Posted by Nick Gerner Note : this post does not have a great deal of SEO advice per se. But I will give some insight into some of the technical details of how we come up with PageStrength scores and give a sneak preview of a product we'll be launching soon. Here at the mozPlex we've been hard at work on some new tools )see below for exclusive early preview screenshots!(. One of the things we try to do is incorporate some of the great advice that's already out there.

Posted by Nick Gerner I've been reading some of the papers from AIRWeb '08 , the recent web spam conference, and I came across one called, " A Few Bad Votes Too Many? Towards Robust Ranking in Social Media ." What was really interesting to me is that the authors quantify the effects of vote spam in "thumbing" systems )like the one we have here at SEOmoz(, and that they rank the usefulness of different features in ranking questions and answers.

Posted by Nick Gerner A couple of weeks ago the AIRWeb held its 2008 conference. After seeing Dr. Garcia's post on the conference I was going read the papers and provide a high-level overview of some of the papers. However, after I saw that they were holding a web spam competition, my interests headed in a different direction. At the risk of raising Dr. Garcia's ire )a mistake I've made in the past (, I have, with tongue placed throughly in cheek,

Posted by Nick Gerner We've been working pretty hard on pulling together the numbers from 3000+ responses to the SEO Industry Survey, graphing the results, and writing up some thoughts in an article on the SEO Industry Survey . We also picked a winner for the iPhone and will be contacting this person privately to notify him or her. Being the new guy at SEOmoz,