Posted by Jane Copland I've recently purchased my first BlackBerry phone, and I've thus been introduced to the joys of a truly mobile Internet. There is a big difference between composing all-lower-case, badly punctuated emails on one of these horrific pieces of rubbish and using a phone that was actually designed with the Internet in mind. However, I've also had the displeasure of visiting sites that aren't designed with mobile phones in mind.

Posted by Jane Copland Many of you saw this post from seoco.co.uk this morning )or its Sphinn thread ( about our Web 2.0 Awards being removed from Google's index. We noticed the same thing late last night and spent some time this morning going through what could have happened.

Posted by Jane Copland There is plenty to read about social media online, but rarely do I come across something that I find really interesting or even particularly believable. On any given day, you can wade through a mass of blog posts and articles about new tools with which to waste time on Twitter. I know how to waste time on Twitter. I do it all the time. It has been quite a while since I read something I found really interesting about social media. It seems like a clean,

Posted by Jane Copland I always find it difficult to begin conference recaps. To me, they always sound trite. They're the high school English class equivalent of the forced short stories that begin, "We packed up the car to go to the beach..." Thus, my complaining about beginning conference recaps is how I've chosen to start this one. Luckily, there is plenty to talk about from SMX Advanced, and not all of the good stories originate at the Edgewater Hotel's bar.

Posted by Jane Copland Using Twitter over the past week or so has been a very frustrating experience. The site takes a long time to load, its features either intermittently or permanently don't work, updates get lost and, due to the site's miserable uptime, its third party applications don't work either. For a time, every second person's update complained about Twitter's uptime )or lack thereof( and some suggested a mutiny.

Posted by Jane Copland To quote our fantastic CTO Jeff Pollard, we're live . 2008's Web 2.0 Awards are finally complete . Two years after SEOmoz's first Web 2.0 Awards launched, we've finished compiling, ranking and awarding hundreds of websites across forty-one categories. We've added new categories and removed outdated ones. We've also again teamed with a great group of bloggers, marketers, and web-based business people who acted as our voting panel.

Posted by Jane Copland We work in an industry where everyone can link. It's very tough to find one SEO, or one person who's interested in SEO, who doesn't have a website of some sort. Many of us have more than one: a work-related domain and a personal or hobby site. None of us lacks the ability to link. Thus, it seems we sometimes forget that not all industries are like ours.

Posted by Jane Copland I know it's hard to believe. I'm doing the Thursday round up. Rebecca has left town for Memorial Day weekend and thus it's fallen to me to get together this week's links. When she says it's more time consuming than it seems, she isn't lying. Three star links: The Guardian's Victor Keegan discusses the fallacy that Google is unbeatable , however he makes some points I don't agree with,

Posted by Jane Copland If you take any interest in Sphinn and the debates that rage therein, you properly noticed last week's uproar over linkbait specialist Lyndon Antcliff's fake story that ended up being mentioned on Fox News. We've dabbled in a fair few linkbait projects over the years and since the Sphinn discussion was still alive just two days ago, I don't think it's too late to mention it again.

Posted by Jane Copland I don't often get indignant about websites. Even bad ones. Sometimes I complain about what passes for Web 2.0 genius , but I have a problem with one particular site I've come across lately. I find Spock.com vaguely appalling. Spock is a social networking / people search site which allows anyone to edit anybody else's information. If you find that you've been added to the site, you can claim your profile and change your information. However,

Posted by Jane Copland I apologise for another Facebook-centred post, but something interesting happened to me this week. I also realise that it is a bit strange to title an original post, "The Revised Edition," but this is indeed a complete re-write of my first draft. My initial post was titled, "Cusomter Service Protocol 101: Threaten To Ban Your Most Loyal Users" and it was quite the diatribe. You see, on Monday Facebook threatened to ban me.

Posted by Jane Copland If I had been paying attention on April 15th, instead of swanning around New Zealand, I would have noticed that Facebook had launched what amounts to an elementary keyword research tool ... and as I write that, I realise that Facebook Lexicon is perhaps less elementary than some of the tools that we already pay for. An anonymous aggregation of "public and semi-public" keywords from across the site,

Posted by Jane Copland I may be totally wrong on this, or maybe I've overlooked some obvious explanation as to why some content on the end of nofollowed SEOmoz comment links has been indexed and ranked. Puzzling over this by myself and with friends hasn't produced any good conclusions, so I thought I'd throw this out there to the community. Nutshell: periodically, I'll search for my own name in search engines. If you say you've never done this, you're a liar. Everyone has.

Posted by Jane Copland This past Tuesday night )and, eventually, Wednesday morning(, Rand and I sat down and "wrote" a post that we were quite sure was rather amusing. Admittedly, posting to a widely read SEO blog after getting little sleep and consuming three beers and two cocktails isn't advisable. We were, however, relatively sure that we were on to something good. It turns out that we weren't just tired and somewhat drunk .

Posted by Jane Copland Google has some fantastic OneBox results. We've all seen most of them: the answer to important queries such as "number of horns on a unicorn" and "what is the answer to life the universe and everything" , in addition to more sensible results, like accurate information as to " what time is it in Sydney ?" However, we feel that Google has neglected to include some important information in its OneBox offerings. As such,

Posted by Jane Copland Hello, SEOmoz readers. My name is Jane and I work here. You may remember me from posts that were written about two weeks ago. I've been pretty quiet recently )the Moz Points are suffering( because I've been at the first SMX show in Australia . Rand already wrote about the show , but I thought I'd provide a bit of "overheard" fun as well. At the moment, we are waiting at Auckland airport. At the moment,

Posted by Jane Copland At any given time, our Q&A section usually features a question or two about image optimisation. People want to know why their images haven't been indexed or aren't appearing for their key terms, even after they have added keywords to every imaginable attribute. Appropriate anchor text, nearby-keywords and relevant surrounding content don't seem to have made a difference. The images don't show up. In their place,

Posted by Jane Copland I don't watch much television. It's silly really. I bought a big flat screen HDTV DVR OMG WTF television before I could really afford such things and I only regularly watch two shows. Tonight, one of my two shows will go off air for the last time, leaving me with only American Idol, which I encourage you all to link to from now on as American Idle )and also to check out American Idol's SEO lookalike (.

Posted by Jane Copland Like most SEOs I know, I have a couple of sites that act as my side projects. They aren't monetised and I plan to keep them that way: I like to keep an eye on them for the purpose of experiments. By this, I mean that I like to mess around with them and if one of them drops completely from every search engine, loses all of its PageRank and its server catches fire, it doesn't matter all that much. Given the experimental nature of the sites in question,

Posted by Jane Copland Caught during a moment of extreme moral ineptitude on Saturday, I did the unthinkable. I signed up to Twitter. I felt like a fourteen seventeen year old who's been thinking about sneaking into her parents' booze cabinet with her friends and finally makes the decision to pick the lock. I also felt bad immediately, especially given this and this . I didn't try to convince myself that I'd signed up in order to keep ahead of the world's breaking news,