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11/24/2008
I use Advanced Web Ranking. It does a great job of taking care of the necessary evil of rank monitoring. It runs automatically, has very easy set up, and emulates human search for us unfortunates without a SOAP API. I was checking some site rankings the other day and noticed that a few of our sites had completely dropped from MSN. Investigating manually, I saw this result for "st. augustine weddings":
10/23/2008
There's been some talk in the past year of Google results appearing to be case sensitive. The phenomena appeared first in the UK and as of late in US as well. No, I'm not talking about crop circles. I'm surprised that much of this has been brushed off as datacenters or, perhaps, the anchor text of inbound links, as was smartly suggested in a recent Q+A here on the 'moz.
10/5/2007
I have an interesting SEO point/question. Of all the sites I continually re-optimize to see what works, I have had the most interesting success with the company's site itself. I was trying to rank well for our "small town's name Web Design" or "our small town's name graphic design," etc. But then I decided to see how well we could rank for Florida web design and Fl...
10/4/2007
I have a humble request. Fall has come, so I am back in school for the last year. I enrolled in a magazine writing class because I thought it would be fun. So far it has not been fun at all, but our first assignment is to profile a person, business, or organization. I lovingly think of SEOmoz as all three, in a way, and I knew right away that I wanted to do my article on it.
8/22/2007
Do we always even know? The more I think about the “up and coming” engines, I have to wonder who will be the first genius to consolidate our human desire for getting what we want when we want it with our desire to poke around on the internet. Reading through random articles on Wikipedia is, of course, a very popular phenomena and the entire premise of Digg is built ...
8/16/2007
I've read more beginner SEO guides than I can count, never really being able to convince myself that I'm not a beginner anymore. One thing that appears in a lot of these guides and lists of "SEO Facts" online is the fact that one shouldn't optimize a page for more than a certain number of terms. This usually ranges between one and three. I agree with this if you have free ...
8/1/2007
I know that the keyword meta tag is dead, just like punk rock is dead and Andy Kaufman is dead. Is there a huge, pressing reason to use it? No, of course not. A little research reveals that few engines, if any, even look at it anymore. Every little bit helps, right? What drives me nuts, however, is the common concensus among the few professionals I've met and spoken with on forums that seem...
Freelance writer and editor who recently added SEO and SEM to my list of client services.