Google Sending More Than Its Share Of Search Traffic
Some people want everyone to like them, and this, to be honest, can be a bit pathetic. But businesses may need everyone (or at least a whole lot of folks) to like them, and so Rand Fishkin has addressed the issue of why Yahoo and MSN/Live don’t always send much traffic. read more More: continued [...]
PubCon: Treading Lightly On Link Buying
The dominant search engine, Google, doesn’t have a problem with nofollowed paid links, but few webmasters want to pay for something that brings minimal value to their sites. WebProNews is at PubCon 2007 in Las Vegas, bringing you the latest in web marketing. John Lessnau noted several points about purchasing links during the Link Buying [...]
Wikipedia’s Problems Explored
It’s odd, really – if Wikipedia were a person or animal, we’d be hard-pressed to actually like it, given how untrustworthy it can be. But we do like it, and the site’s popularity gives some people all the more reason to toy with it. Whether you’re looking up simple search terms like “dog” and “tree,” [...]
SMX Social Media: Fish Where The Fish Are
At the SMX Social Media event in New York, Liana Evans, Director of Internet Marketing, KeyRelevance, and Rand Fishkin, CEO & Co-founder, SEOmoz advised marketers to fish where the fish are. And that fish are in "microcommunities," vertical or specialty sites with social networking features. Because these communities are already focused on a very specific [...]
SEOmoz Takes Cash, Plans Changes
Rand Fishkin disclosed he is giving up a small percentage of SEOmoz in exchange for a venture capital investment of $1.25 million from a pair of investors.Rand said in a recent post to SEOmoz that they have decided to seek outside investment for his popular SEO site and services. “We literally have a hundred different [...]
The 2nd Target Audience: The Linkerati
You’ve probably heard about the importance of writing with your target audience in mind. However, if you want to exponentially increase your search engine traffic, you also need to write for a 2nd target audience. That audience is called the “Linkerati”.This interesting term was coined by Rand Fishkin. He wrote a post [...] More: continued [...]
SEOmoz Becomes A Link Millionaire
Rand Fishkin celebrated a big number showing up in Yahoo Site Explorer, one that plenty of search optimization-minded folks would love to see.SEO professional and occasional WebProNews videohost Rand Fishkin picked up seven digits of hot link love from Yahoo. He’s hit the million-link mark after 33 months of blogging. He’s so happy, Rand shared [...]
Kevin Ryan on the Future of Search Engine Strategies
Last week, we announced that Kevin Ryan had joined Incisive Media as the new VP and global content director for Search Engine Strategies and Search Engine Watch. Lee Odden interviewed Kevin for his Online Marketing Blog last week, and today, Rand Fishkin of SEOmoz published an interview he did with Kevin, “The New Direction of [...]
Google Lets The Fox Out
The Google Eye-Candy Jar is officially less full. Webmaster Central’s Vanessa Fox is leaving the search giant to pursue Rand Fishkin a job with Zillow. Zillow is a real estate search engine, one that represents for Vanessa a new challenge in a new space. WebProNews (Mike) just about always manages to track her down at [...]
John Marshall Leaving Clicktracks
John Marshall, founder and CEO of Clicktracks is leaving the company. I learned this today from the Occam’s Razor blog written by Avinash Kaushik. I must admit that I was a bit shocked to see the news. I began my own, so far, brief journey into the world of web analytics because of a blog [...]
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