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Google Earnings Beat Expectations, Shares Climb

Many Wall Street analysts and Google watchers were anticipating that Google might “come down to Earth” with its Q3 earnings today, given the turmoil in the US economy. But in fact the company soundly beat expectations and posted very healthy revenues, driven by Google’s dominance of the only strong segment of online advertising — search. Google ...]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 16, 2008

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Back to Basics: A Look at Video Search and SMBsLike many of you, I’ve attended lots of industry shows and events during the past several months related to search and directional marketing. ...]

Back to Basics: A Look at Video Search and SMBs

Like many of you, I’ve attended lots of industry shows and events during the past several months related to search and directional marketing. What is especially amazing to me is how frequently I am asked about the ‘secret sauce’ behind optimizing online videos for search success, especially with regard to organic search. Truth is, we’ve ...]

Google & Microsoft Share Advice For Webmasters, SEOs

The ever-helpful teams writing for Google’s Webmaster Central blog and Microsoft Live Search’s Webmaster Center blog have published a variety of videos and presentations this week in the name of helping webmasters and search engine optimizers. On the Live Search blog, Nathan Buggia recaps his SMX East presentation on Webmaster Guidelines, shares the slides from his ...]

Giving Them What They Want: Online Video and the Consumer Experience

As we are in the cycle of the presidential election, there have been several high profile examples of how search is influencing and playing into the consumption formula for online video. Two specific examples demonstrate how search either reinforces the opportunity big media has in capturing their share of the explosive growth in online ...]

iGoogle Now Supports Full Canvas Views

The new iGoogle theme just launched, which adds “full canvas views for gadget and support for full feed reading.” In short, the new view places the tabs that you typically see at the top, under the search box, now on the left hand side. It then allows you to add gadgets that support ...]

Headup: A True Semantic Web Search Agent

“Semantic web” is one of those phrases that’s tossed around loosely these days, used to describe just about anything that goes beyond basic keyword search to surface relevant content on the web. But true semantic web applications, those that enable people to share content beyond the boundaries of applications or web sites, are still relatively ...]

Google Offers DIY Display Ads Builder; Appoints Display Ads Chief; Expands TV Ads Distribution

Google has long been seeking to diversify its revenue base and ad products to attract more ad dollars and different types of advertisers. There’s a lot more money, for example, in brand advertising than in direct response. The YouTube acquisition was partly about getting more display/brand ad dollars. Google’s DoubleClick acquisition was also about targeting ...]

Google Android G1 Reviews Flood Market: Mixed, But Mostly Positive

If the G1 vs. iPhone comparison were a presidential debate, the iPhone would have won — but not decisively. That’s according to a flurry of reviews out today in advance of official delivery of the first Android phone on October 22. As with the iPhone, there are many likes as well as dislikes among the ...]

Google AdWords Allowing Gambling Ads In UK

E-Consultancy reports Google has reintroduced the ability for UK AdWords advertisers to place search ads for gambling. In June 2007, Google placed a ban on all gambling ads in the UK, this decision seems to now have been reversed. Blogger, James Little said he received word from Google that this would be allowed and the ...]

Whiteboard Friday - Optimizing Topic Pages

Posted by great scott!

This week we're pleased to welcome Marshall Simmonds, CEO of Define Search Strategies and Chief Strategist for the New York Times, to Whiteboard Studios. Whether or not to use topic pages--and how to use them effectively--is a topic of some debate in the SEO world. Well, who better to ask about it than the guy in charge of SEO strategy for the NYT and About.com, two o

The End of Consulting: A New Partnership & Our Focus on Software

Posted by randfish

Today I have two very big announcements. First, SEOmoz is exiting the consulting business to focus exclusively on our software model. And, second, we have an expanded partnership with Distilled (new US site: Distilled LLC), who'll be taking over many of our consulting clients and opening offices here in Seattle. I'm going to talk briefly about both of these below, then add de

It's a Feeding Frenzy for Keyword-Rich Domains

Posted by MichaelC

It's a well-known fact in the SEO world that Google shows enormous favoritism in its rankings to domain names that contain one or more of the keywords being searched for. If your domain name is a close match to the search keywords all glued together, it's as easy as fishing with dynamite to get on page 1 of the SERPs for that search phrase. While some (like me) might argue (like, against Rand) that i

Senior Marketers Need Greater Accountability

Posted by randfish

I ran across this survey data eMarketer released last week and my heart sank:

This first chart looks innocent enough. It's when you look at the next one (from the same report) that things get

Getting Started Publishing on Google News

Posted by Sam Niccolls

The New York Times, CNN, and Yahoo News each get more traffic than Google News, but in a given month Google News sends almost a billion clicks to publishers worldwide, which makes it an incredibly compelling syndication platform for sites with newsworthy content.

