Posted by Danny Dover Update: Thank you everyone for your patience with the video issues. It looks like our video host's CDN accidentally cached a bad request. Everything should be working now! Party on! In this week's Whiteboard Friday I talk about pitching SEO to potential clients and employers. This post describes the common elements that unite the successful pitches I have witnessed and describes how you can use them to your advantage. Also,

Posted by Danny Dover This week on Whiteboard Friday we pull a secret out of the SEO secrets vault. This handy strategy helps you take advantage of the specific types of results that Google chooses for people and company based searches and helps you dominate your brand search engine result page.

Posted by Danny Dover This week on Whiteboard Friday, Rand Fishkin describes the methods he recommends for outsourcing content creation. Content is extremely important for SEO and users alike so these best practices are important for those of us without the luxury of an in-house staff of copywriters.

Posted by Danny Dover Well folks, this may be the biggest tool introduction since Ryan Seacrest started hosting American Idol. ;-( Today we are launching our SEO toolbar for Google's Chrome browser. This sexy beast is full to the brim with SEO insight and time-saving SEO goodness. This free add-on is ripe for picking and available for download right this second. Ask and Ye Shall Receive Whether it's from Twitter , Facebook , email or comments here on the blog,

Posted by Danny Dover Guess who's back. Back again. Danny's back. Tell a friend. )My co-workers hate me ;-p( This week's Whiteboard Friday is about how to get an SEO job. In it, I divulge the secret of how I suckered my way into how I earned this job. I also do the worst impression of my life and finish with a shocking twist that I guarantee you won't see coming!

Posted by Danny Dover This week's Whiteboard Friday features the return of Rand )woo hoo!( and his self declared biggest SEO mistakes. We screw up a lot here at SEOmoz )hell, they hired me(, so we feel it is only appropriate to take this opportunity to share what we have learned in an effort to prevent you from making similar mistakes. SEO is complicated. The best we can do is practice, work hard and compare notes. 1. Reciprocal Links + Robots.

Posted by Danny Dover Want happier website visitors and higher rankings? This week's Whiteboard Friday is about how and why to speed up your website. It is more technical than previous videos so I tried to spice it up with an ode to one of my favorite canceled TV Shows, Pop-up Video . Can't stand the content? At least the added commentary is entertaining.

Posted by Danny Dover This weeks Whiteboard Friday is a little bit different than normal but a lot more awesome. I took the lead this week and am sharing 5 tips that beginners can use to get links from bloggers. This educational video is full to the brim with helpful tips, odd tangents and one very poor impression of a news anchor.

Posted by Danny Dover Today, I am proud to announce the new and improved Beginner's Guide to SEO . This free tutorial covers everything you need to know to get started improving your search engine rankings in the major search engines. Put simply, this is the resource I would have kicked a fool in order to get my hands on when I was first diving into the wild world of SEO. Start Learning SEO Today!

Posted by Danny Dover As recently as a month ago I was a victim of a state of mind I call Analytics Dismissal Disorder . This mindset is common after hearing about the importance of analytics, installing the tracking code and then getting overwhelmed by all of the graphs and scary numbers. When I suffered from analytics dismissal disorder )which my doctors called A.D.D. for short(,

Posted by Danny Dover At SEOmoz, we have always striven to be at the forefront of understanding digital search. As web search has become an increasingly solved problem, some of our researchers have begun to switch their focus from Google to Facebook. Facebook is unique in that it is able to data mine social patterns between real life friends. This is increasingly critical data because as our lives become more busy,

Posted by Danny Dover Today I am proud to announce the launch of the second version of Open Site Explorer . Since SEOmoz has officially moved out of consulting , we are now able to put our full resources into building fantastic SEO software. We want to thank all of you who provided feedback on the first version of the tool for your guidance and we look forward to hearing more from you in the future. Now enough with the chit chat, on to the new features!

Posted by Danny Dover This post is part of an ongoing series where my co-workers and I are working to build a freely available resource center of up-to-date SEO best practices. As we write this content, we are submitting them for peer review so that everyone on the Internet can benefit from collective intelligence. You can read more about the SEO Knowledge Center here.

Posted by Danny Dover About seven months ago, I was asked by Wiley Publishing if I wanted to write a book about advanced SEO. Assuming they had accidentally contacted the wrong person, )You know Rand is spelled with an 'R' right?( I eventually accepted and found out they had indeed wanted me. Shortly after, I wrote a blog post asking what all of you would like to read .

Posted by Danny Dover This post is part of an ongoing series where my co-workers and I are working to build a freely available resource center of up-to-date SEO best practices. As we write this content, we are submitting them for peer review so that everyone on the Internet can benefit from collective intelligence. You can read more about the SEO Knowledge Center here. This weeks proposed SEO best practice deals with duplicate content.

Posted by Danny Dover I believe that the hardest part of SEO is simply keeping up with the trends. Our industry moves extremely fast and as a result, my co-workers and I have spent countless hours searching through old blog posts, articles and e-mail threads while trying to find small tidbits of information. Each of us have separate lists of our favorite resources and up until now, we haven't had a convenient way to aggregate these. Luckily,

Posted by Danny Dover A couple of weeks ago I published a post titled " Tests Show PageRank Sculpting with Nofollow Still Works ". In it, I argued that a test I had run showed that nofollow was a legitimate means for sculpting PageRank. When I originally posted the blog entry, I full-heartedly believed that my analysis of the test results was accurate. As it turned out, I made a mistake. The actual results of the test were inconclusive. Plain and simple,

Posted by Danny Dover As SEOmoz has matured as a company, our SEO team has shifted away from treating SEO purely as an art and more toward treating it as a science. There is certainly the necessity for both perspectives but I believe we are now much more centered. As a result of this shift, we have been running more tests and analyzing more data. Before I get into the topic of our latest test results, let me provide some important points to establish context.

Posted by Danny Dover Psst! Word on the street is that you are a big deal. Some say that working with you is even more fun than changing a co-workers primary Google language to Swahili 1 . Well now, it is time to put your reputation to the test! All of us at SEOmoz are proud to announce the brand new Keyword Research Quiz . This lean, mean, question asking machine was designed to test your sugar infused SEO brain by covering all corners of the Keyword Research world.

Posted by Danny Dover Warning : This post has very little to do with SEO. It will apply to you and your work but not in the way that you are familiar with. It is an experiment for both of us. He wakes up at 7:31 AM just like the day before. With ignorance as his shield, he ventures out into a world without privacy. The young man )a title given to him by his mother( sits submissively in his bed and idly scans e-mail on his phone. Another notice from his bank,