Posted by drummerboy9000 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. Inspired by a great post by Vaidhyanathan , I began answering questions on Yahoo! Answers near the beginning of this year. Since then I have answered over 50 questions, nearly always related to metal roofing .

Posted by great scott! Welcome, dear readers, to the first Whiteboard Friday of 2010!! As you may notice, there's a bit of a new look. This comes in large part from our move to a different video hosting solution. We hope these changes will provide a higher-quality WBF experience, and better accessibility for our viewers around the world. On with the show... There's always debate: should you focus on your big head terms, or those wide-ranging tail terms?

Posted by randfish Prelude: I've long promised blog readers a detailed accounting of my experiences raising capital over the course of last summer and into the fall. My apologies for the long delay, and to those seeking more SEO-focused content. This entry is lengthy, detailed and designed to share as much as possible, so hopefully you've got a good 20 minutes to read it :-( We'll be back to SEO tips & tricks tomorrow.

Posted by randfish I thought we'd try something a bit off-topic and fun today - Hunch's reader census widget. Go ahead and answer as many questions as you've got time for and we'll publish the results to learn more about the community we're all in: Powered by Hunch.com I'll be returning to regularly scheduled programming tonight with my long-delayed blog post about our experience raising venture capital. Do you like this post?

Posted by Dr. Pete It's that time of year again; the one where we look back on everything we ate during the last two weeks and promise not to do it again in the new year. It's also the time that many of us set new and ambitious goals for our businesses. Unfortunately, while goals are important and ambition can be admirable, we make the same mistake with our professional resolutions that we do with our personal resolutions. Take the classic weight-loss resolution.

Posted by randfish Lately I've been surprised to hear concerns from a number of SEOs that using the canonical URL tag on the canonical version of the page can somehow cause problems. When I've talked to folks about it, there seems to be confusion that only duplicates should use the rel="canonical" specification and the original must remain rel="canonical"-free. This isn't the case.

Posted by randfish What a year! From traveling to software development, saying goodbye to old friends and growing the team with new ones, we've had a tremendously exciting 12 months at SEOmoz. To celebrate, next week, on Wednesday, January 6th 2010, we'll be hosting an informal meetup at the Elysian Brewery on Capitol Hill in Seattle, WA. Everyone from the Seattle technology, startup and SEO community is welcome to attend, and we'll be hosting a special guest,

Posted by randfish Historically, I've been fairly narrow in what I read in the blogosphere and tech arena )almost all SEO-centric stuff(. You can see my Firefox sidebar list here , which hasn't changed much since 2008 with the exception of the blogs and news sections. But, over the past 6 months, I've been broadening out considerably and found that it adds a great deal to the conversations I'm able to participate in and contribute to,

Posted by Danny Dover As SEOmoz has matured as a company, our SEO team has shifted away from treating SEO purely as an art and more toward treating it as a science. There is certainly the necessity for both perspectives but I believe we are now much more centered. As a result of this shift, we have been running more tests and analyzing more data. Before I get into the topic of our latest test results, let me provide some important points to establish context.

Posted by great scott! Welcome back to our second installment of this very special WhiteBEARD Friday! Last week Rand Fishclause discussed how the new school way to get links is to give back to webmasters . That's right, you've gotta give a little to get a little. This week, in the spirit of Searchmas©, we're giving you 12 examples of sites that exemplify this new model. From video hosting , to awards , to social profiles , and many more,

Posted by randfish Earlier this month, Google launched personalized results by default for all users. SEOs should have already read Danny Sullivan's analysis of the shift )which is quite excellent( and I also suggest checking out David Harry's Guide on the topic. Sadly, despite some good advice, it appears that a lot of folks are still worried that this is somehow the "end of SEO" or demands a "completely new look at SEO practices.

Posted by RobOusbey Amongst the add-ons I add to any new install of Firefox is the Web Developer Toolbar by Chris Pederick. )Find the install links at the bottom of this post.( Obviously, this add-on is chock-full of features that are useful for web developers, but it really does make diagnosing various SEO issues much easier. This list gives the top seven tasks that I find easier when the toolbar is installed.

Posted by great scott! Ho-ho-ho! Merry Winter to you! In a very special Whiteboard Friday we'll look at the new model for attracting lots of inbound links: giving back to webmasters. Nowadays it's not always enough just to have great content. You've got to give the linkerati value-something that will incentivize them to link to your site. Rand Fishclause discusses how this new model works and then, next week,

Posted by randfish First off, apologies for my absence from the blog these past few days. It's been an incredibly busy time, trying to wrap things up before I leave for San Diego over the holidays. So much for a December lull... In this post, I'm going to try tackling a lot of the recent trends we've been observing from the engines and talk about my personal perception of what's to come over the next 12 months.

Posted by Tom_C This past week saw the launch of Google's real-time search and quite frankly everyone flipped out. And justifiably so, it's not often that our SERPs get torn up so much in a new way like this. Questions I'd love to see the answer to are things like: What triggers real-time one-boxes? How long do they last? Are they tied to a geographic location? Are they tied to a language? Unfortuantely I think it's a bit early to have answers to questions like this,

Posted by great scott! They scrape you, they copy you, you license your content, you need geo-targeted versions of your pages...whatever the reason, duplicate content happens. In this week's Whiteboard Friday we'll look at how to deal with duplicate content in ways that will help you make sure you're the one who ranks for your material )as you should( and what traps to avoid . SEOmoz Whiteboard Friday - Dealing with Duplicate Content from Scott Willoughby on Vimeo .

Posted by Dr. Pete You'd have a hard time telling by my posts )let alone my Twitter stream(, but I'm supposedly a psychologist or something, so I thought it was time I did a little psychologizing here on the Moz blog. One thing I like to think I've learned over the years is the subtle art of persuasion not the manipulative, why-won't-my-clients-be-reasonable variety, but the art of communicating in a way that helps promote win-win situations with clients, prospects,

Posted by randfish I've been a big fan of Chris Dixon's excellent blog for a while now, so you can imagine that I was really excited to see him writing about SEO in a post last week. Chris kindly called out SEOmoz, which humbled me, but he also espoused some thinking in the comments that made me a bit concerned and was the catalyst for this post.

Posted by willcritchlow Bing recently came out of beta in the UK and we are seeing the beginnings of the advertising campaign to promote it. For SEOs, however, there is a more immediate opportunity with Bing than hoping it gathers some market share from Google)*(. Linkfromdomain is a search operator that is unique to Bing. It returns the pages that are linked-to from a domain.

Posted by inflatemouse 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. In late October Forum One Networks put out a white paper titled "Online Community and Social Media Compensation." I applaud their efforts, but, I think they create an unrealistic view of the job space in online media . One,