But how do you get arti

Whiteboard Friday - Choosing an SEO Consultant

Posted by great scott!

Will Critchlow of Distilled (who recently took over SEOmoz's consulting business) is back in Whiteboard studios to help Rand discuss how to Choose an SEO consultant--or any consultant for that matter.

Whether you're a consultant yourself, you frequently work with consultants, or you're thinking of outsourcing some work for the very first time, you'll

Testing How Crawl Priority Works

Posted by mgalecki

This 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.

A SHORT INTRODUCTION...

We all know that the search engine robots more frequently visit popular pages, i.e. those that have the largest number of inc

The Elements of an HTML Link

Posted by RobOusbey

Links. We often talk about why we want them and how to get them, but today I'd like to go back to basics and look at the constituent parts of the HTML code behind them. This is definitely a post for the new SEO, or web-developer looking to expand their experience, but even experienced search marketers may want to comment the nuances of some parts of the humble anchor tag's attributes.

Here's a couple of example links; the first is a link

Personalization of Google Results Creates a Huge Advertising Opportunity

Posted by randfish

Like 150 million or so other folks, I spent today watching the Superbowl. As a marketer, it's hard not to pay close attention to the advertisements, and this year featured a heavy focus on sending viewers to the web. However, I was a bit surprised that we didn't see anything like 2007's Pontiac advertisement:

Last Ticket to SEOktoberfest on Ebay

Since I am incredibly lazy - here are the details from the auction for the last SEOktoberfest golden ticket copy and pasted. I do agree with Greg’s assessment of why Rebecca should attend, and will add that I’m expecting it to be a lot like Bavarian Festival in Frankenmuth, Michigan, except 10,000% larger and ...]

Affiliate Summit East and San Jose Search Engine Strategies and IMCharityParty.com

3 Things to post here at Stuntdubl Land. 1. IM Charity Party - Please help by spreading the word. If you were there last year, you know, and can help spread the word. Should be a great time for a great cause. 2. Affiliate Summit Panel of social media for affiliates - ...]

I Love Tools - and Bryan Eisenberg has 69 Awesome Ones for You!

Market Motive faculty Bryan Eisenberg has a great list of 69 really killer tools for making your website better. Since I’m a big tool fan myself, we’re planning a future Market Motive panel to discuss our favorite tools for website. It should be truly awesome - if for some reason you don’t know ...]

16 Things I’ve Learned About Business while Being an SEO Consultant

1. Pay extra for premium domains (if you develop them) If you can’t find and buy a good aftermarket domain and get creative - you need some marketing classes 2. Don’t skimp on hosting Such a painful expensive lesson to learn. 3. Respect contractors, but don’t overpay Don’t ever talk down to anyone you work with, but don’t allow people ...]

Miami Florida Real Estate Agent Needed ASAP

I will just be renting for a while - but I could use a hand on the inside scoop on things. If you are a top notch real estate agent in the Miami area, I could use your help. In return, I’ll be happy to answer some SEO questions, because I’m sure your ...]

A Shift to Online Business Management Consulting - Thoughts on Rebranding in 2010

I haven’t spent a lot of 2009 posting for my little marketing blog, and I miss taking the time to sit down and write about what I’m learning. 2009 has been a whirlwind of projects outside the scope of just SEO, and I’ve realized that talking isn’t doing.� It’s made me realize that over-simplifying ...]

Competitive Back Link and Off Page Optimization Analysis

In seven plus years working as a seo consultant, I’ve learned that there’s only a few things that separate good consultants and agencies from great ones. One of the most important elements to greatness is being able to set realistic expectations and achieve them for satisfied customers over the longterm. In a marketplace ...]

Cracking the Google Algorithm, and Understanding Search Patents with Ted “tedster” Ulle

Ted Ulle aka "Tedster" surpassed a mind-blowing 26,000 posts at Webmasterworld where he has been an adminstrator for years as one of the unsung heros of SEO as a gracious contributor to one of the web’s most comprehensive and informative SEO forums. Tedster was credited with discovering the possible cause of the Google’s 950 ...]

