Posted by willcritchlow I have been promising Rand all week that, yes, I'd write a post. And then we'd go drinking again. Nevertheless, with Rand on a plane, I thought it was time to get my act together and write something up. Following Rebecca's post about Get Listed , it seemed like a good time to write up something about an issue we at Distilled have been having with Google Local.

Posted by Danny Dover This post is a little different than what you might be used to. Instead of talking at you, I would like to talk with you. I would like to propose a blogging outline, not actually blog on the given subject )yet!(. First, allow me to explain myself. I have been under-utilizing my blogging privileges the last three months and I would like to try to make this up to all of you. I have made the same excuses that everyone makes. I am too busy,

Posted by rebecca This year my trainer decided to branch off on her own and start a Seattle triathlon training company called TN Multisports. I set up her website and decided to try out Get Listed.org , David Mihm and Patrick Sexton 's new site that helps local businesses add their information to major local search engines and check reviews and citations.

Posted by randfish For the first time in a good while, I managed to spend a few hours sitting in sessions here in London, re-absorbing some information and even picking up a few new bits here and there. Short post, but I figured if it's new/interesting to me, it might also be enjoyable to others )hopefully(. Lisa Ditlefsen opened a new consulting agency - Verve Search . She's the brains behind some genius campaigns including Conde Nast Hotels' Johansens property ,

Posted by Lindsay After a whole month on the job I can attest that its an exciting time to work at SEOmoz! In the midst of a tough economy, we are delighted to see continued growth in the number of PRO members we serve as well as an impressive stream of consulting inquiries. To help support our next stage of growth, we are hiring an SEO! Wanted: SEO Expert to Join the SEOmoz Team I cant wait to meet the next addition to our team!

Posted by great scott! Corned beef hash, hash browns, there are many great types of hash out there )don't start, I get it(. All too often overlooked by online marketers and webmasters, however, is the old school hash symbol )#(, also known as the pound symbol. This little beauty can do some pretty cool things for you. It can control duplicate content problems, martial affiliate links, and even help you control the content shown to different visitors.

Posted by randfish The announcement from Yahoo!, Live & Google that they will be supporting a new "canonical url tag" to help webmasters and site owners eliminate self-created duplicate content in the index is, in my opinion, the biggest change to SEO best practices since the emergence of Sitemaps. It's rare that we cover search engine announcements or "news items" here on SEOmoz, as this blog is devoted more towards tactics than breaking headlines,

Posted by rebecca My coworker Mike and I were pondering lunch options today and decided to order from the Honey Hole , one of Seattle's best sandwich places. Every day the place has a line out the door because it's a popular haven for hungry Seattleites who want a belly full of sandwichy goodness, so sometimes we elect to call our order in and pick it up. Mike and I both independently searched for the Honey Hole's website so we could check out their menu and call in an order.

Posted by randfish We've been pouring in hours on Linkscape , growing the index )46+ Million Domains & 36+ Billion Pages(, making the updates closer together and refining the quality of our metrics. Today, we've got two big announcements that should be exciting for nearly everyone in the SEO development and analysis space. First off,

Posted by randfish It's late. I'm just back from a week of travel and crazy amounts of email )note to other CEOs, when emailing 120K people with a special offer, be wary of putting your email address as the reply-to(. I had a terrific time at the Online Marketing Summit - great people, many of whom I'd never met before, an impressive turnout of more than 500 )even in a down economy; wow!

Posted by Tom_C Sometimes the power of the internet and the modern age just astounds me. I'll see something that I just need to share and this is one of those times. It's not necessarily about SEO directly but it certainly demonstrates some amazing internet marketing and it re-emphasis just how powerful data and original content is. I'm talking about the Guardian's recent football )soccer( application called the Guardian Chalkboard .

Posted by great scott! This week Rand discusses how to position your blog within your niche. Blogging is obviously an incredibly powerful tool for building a brand and can be effective in almost any industry. However, there are important considerations to take into account when you're setting up a blog, and that's what this installment of Whiteboard Friday is all about. SEOmoz Whiteboard Friday - Positioning Your Blog from Scott Willoughby on Vimeo . Do you like this post?

Posted by Sarah Bird, Esquire May It Please the Mozzers, Content Aggregators should pay attention to a recent settlement between the New York Times and GateHouse Media. According to Online Media Daily , the New York Times agreed to remove headlines and first sentences of GateHouse articles referenced by the New York Times on one of its content aggregator sites, Boston.com. Is this case part of a trend ?

Posted by rebecca I'm sad to say that there are currently no posts sitting in the YOUmoz queue awaiting moderation. For shame! Thus, I'm calling for any of you SEOmoz blog readers, community members, PRO account holders, Internet marketers and passerbys to author up a YOUmoz entry and submit it for review and publication. If you're interested in writing a YOUmoz entry but aren't sure about how that whole UGC thing works,

Posted by rebecca I was pinging people on Twitter about what to blog about, and Michael Vandemar suggested I take a look at his post about Google web search switching to AJAX . He and some other SEOs have recently noticed that Google search results URLs have been displaying the search query string after a hash mark )#(. I'm not an AJAX expert,

Posted by randfish A couple years ago, I posed some questions from the SEO world that I couldn't answer. Tonight, I'd like to repeat that process and throw up some dilemmas that, once again, have me in a quandry. Does QDD Give an Inherent Boost to Negative Subject Matter? Some rumors have been passing around the SEO world that QDD, Google's "diversity" algorithm that's intended to show more of a variety of different kinds of content in page one of the SERPs,

Posted by randfish One of the areas we rarely touch on here at SEOmoz is how to use your offline, general business assets for SEO. Today I want to tackle that along with the seemingly unrelated subject of watching historical progress. At the end of this excercise, I think you'll see why these two tie together so nicely. Leveraging Business Assets for SEO Chances are,

Posted by great scott! Okay, so any of us in the online marketing world have been guilty of obsessing over rankings at one time or another. Well, in this week's Whiteboard Friday, Rand makes the case that Rank Tracking may not be the end all be all of SEO metrics, at least not by itself. Take a look and see what else you need to be monitoring in order to make rank tracking truly worthwhile to your sites and those of your clients.

Posted by willcritchlow About a month ago - back before Christmas and before my brilliant trip to New Zealand - I wrote a post over at Distilled about how to track referrals from the second page of Google using Google analytics. It was one of my more popular posts - and since I discovered the trick, I've found it quite handy on our own site, never mind client sites.

Posted by randfish Last week, I did a Whiteboard Friday, The Microsite Mistake , in which I called out a practice I see as potentially detimental to SEO - using a separate domain to accumulate links for your content site. I was not arguing against all microsite strategies or all domain separations or even all subdomains, just pointing out that this particular usage wasn't a very logical one. Then came the comments.