linkbuilding tip #1" but I'm not sure this will be a whole series so I'm going to play it safe with a title which doesn't force me to come up with these ideas on a regular basis. I know, I'm lazy. Bite me! Talking of being lazy - I'm always looking for ways to jumpstart linkbuilding campaigns and cut corners and if my kn...

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What a day! It's our first Whiteboard Friday interview from our new Whiteboard Studios at Mozplex 2.0 (or the Mozoleum as our guest suggest). Who do we have? None other than our good friend and MSN Live Webmaster Center honcho, Nathan Buggia. As many of you know, Live just rele...

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