SEMMY for Social Media

SEO Game Changers - Search Engine / SEO History

There is a misnomer in search marketing and SEO that things change all the time. I think I stopped consuming SEO blogs and news sites on a daily basis about 2 or 3 years ago when I decided enter full time consultancy with no one else’s safety net. There was no extra time ...]

How to Source Content on Twitter

With the increasing emphasis on content marketing for both SEO and Social Media, I thought I’d offer some specific tips on dealing with one of the most prevalent issues companies face in this area: long term sourcing of content. While we’ve written about content sourcing for corporate blogs in the past, but this post will emphasize how ...]

10 Tips For Content Marketing Success

As more companies, marketers and industry professionals flood the web with content, the value of those with a true understanding of content marketing keeps going up. More noise increases the value of signal. If your content marketing defines you as that source of signal, you’ll consistently be found, referenced and chosen ahead of ...]

BIGLIST Update: Search Marketing Blogs 012810

Welcome to a new BIGLIST review of SEO blogs. While it’s by no means a requirement for blogs to post daily or even every week to provide useful content to readers, it does take at least 1 post every 2 weeks to be included in the BIGLIST. We’re seeing a shift with many blogs to posting ...]

5 Ingredients for a Perfect Twitter Marketing Recipe

After reading Lee’s post earlier this week on how to source content on Twitter, I started to think about the homemade guacamole I made for the football playoff games last weekend. Stick with me here. With my guacamole, I carefully strategize on the right mix of each ingredient to achieve the perfect flavor and consistency. Not enough ...]

Tips for Promoting New Blogs

TopRank’s recent Blogging and SEO survey of in-house, agency and independent marketing, advertising and PR professionals revealed that 95% of respondents incorporate blogs as part of their online marketing mix. Nearly 88% have successfully increased measurable SEO objectives as a direct result of blogging. Thousands of new blogs are started by companies and individuals each day. ...]

Upcoming TopRank Social SEO & PR Events

Our team works hard to stay on top of current best practices and as a result, we’re asked to speak at a variety of conferences, workshops and webinars. One of the goals at TopRank Online Marketing is to help companies better understand the current landscape of the digital marketing & PR environment. That includes strategies that can ...]

2010 MarketingSherpa Social Media Marketing Guide

One of the most trusted sources of marketing research and information is MarketingSherpa. I’ve been a subscriber for many years and always look forward to the reports on Search Marketing, Email Marketing and B2B Marketing. Last year MarketingSherpa started conducting research and publishing a Benchmark Report on social media marketing. The new Social Media Marketing Benchmark ...]

BIGLIST Update: SEM Blog Reviews Snarky Edition 020410

Welcome to the newest BIGLIST review of Search Marketing Blogs. We have a little bit of everything today ranging from Chinese focused PPC to the World’s Greatest SEO to a steaming pile of SEO Bull$#*t. Enjoy! If you think your blog deserves to be included, then write a compelling and maybe humorous comment below. We’ll almost certainly ...]

5 Ways to Show Digital Assets a Little Respect

Don’t fight it: Blended search results, and hence digital asset optimization, are here (at least for now). Text content may be your SEO poster child, but with images, video and audio content often appearing in standard search results, digital assets can no longer be treated as the ugly stepsister in the online marketing family. Many companies ...]

Two Biggest Advantages of Small Businesses SEO

With search engine optimization, small businesses have two advantages larger competitors often can’t match: creativity and agility. By embracing these two philosophies as part of their digital marketing DNA, small businesses can carve out a search marketing strategy that runs circles around larger competitors. Today, we’ll briefly explore why creativity and agility are advantages small businesses have ...]

Important blog post on Google blog

This is an important blog post. Go read it from the source. Update: David Drummond from Google appears on CNBC to discuss the situation more. Also, Google just made it so that Gmail defaults to https. This means that even if you use a public wifi hotspot, you’ll have an encrypted tunnel for the communication between your ...]

Ways to help Haiti

Lots of people are thinking about ways to help Haiti after their horrible 7.0 earthquake. Google recently introduced a page with a large number of resources for the Haiti earthquake, including the ability to donate money. Also, a bunch of Googlers have worked to bring updated satellite imagery to Google Earth. You can also click to see ...]

