Posted by rebecca Ladies and gentlemen, another guide has seen the light of day! Hooray! Our newest debut is The Professional's Guide to Advanced Search Operators . Available in web and document format, this guide covers advanced searching and identifies various search operators that can help with competitive analysis, keyword research, site auditing, link building, and more. The guide also shares some valuable SEO tools available on the web.

Posted by Darren Slatten What's up, YOUmoz! Ok, enough small talk. I'll get right to the point. I have a 2-page website that I created for the sole purpose of having something to link to from my SEOmoz profile page. My site doesn't really do anything or provide any useful information, but I use it to experiment on sometimes. Over the past 3 months, I've written several YOUmoz posts that include links to my site with the anchor text World's Greatest SEO .

Posted by Danny Dover Everyday a fiercely competitive battle takes place online over capturing the attention of millions of readers. As a result the blogosphere constantly changes shape and different players thrust forward as content kings for the day. Lately, I have been trying to find out what forces control this volatile scene. I have been looking for recurring themes and hoping to find useful correlations. Last Friday, )August 15th,

Posted by randfish As I said, blogging is light this week, but I couldn't help but notice this thread at Metafilter . How can we fight against such entrenched, misinformation and stereotypes? SEO people remind me of "weight weenies" in the bicycle world. Instead of focusing on training and riding and getting faster through practice, weight weenies obsess over how many grams lighter their new water bottle cage is,

Posted by Sarah Bird, Esquire May It Please the Mozzers, I have an update on the Jason Gambert Saga. For those of you wanting a refresher, please see my first post on the internet marketer trying to trademark "SEO" and my first update. When I last I provided an update, Gambert had filed 41-page response to SEOmoz's opposition proceeding and requested that all further legal proceedings be kept secret from the public.

Posted by randfish No intro, just right to the content: #10 - Jane's been on vacation for two weeks and we've gotten a bit behind with Q+A . #9 - It's the two slowest weeks of the working year )apart from Xmas(, and the dev team is buckling down ) as per Seth's advice ( to shoot for our October Launch. #8 - You shouldn't be reading SEOmoz, you should be watching the Olympics! Between Phelps, Bolt, Luskin & Johnson,

Posted by Danny Dover Disclaimer: This post doesnt include any information about SEO. If you are looking for SEO related content, please read the normal search related posts on this blog. The SEOmoz community has always been a fundamental driving force behind this company. All of you )Moz Community( provide the motivation to keep us )SEOmoz employees( working and you issue the guidance to keep us on the right track. When asked why I like my job so much,

Posted by great scott! This week Rand gets a bit technical with a whirlwind walkthrough of how the search engine link graph works. Fullu-qualified domains, pay-level domains, internal juice, external juice, domain trust, etc. It's all explained in this fast and furious installment of Whiteboard Friday...enjoy! SEOmoz Whiteboard Friday - How the Link Graph Works from Scott Willoughby on Vimeo . Do you like this post?

Posted by rebecca Stories, news, and other notable items from the past week: Three star links: Soxialize came out with Tweet Pro , a service that allows you to quickly and easily find Twitter users who share your same interest by searching through posted messages and profiles using keywords you enter. Richard Baxter teaches us how to create a new page template in Wordpress for social media targeting . Lately he's been providing some solid tips and posts on his blog,

Posted by randfish This tip is probably one of the simplest ways to gain links through conservation. A lot of SEO advice talks about double-checking links that point to 404 pages, as these are lost potential. If a link points to a page that doesn't resolve, it's generally accepted wisdom that the engines won't give any benefit to the domain or any particular page. Certainly,

Posted by randfish Yahoo!, through both Site Explorer and their advanced link search operators, provides the most robust link data currently available on the web. Despite this offering, and in spite of some excellent blog posts and resources on this subject ) 1 , 2 , 3 (, it seems that not everyone doing SEO professionally is familiar with how to use Yahoo!'s data to the fullest extent. Even worse, we might not all be aware of how critical it is to measure,

Posted by rebecca One of my friends and colleagues, Chris Winfield, is presenting on how to ignite viral campaigns at SES San Jose later this month. If you're attending SES San Jose, I highly recommend hearing Chris's presentation. Not only is he a great speaker, he knows his stuff when it comes to social media marketing, link bait, and viral marketing. Also, he has excellent taste in television, if I do say so myself. Anyway, recently I interviewed Chris about his company,

Posted by Sarah Bird, Esquire May It Please the Mozzers, I'm continuing my series on important contract clauses for Legal Monday. I'm looking at Limitation of Liability provisions today. A Limitation of Liability clause places a cap on the amount of money an unsatisfied client could win in Court. It is a very powerful tool to limit your risk. Important Note : Never use disclaimers of warranties, indemnifications, or limitations of liability as excuses to do bad work.

Posted by Tom_C An alternative title for this would be "Tom's headsmacking linkbuilding tip #1" but I'm not sure this will be a whole series so I'm going to play it safe with a title which doesn't force me to come up with these ideas on a regular basis. I know, I'm lazy. Bite me! Talking of being lazy - I'm always looking for ways to jumpstart linkbuilding campaigns and cut corners and if my knowledge of the human race is accurate then the rest of you are too .

Posted by great scott! What a day! It's our first Whiteboard Friday interview from our new Whiteboard Studios at Mozplex 2.0 )or the Mozoleum as our guest suggests(. Who do we have? None other than our good friend and MSN Live Webmaster Center honcho, Nathan Buggia. As many of you know, Live just released a whole bunch of cool new features for Webmaster Center. Nathan and Rand discuss how these features can help webmasters,

Posted by willcritchlow Another business-focussed post from me today )with a little SEO at the end(. I was answering a Q&A the other day in a kind of tag-team formation with Rand when I realised that some of my thinking would make a good blog post. The question was about how to grow a new agency and asked whether we thought that contacting site owners and pointing out flaws / suggesting improvements was a good way to win new business.

Posted by rebecca Stories, news, and other notable items from the past week: Three star links: Gmail got 302 hijacked . Oh, the humanity! Lisa Ditlefsen nerds it up by introducing SEO Wars . Rand is "Rand Link Walker." Need I say more? Live Search Webmaster Center has been updated to offer crawl issue reports, backlinks data, and download functionality. Hooray for new features!

Posted by randfish Some people just "get" the web. I don't know how to explain this phenomenon effectively or convey a reasonable set of criteria upon which a person could be judged, but there's no doubt about it. I think back to the first time I heard Greg Boser or Jessie Stricchiola speak at a conference, the first few blog posts I read at MindValleyLabs , the SEOmoz comments I read from Shor ,

Posted by randfish Not many people know that I actually attended the University of Washington in Seattle and worked, briefly, towards a degree in finance, thinking that maybe I'd abandon all this Internet nonsense and pursue a career on Wall Street. It was a long time ago )in web years(, and I dropped out of the program two classes away from graduation to dedicate more time to the company that would become SEOmoz )in 2001(. Before I did, though,

Posted by rebecca I'm pleased to announce that after quite a lull in guide publications, we've got 5 great guides on their way. Today we're launching one of them, The Professional's Guide to Blogging . Available in web and document format, the blogging guide provides an in-depth look at what blogging is and how a new blogger can create, write, and promote his or her own blog. Authored by blogging expert Tamar Weinberg,