Posted by neilpatel This post was originally in YouMoz , and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author's views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc. Do you have what it takes to become a superstar blogger? While anybody can set up a blognot everyone can take that blog and turn it into a world-renowned blog that ends up on Time Magazines best blog list or Ad Ages Power 150 .

Posted by AndrewDumont Over the last few months our engineering team has been working feverishly on a new index. Our crawlers were extremely successful, but, we ran into a few bumps in the road along the way. Those proverbial bumps shifted our expected launch date from the beginning of April... to today. It's not all bad, though. The new index went live today, and it's big. 159 billion URLs big. That said,

Posted by randfish Today is a good day. Whether you're a Mozzer, a fan of what we've built, a Seattle-startup supporter or even tangentially involved in the field of web marketing, there's reason to celebrate. After 5 years of organic growth )from our initial funding in 2007( and two tough, failed attempts at financing )in 2009 and 2011 (, I'm excited to announce that SEOmoz has raised $18 million in venture capital from Foundry Group and Ignition Partners.

Posted by Suzzicks This post was originally in YouMoz , and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author's views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc. Googles new smartphone crawler may have made mobile SEO easier or slightly more predictable, but that is not the end of the story.

Posted by Erica McGillivray Because we want to gather the best data from a wider sample set, we've extended the Industry Survey deadline until Friday, May 18th. Help your fellow online marketers and take the 2012 Industry Survey today . Our biannual survey covers everything from what you've been doing to what tools you've been using and how your team is structured to what you think the future of online marketing is. This year's survey takes approximately 20 minutes to finish.

Posted by Paddy_Moogan Back in 2009 )was it really that long ago?!( Rand wrote a post titled Perfecting Keyword Targeting and On-Page Optimization, which is one of the most popular blog posts on SEOmoz. It is still referenced as much today as it was back in 2009. The core principles haven't changed that much, but there are some new additions to an SEO's toolkit when it comes to on-page optimization.

Posted by randfish This week we will be covering a topic not often discussed on Whiteboard Friday. We are going to be talking about negative SEO tactics and how these practices function. Negative SEO is definitely not something we condone here at SEOmoz but education around these techniques can be a helpful, precautionary method that could prevent you from being the subject of malicious intent. We hope you enjoy the video and don't forget to leave your comments below.

Posted by jennita Remember a time when community meant the neighborhood or town you lived in? Or when a business only had to be concerned with making customers happy when they were inside their store? Its sometimes hard to remember what life was like before online communities became such commonplace. But the fact of the matter is that online communities are where we spend most of our time these days )especially if you're in search marketing... #amiright?(.

Posted by TrendingSideways This post was originally in YouMoz , and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author's views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc. Outsourcing your link building efforts can work, but as a Textbroker author I can tell you right now, most people aren't doing it right.

Posted by randfish I got a couple emails last week I wanted to share in anonymized format. Here's the first one: It's me again <redacted>, just wondering I have been learning allot more about how to link build without software like senuke x and other automatic software and becoming a better manual link builder with google alerts etc. And here's the second: I look after around 6 clients at the moment, but my daily jobs just seem to be very repetitive e.g.

Posted by Martin Panayotov This post was originally in YouMoz , and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author's views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc. As I am into the online marketing field, I read a lot about SEO. This is my first post about SEO, so please don't be harsh in the comments.

Posted by Suzzicks This post was originally in YouMoz , and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author's views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc. Not everyone realizes it, but Google has been serving different search results to mobile phones than desktop computers for a long time. Beyond that, they serve different results based solely on the handset you are using to search.

Posted by Kate Morris I've been reading The Idea Factory , the history of the innovation that came out of Bell Labs around WWII. Innovation, invention and ideas are things that we don't get to talk much about in SEO. It's all about keywords, links, and content, but I want you to take some time today to think about ideas, inventions and innovations. Why? Because we all want to be millionaires )oh hush, yes you do(, and while that might not happen to all of us,

Posted by searchbrat This post was originally in YouMoz , and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author's views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc. There has been a lot of great discussion about the term inbound marketing of late and exactly what is covered by that phrase.

Posted by randfish Having overly optimized web pages could soon get your websites in some hot water with Google and their search results. It has recently been announced that Google will start to penalize websites that engage in over-optimization practices. In this week's Whiteboard Friday, we will be covering some changes that you should be making to your SEO practices in order to avoid this type of penalization. We hope you enjoy and don't forget to leave comments below!

Posted by Dr. Pete If you live outside of the ivory walls of the Fortune 500, it can sometimes seem like Google gives big brands all the breaks. This isnt just sour grapes some examples are very public. When JC Penney and Overstock got a slap on the wrist for widespread and intentional link manipulation, it was hard not to feel slighted. Theres been a lot of debate about how Google, both manually and algorithmically, may favor big brands,

Posted by Karen Semyan One of the recent water cooler conversations around the Mozplex has been about dashboards. The question: What makes a great dashboard? We all use these top-level reports in various apps everyday, for professional and personal reasons, and some are better than others. At their best, these reports can do an amazing job of making our work more efficient. You check the dashboard, review your progress, gather some insights, and know what to do next.

Posted by randfish Every year, our annual summer customer conference, Mozcon , sells out to capacity, and this year is shaping up to be no different. In my opinion this is largely due to the speakers and the format. The content is among the best I see each year because the conference has developed a reputation as a forcing function for "upping one's game" on quality of tactics and presentation delivery.

Posted by neilpatel This post was originally in YouMoz , and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author's views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc. From Googles Panda , Search Plus Your World and Venice updates, in the last year alone the SEO landscape has changed . And while that means your SEO strategy will change, too, there is one thing that remains the same keywords .

Posted by kaiserthesage This post was originally in YouMoz , and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author's views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc. When I started to work as an SEO for an Australian-based SEO agency in early 2010,