Follow @googlewmc on Twitter

Okay, we’re starting to release new webmaster videos. Normally you could follow me on Twitter to find out about each new video, but I’m on a Twitter diet until the end of January. So if you want to hear when new webmaster videos or webmaster blog posts come out, go follow @googlewmc on Twitter (that’s ...]

More info about synonyms at Google

Steve Baker, an engineer in the search quality group at Google, just did a nice post about synonyms on the Google blog. A lot of people seem to think that Google only does simple-minded matching of the users’ keywords with words that we indexed. The truth is that Google does a lot more sophisticated stuff ...]

Google earnings via YouTube webcast?

Huh. This looks new. I headed over to investor.google.com to listen to the Google earnings call. Normally the webcast uses Windows Media Player or Real Player, but this time it looks like the earnings call is being hosted on a YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/GoogleIR instead. Cool. Go check it out if you want to listen along. Added: ...]

PubCon 2009 talk: State of the Index

If you followed @googlewmc on Twitter you would already know about this, but I recently recreated my “State of the Index” talk from PubCon in November 2009. Here’s the video of the talk below: And here are the slides if you’d like to follow along: The talk is almost half an hour, so I hope you enjoy ...]

Keep an eye on changing pages

Google just launched a nice feature on Google Reader: the ability to keep an eye on pages for changes. This works even if the page doesn’t have its own RSS feed. This sort of thing is very handy. You could use it to spot new things on a privacy policy page or watch for changes ...]

Installing Android development environment on Ubuntu 9.04

I wanted to play with writing Android apps on my home Linux computer, which is currently running Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope). These are mostly notes for myself, so don’t feel guilty if you skip this post. - Make sure your system is up-to-date: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade - Install Java sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk - ...]

Improving Arabic searches and talking more about ranking

Moustafa Hammad and Mohamed Elhawary, a couple engineers in our search quality group, just did a nice post about improving Arabic language searches: Our algorithm employs rules of Arabic spelling and grammar along with signals from historical search data to decide when to leave out spaces between words or when to remove unnecessarily repeated letters. Now, ...]

Chrome support for Greasemonkey

Back in December, I happened to click on a Greasemonkey script in Chrome and was shocked that it just worked. At the time, I wrote a note within Google that said Whoa. I just clicked on a Greasemonkey script in the latest dev version of Chrome (4.0.266.0 on Linux). Chrome offered to install the GM script, ...]

Daily Search Forum Recap: October 24, 2008

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web....

IM Broadcast is a YouTube for Internet Marketers

Loren Baker of Search Engine Journal teamed up with two great guys, Jordan Kasteler and David Snyder of Search and Social to launch IMBroadcast, which is advertised as the "first ever UGC video site dedicated to the Internet Marketing industry."...

Recent Google PageRank Discussions & Observations

Michael Gray explains why PageRank sculpting is important. He explains that Google has downplayed the use of PR sculpting but it seems that it's working pretty well for some people. Using an analogy with two very different cars (one, an...

You can download it here.

PropertyTown Acquisition

I’m thrilled to finally be able to announce that we have completed a merger/acquisition deal involving National Relocation and PropertyTown. As is the case with these types of deals, I can’t disclose specific numbers, but I can provide the basic components of the deal:

National Relocation will pay WebGuerri

The Greatest Real Estate Agent in the World Contest Part 2

My original post on the Greatest Real Estate Agent in the World contest generated quite a few comments. A good chunk of them were a couple of individuals talking smack at each other, but there were a few others that are worth discussing.

Towards the end of the comments, Paul posted the following:

Well I did notice that you are ranking number 2 for this contest. So does that mean you are in the fight to be the best real estate agent in the world

The Dofollow Plugin Has Been Updated

The DoFollow plugin found on the download page broke after a recent update. I finally got around to uploaded a new version.Let me know if there are any problems.

The Greatest Real Estate Agent in the World

No, this post isn’t a plug for my favorite real estate agent. This post is about yet another SEO Contest. “The Greatest Real Estate Agent in the World” contest is being sponsored by Real Estate Webmasters. Having recently been released from Google jail, everyone in REW land is pretty excited, so why not celebrate by having a contest?

