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. Personally I hate SPAM with a passion and Im sure many of you will agree that you hate it also. Some time ago, I had a client ask me if there was a way for us to eliminate the SPAM that was generated from his web form.

Posted by great scott! What's the right search strategy for your niche? That's the question we're looking at in this week's Whiteboard Friday. Determining which tactics are going to be most effective for your particular situation is critical for search marketers. PPC, SEO, Social, Viral? Sure they all have their advantages, but depending on the marketplace you're in, some strategies may be much more viable - in both cost and effectiveness - than others. Not surprisingly,

Posted by Sam Niccolls In 1970 porn was a 10 million dollar industry. Today, the porn industry pulls in close to a billion dollars. According to Alexa , four of the hundred most trafficked sites on the web are porn sites. Additionally, Google has a monthly volume of over 100 million porn related searches and that number is only increasing . Needless to say, the saying holds true on the web: sex sells. But the results in the x rated SERPs are not all what you might think.

Posted by randfish In the last 10 months, we've taken a number of dramatic steps to improve the link information available to webmasters & SEOs. Today, I'm pleased to announce even more progress in that direction, as well and cover the impressive store of data now accessible.

Posted by Lucy Langdon When I talk about 'niche blogs', I mean blogs that are regularly updated and focus mainly, but not exclusively, on a certain subject area like, for example, crocheting or tea. More often than not, a blog with a specialty will be of a much higher quality than your average 'rambling and musings of x' site. However, with a zillion new blogs published per hour, it's getting increasingly difficult to ferret these quality blogs out,

Posted by great scott! This week on Whiteboard Friday we're looking at visualization. Not the Tony Robbins, Zig Ziggler, positive thinking kind, but rather how to make your web content attractive to users. People on the web consume tons of information everyday, so their time is limited. A surefire way to turn people off is with a long page of text with nothing to break it up. Even if the content is stellar,

Posted by roadies 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. Dear @UnitedAirlines , As you are well aware, @DaveCarroll has released a well-produced music video about lousy customer service that he experienced. The video is thought-out, witty, satarical,

Posted by Danny Dover Personal branding is the art of showcasing your experiences, accomplishments and perspectives. Like many of you, I knew the importance of this but had always put building a personal branding website on the back burner because I didn't think it was very important and because I felt uncomfortable talking about my accomplishments in such an obvious and self-serving fashion. Recently, my view completely changed.

Posted by jennita Every now and then great conversations happen via Twitter - by conversations I mean when multiple people Tweet and "@" each other regarding the same topic. During the day when so many people are online, there is a lot of "noise" which can make it pretty difficult to keep up. However, if you've ever had the joy of being a part of one of the #nightcrew search marketing Twitter conversations, then you know some of the gems I'm talking about.

Posted by Tom_C While brainstorming potential blog post topics I decided that keyphrase research doesn't get enough love here and I merrily agreed to write a post on the topic. Little did I know that this would result in a morning of maths. Monday morning to be precise. Monday maths morning. I might make that a recurring theme. This post is going to be all about the adcenter Ad Intelligence plugin for Microsoft Excel . For those that don't know what it is,

Posted by randfish We've all been bored to tears )or driven to madness( by the PageRank Sculping debate that's arisen since Google's June announcement. But, behind the scenes, a lot of smart SEOs have been working on ways to provide the same benefits that were thought to be conferred by PR sculpting with nofollow through alternate methods. Out of the few that have emerged, the one I believe has the most promise and best opportunity is "Link Consolidation." Let's, briefly,

Posted by Sam Niccolls )Note: A tip of the cap goes to Rebecca whose great roundups helped me sift through my feed reader on more than a few Saturday morning. Hopefully my breakdown of the last week in technology and online marketing provides a digestible and similarly entertaining accompaniment to a wonderful 4th of July weekend. ( 1( Billy Mays & Product Demonstrability - Jeff Sexton at FutureNow wrote a very interesting article about Billy Mays.

Posted by great scott! Crawling and Indexing. Without them you can't rank. If you can't rank, you can't get search traffic. If you can't get search traffic, your online marketing efforts are going to suffer; and in our industry that is a colossal FAIL. This seems like simple stuff we all take for granted,

Posted by randfish I'm not always a fan of Guy Kawasaki's work, but really enjoyed his post on the OPEN Forum - A Dozen Don'ts for Entrepreneurs . I thought I'd take a stab at replicating it with some of my biggest warnings for those in our field. For the list below, the word "clients" is interchangeable with "marketing manager" or "executive team" for in-house SEOs. Don't Create False Expectations Clients are just like everyone else - when you exceed their expectations,

Posted by RobOusbey We all like links from big sites right? Whether it's in an editorial article, a guest post, etc, it's great for sending some strength and trust to your site. However, the drawback of links from big sites, is that you might find it's on a small page. The newly published page will take some time to get indexed, much of it's strength )certainly initially( is likely to come from internal links, and it's unlikely to have a great crawl rate.

Posted by randfish My good friend, Aaron Kahlow , posed an interesting question during the Online Marketing Summit yesterday afternoon in Portland, OR. Aaron asked: If a client came to you with $1 million to invest in a single Internet marketing channel, which one would you choose? Obviously, the question is a bit ridiculous )given that there's no additional detail provided(, but it's designed to elicit an "off-the-cuff" response to a challenging scenario. The answer,

Posted by MikeK@DanconiaMedia 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. It's been said here before: Press releases are much less powerful than they used to be for SEO purposes. While churning out news releases and submitting them to free sites may not do much,

Posted by randfish )Intro: This post continues a series of personal growth focused entries. It doesn't have much direct, applicable SEO value, so feel free to skip if that's what you're seeking( I've learned more in the last 9 months than at any previous time in my life - about myself, about this company and about the worlds of venture capital, entrepreneurship and startups. And,

Posted by Danny Dover First and foremost, let me extend my best wishes to the family and friends of Michael Jackson. I can only imagine the pain of losing a close friend and then having to watch it play out on a global stage. He made an extraordinary impact on the world and although not perfect, he is a teacher even in death )as evidenced by this post(. The following is a timeline of how the news of the Prince of Pop's death traveled across the internet.

Posted by great scott! This week, Rand is joined by one of our in-house data geniuses, Ben Hendrickson , to talk more about some of our recently released correlation data to support guidelines for SEO best practices. While correlation doesn't always equal causation, it's still very interesting to look at the attributes and features high ranking sites tend to have in common.