Posted by Matt Peters Intro from Rand - this post comes from Dr. Matt Peters , SEOmoz's data scientist. He came on board in February of this year after stints at Harvard )working on climate science models(, Washington Mutual, JP Morgan and Fannie Mae )analyzing mortgage securities( and more )including some research into Google Places rankings last November(.

Posted by aleyda 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 really enjoyed the recent Whiteboard Friday about Top 5 SEO Questions from SEOmoz customers and I was surprised by mainly two things: 1.

Posted by Paddy_Moogan Last month I spoke at SAScon in the UK on the topic of getting actions from analytics. Its something that I feel quite strongly about so I wanted to write a post on here to talk about it a little and expand upon what I talked about at SAScon. The key question I want to answer is - "What key metrics should I be tracking?

Posted by Dejan SEO 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 love freestyle link building. There is hardly anything more satisfying than getting in the zone and branching out into countless search iterations plucking opportunities one by one, thinking of great content ideas, implementing it,

Posted by Aaron Wheeler When most of us talk about SEO, the search engines we implicitly refer to are Google and Bing/Yahoo, but that's about it. Do you know which of these search engines is most popular in Russia? Neither! The largest search engine in Russia is Yandex, with millions of users and more market share than either of the other guys. You may have been wondering how to optimize your site for Yandex or other international search engines.

Posted by Aaron Wheeler This week, SMX Advanced has taken over Seattle - and we've managed to get a piece of the action! That's right - we've got Duane Forrester, the Senior Project Manager of Bing's Webmaster Program, to talk with us about some of the new updates to Bing and Bing's Webmaster Tools. Rand talks to Duane about the new Facebook integration on Bing SERPs, the adoption of Schema.org metadata markup ,

Posted by randfish If you're anything like me, you spend several hours each month )maybe more often( preparing elaborate worksheets of ranking analyses to help uncover why a particular site/page is outranking another and what it will take to reach top rankings. Which is why the screenshot below has me pretty excited. That's the first version of the new SERPs Analysis Tool , and, even in this early form, it's a thing of beauty.

Posted by Laura Lippay Music to enjoy while reading this post: We Know Something You Don't Know by DJ Format & Jurassic 5 You provide something specific: That might be a product, a service, a trustworthy source of information, a community space And you know exactly what your audiences may be searching for to find your wares. But do you know what they really want out of you? Do you know how they really feel? Do you know what they want more of or less of in your industry?

Posted by randfish Since 2005, SEOmoz has released a new version of the Search Ranking Factors survey every two years, a piece of content that many in the SEO world have used and referenced. This year, we've continued that tradition and added a whole new element of research, comparing the aggregated opinions of 132 SEOs around the world with correlation data from over 10,000 results in Google. Because this document is quite large,

Posted by robmillard Hi there SEOmoz readers - Im Rob and I work at Distilled as an SEO Consultant. Blogger outreach is a topic Ive spoken about recently at SMX London and I wanted to share some of the tips with you here on the SEOmoz blog. Its worth quickly covering off why I think SEOs should be building relationships through outreach - a responsive network of bloggers with whom you have an ongoing conversation can help make your promotion efforts much easier.

Posted by richardbaxterseo Just every now and again, search engines love to throw our merry band of SEO types the occasional curveball and keep us on our toes with new toys and updates. Yesterday was one such day for the world of structured data in web page design. Whats structured data? Unless youve been living under a rock for the past two years,

Posted by Aaron Wheeler Time management is one of the toughest parts of any job, but in web marketing, it's impossible to do your job if you can't manage your projects. Since web marketers are wearers of many hats , it's helpful to collaborate, regroup, and organize often enough to keep on top of things. In this week's Whiteboard Friday, Tom Critchlow from Distilled and SEOmoz's VP of Marketing, Jamie,

Posted by adamf More than six months have passed since we last updated our plans and pricing with the launch of our web app last summer. In that time, we have gotten a ton of great feedback, brilliant suggestions, and more specifically, pleas for a better price point between $99 and $499 )with more campaigns(. We gave this a lot of thought, crunched some numbers, and today we're launching improved plans and pricing for SEOmoz PRO!

Posted by jennita Come on now, you didn't think I'd spill beans just like that did you? Before I give you the goods, let me refresh your memory in case this is the first time you're hearing about MozCation . A few weeks ago, we asked people to create some sort of unique content and tell us why we should have an SEOmoz Meetup )aka MozCation( in their city.

Posted by dohertyjf 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. The advent of social media has brought a host of changes to the SEO industry, and online marketing as a whole.

Posted by Dr. Pete A while back, I started thinking about how the different status codes and redirects )301s, 302s, etc.( might look visually. I started drawing up some ideas for what was going to be an illustrated blog post, but then it suddenly dawned on me that I was slowly creating an infographic. I then proceeded to have a conversation with myself about how I could never create an infographic and was probably doomed.

Posted by randfish Many of us trained in the ways of classical SEO are familiar with the link building process: Step 1: Find relevant sites from which to get a link. Step 2: Search for contact information )email or phone number(. Step 3: Get in touch and find a way to make the link happen )sell them on great content, do a trade in-kind, plant a seed and hope, etc.( If you've ever done this )for the first 2 years of my SEO career, it's practically all I did(,

Posted by Paddy_Moogan Today I wanted to talk about some actionable link building techniques that you can go away and start using straight away. I appreciate how difficult it can be to implement some of the link building techniques we talk about here, so I wanted to cover some which many of you should be able to use straight away. The first two techniques involve some software called Screaming Frog . We love this in the Distilled office,

Posted by caseyhen We all want to build up the reputation and authority of our websites and this week Rand discusses some competitive link analysis tips using Open Site Explorer. He talks about how to avoid some common pitfalls when trying to get similar links that your competitors have and give you a few good ideas on how you should be doing it. If you have any tips that you can share with the community on how you do competitive link analysis,

Posted by adamf I'm happy to share a bit of good news for all of you Firefox toolbar aficionados-we have just launched the MozBar V2 . This is the biggest update we have made to the toolbar in the past year, and includes a bunch of great new features, big and small. Here's a quick rundown: 1. Enhanced link and keyword highlighting We have always offered the ability to highlight nofollow links, but what about when you want to quickly see all of your followed links,