Posted by Sam Niccolls Eric Schmidt - What the Internet Will Look Like in 5 Years: Google's CEO takes a look into the future and talks about some of the ways the internet will change, such as Chinese language sites outnumbering English language sites, an increase in the number of digital natives in the tech workforce, and the difficulties search engines have around ranking real-time search.

Posted by MichaelC One of the best ways to build inbound links is to create an affiliate program. It's also a great way to drive real customer traffic from related sites. But...don't just sign up for one of the big third-party affiliate programs-you'll get the customers, but you'll be throwing away a terrific opportunity to get great inbound links. Today, I'm going to try and talk you into writing your own affiliate program from scratch.

Posted by Dr. Pete Conferences can be amazing opportunities for education and networking, but to get the most out of them, you have to make it to the end. If your average SEO conference is an endurance event, then PubCon is the Iron Man 3 full days of sessions, sponsored parties, being dragged around Vegas by crazy people, topped off by a full afternoon of even more drinking )just in case you somehow managed to forget where the pub in PubCon came from(.

Posted by RobOusbey Improving on-site search functionality can benefit a site by contributing to a better user experience, and by reducing the barriers for users to reach their destination pages. There are a variety of tools that you can use if your site does not already have a search functionality; I won't second guess which search application will best suit your site.

Posted by randfish Selling is hard work. It sucks time and energy from both seller and buyer. Both engage begrudgingly in the act to fulfill a need. If you've been reading SEOmoz for a while, you can probably feel my personal allergy to "sales" as a process and to "selling," even when that's what I'm supposed to do. It causes discomfort to be on the pushing or receiving side of sales and over the last two decades, we,

Posted by great scott! Rand's in Jolly Ol' England this week, so I decided to share a preview from our upcoming DVD Training Series, "Tips, Tricks & Tactics: Volume 1," coming out in November. We filmed this series during our recent seminar in Seattle and the response was amazing. One of the most popular sessions was Conductor CEO, Seth Besmertnik's, presentation on "How to Win SEO Budget and Influence Your CMO.

Posted by Sam Niccolls Bing's Twitter Search & Google's Defensive PR: On the heels of Bing's Twitter Search announcement, Google's PR team put their Annie Oakley shades on and announced some upcoming social media moves of their own. Google Analytics' New Features: There are some fantastic features in GA's latest release including customized alerts, threshold goals )i.e. for time on site and pages per visit(, advanced table filtering, mobile traffic reporting,

Posted by randfish )NOTE: This post is written by Ben Hendrickson and Rand Fishkin as a follow up to Ben's presentation at the Distilled/SEOmoz training seminar in London this week( Our web index, Linkscape , updated again recently, and in addition to provide the traditional stats, we thought we'd share some of the cutting edge research work we do here. Below, you'll find a post which requires extremely close and careful reading. Correlation data doesn't have all the answers,

Posted by great scott! We don't talk about email marketing on the blog much, but any of you working in the internet marketing space )and that's likely all of you( probably know that it's still one of the most effective marketing channels out there. We've been fortunate enough over the years to partner with ExactTarget for our email marketing services and as they've grown and improved their offerings they constantly make me feel terrible. Don't get me wrong, they're awesome,

Posted by chenry 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. I was recently inspired by a post by MikeTek , Examining the Top 150 In-Linked Posts at SEOmoz . While the information was very informative, it was taken from a limited sample of the over 3,800 post on SEOmoz.

Posted by Tom_C Here's a directly actionable tip that any large brand should probably start doing right now. In fact most people should already have started doing it. Hopefully after reading this post they will. Take a look at these two searches: Promo Codes )US keyphrase:( Voucher Codes )UK keyphrase( Out of all those brand searches across both the UK and the US not a single brand ranks number 1 for their own brand keyphrase. Yes, I was shocked too. In fact,

Posted by willcritchlow As many of you are now aware, the "across the bloody pond" edition of the Pro SEO training that we are hosting in London with the SEOmoz crew is now sold out. What you may not know is that we )Distilled and SEOmoz( are sponsoring a LondonSEO event on Tuesday evening after the end of the seminar. What does this mean for you? Well, it means that whether you are coming to the seminar or not,

Posted by great scott! Wondering how to win rank and influence users? Well, if you have multiple pages from one domain ranking in the same SERP, a little bit of optimization may help you get a coveted indented listing. You know, one of those cool situations where two or more of your pages show up right on top of each other in the engines. While this is a bit of an advanced tactic, it can be extremely powerful for driving traffic.

Posted by Lindsay This post is about three pretty interesting things in my book: opportunities at SEOmoz, a new kind of duplicate content, and me. Despite the cleaver title, this post is not about SEO. Youve been warned, OK? Thats OK. Who are you, anyway? I know, I know - I havent been very active on the blog, nor have I been oot 'n aboot on the conference circuit much this year )Did I mention I'm Canadian?(. But I have been busy! Back in January,

Posted by Sam Niccolls To identify the most linked to pages on some of the world's most popular sites, we used SEOmoz's Linkscape powered Top Pages Tool and compiled a list of the most linked to pages on the web. The results, broken out by website and by category, are not all what you might expect. From Google to GaGa the internet's most linked to pages offer a look at your favorite domains that will leave you both scratching your head and laughing. en.wikipedia.

Posted by randfish The search engine optimization process can sometimes be mistaken for a singular, sprint-to-the-finish project, when in fact, it's more like a marathon. Searchers rarely ever convert on the first click and thus, SEO campaigns that merely target a few popular keywords and call the task finished may be fooling themselves. I made this handy chart to help illustrate the issue: In my example,

Posted by great scott! Day 1 of the ExactTarget Connections '09 Email Marketing Conference just wrapped and it was pretty darn awesome, including keynotes from Malcolm Gladwell and Kelly Mooney . I've decided to try something new and check in via video to give a quick recap of the day. As I mention in the video, I'll write up a detailed blog post recapping the whole event but, inspired by some of today's content, wanted to try and offer a little more of a real-time,

Posted by randfish What motivates a link? Sometimes it's referencing or because you've produced something interesting and valuable. Sometimes it's because they've licensed or adopted content/widgets/badges from your site. But, in most cases where an editorial link is given, I find that the underlying motivation is because that link provides some benefit to the linking site.

Posted by RobOusbey Hi there - I'm a blogger. Could help me? I read that massive post about ' lessons learned from three years of blogging ' and I've been brimming with ideas ever since. However, I'd like to attract more views to each of my posts. OK, I can help you with that, by using one equation and five quick techniques to get you thinking.

Posted by randfish I'm in the middle of a wild 6-week stint. First Oslo for a week , then home for 4 days, then SMX East and a week in New York City. Tonight, I'm back in Seattle, but only for a few days - our SEOmoz/Distilled London seminar is just a scant 168 hours away. And, of course, on my return, I couldn't help but be compelled to do another set of SEO graphics ) first series here ( after seeing this great collection of Infographics & Data Visualization Blogs .