Upfront, it sounds like a fun exercise, and the prize package is actually pretty sweet. (A free site with lifetime hosting). But in the big picture, I don’t think it’s

The Lenky Related Link Plugin

I just installed the Lenky Related Link Plugin. Basically, it is supposed to work like Sphere, except the links are processed server side. (No JavaScript). I love the idea, but the plugin is brand new, so I’m not getting any related posts showing up. I’d love to take this thing for a solid test ride, so please consider installing it on your blog so that I can make the stupid images go away!

Real Estate Webmasters Banned by Google

I try very hard to stay away from the drama that constantly engulfs Morgan Carey and Real Estate Webmasters. But this one is worth commenting on because it’s such a great example of what not to do.

Late last night, members of REW’s forum started posting that they weren’t finding REW in Google searches. This morning my inbox was full of emails asking if I thought they were penalized. After conducting a few searches on their most popular terms, it appears that they have been tossed in the penalty box. Not only are they not showing up, there seems to be an across-the-board toolba

Looking for CSS Designers

I haven’t had any time to blog lately because I’ve been buried with work related to PropertyTown. We’ve been banging out a bunch of new features, and we’ve been swamped with inquires from agents interested in moving on to our system. All in all, the new year has been good. The only real problem is the fact that we don’t have enough manpower to handle the frontend design work.

We are in desperate need of freelance CSS designers who can crank out quality designs for our clients. Our system runs

social blog roll

Google Earnings Beat Expectations, Shares Climb

SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 16, 2008

Back to Basics: A Look at Video Search and SMBs

Google & Microsoft Share Advice For Webmasters, SEOs

Giving Them What They Want: Online Video and the Consumer Experience

iGoogle Now Supports Full Canvas Views

Headup: A True Semantic Web Search Agent

Google Offers DIY Display Ads Builder; Appoints Display Ads Chief; Expands TV Ads Distribution

Google Android G1 Reviews Flood Market: Mixed, But Mostly Positive

Google AdWords Allowing Gambling Ads In UK

Whiteboard Friday - Optimizing Topic Pages

The End of Consulting: A New Partnership &amp; Our Focus on Software

It's a Feeding Frenzy for Keyword-Rich Domains

Senior Marketers Need Greater Accountability

Getting Started Publishing on Google News

Whiteboard Friday - Choosing an SEO Consultant

Testing How Crawl Priority Works

The Elements of an HTML Link

Personalization of Google Results Creates a Huge Advertising Opportunity

Last Ticket to SEOktoberfest on Ebay

Affiliate Summit East and San Jose Search Engine Strategies and IMCharityParty.com

I Love Tools - and Bryan Eisenberg has 69 Awesome Ones for You!

16 Things I’ve Learned About Business while Being an SEO Consultant

Miami Florida Real Estate Agent Needed ASAP

A Shift to Online Business Management Consulting - Thoughts on Rebranding in 2010

Competitive Back Link and Off Page Optimization Analysis

Cracking the Google Algorithm, and Understanding Search Patents with Ted “tedster” Ulle

SEMMY for Social Media

SEO Game Changers - Search Engine / SEO History

How to Source Content on Twitter

10 Tips For Content Marketing Success

BIGLIST Update: Search Marketing Blogs 012810

5 Ingredients for a Perfect Twitter Marketing Recipe

Tips for Promoting New Blogs

Upcoming TopRank Social SEO & PR Events

2010 MarketingSherpa Social Media Marketing Guide

BIGLIST Update: SEM Blog Reviews Snarky Edition 020410

5 Ways to Show Digital Assets a Little Respect

Two Biggest Advantages of Small Businesses SEO

Important blog post on Google blog

Ways to help Haiti

Follow @googlewmc on Twitter

More info about synonyms at Google

Google earnings via YouTube webcast?

PubCon 2009 talk: State of the Index

Keep an eye on changing pages

Installing Android development environment on Ubuntu 9.04

Improving Arabic searches and talking more about ranking

Chrome support for Greasemonkey

Daily Search Forum Recap: October 24, 2008

IM Broadcast is a YouTube for Internet Marketers

Recent Google PageRank Discussions & Observations

PropertyTown Acquisition

The Greatest Real Estate Agent in the World Contest Part 2

The Dofollow Plugin Has Been Updated

The Greatest Real Estate Agent in the World

The Lenky Related Link Plugin

Real Estate Webmasters Banned by Google

Looking for CSS Designers

The End of Consulting: A New Partnership & Our Focus on Software