Posted by randfish At the SMX Sydney conference in Australia this past week, search engineers Priyank Garg & Greg Grothaus )of Yahoo! & Google, respectively( shared information about duplicate content filtering across domains of which I and many of the other speakers/attendees were previously unaware. Priyank, when asked about best practices for "localizing" English language content across domains, noted that Yahoo!

Posted by great scott! We here at SEOmoz have been fortunate enough to work with some incredible consulting clients over the years. We've achieved some amazing results and built some wonderful relationships with many of them. We're often asked about what it takes to really develop a standout SEO consulting brand and, since it's an oft overlooked topic, that's exactly what we'll cover in this week's Whiteboard Friday.

Posted by randfish Today, at the SMX Sydney conference, Darren Rowse and I had a fascinating conversation that I felt compelled to share. In 2006, a popular blog post or piece of content would generate a remarkable amount of blogging activity. It wasn't uncommon for a few hundred small & mid-size blogs & news sites to pick up a story, add their thoughts and create links. Today,

Posted by rebecca Hiya folks! I'm pleased to announce some new features, functionality, and funtastic contests that we're rolling out in order to make you lousy masses happy )wait, did I just type what I was thinking?(. I've listed them below: Top Ranked Users is Now Free of Rand's Bearded Mug Some of you may have noticed weird changes afoot on our Top Ranked Members list. If you check it out, you'll notice some differences in who's ranking highly: No,

Posted by Danny Dover Once every 100 years, a technology is developed that changes the way that people view their world. Today, I am fortunate enough to be able to introduce one such technology. internet, please make way for Webfluence, the world's first and only search engine by SEOs for SEOs. Try Webfluence Now: www.webfluence.com Background: At SEOmoz, we have been trying to reverse engineer the search engines for years. Up until now,

Posted by RobOusbey I hope you read this post and enjoy it. I also hope you never need it. In the 'current economic climate' there is a chance that any company may have to 'restructure' or even cease trading altogether. These events are no fun for any employees involved, but I'd like to share some advice that will help you prepare for and cope with the worst situation if it arises. Negotiating Your Redundancy If you are being made redundant,

Posted by randfish This past week, as Sarah, Adam, Jeff and I lef tthe office for our Tuesday lunch meeting, they asked me how the Iceland conference went. I believe my exact words were "It was the most fun I've had since getting married." The more I reflect on the experience, the truer it is. I arrived in Keflavik airport at 6:15am last Thursday morning.

Posted by richardbaxterseo 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 SEOmoz team has been beavering away lately, adding more and more data to Linkscape and chipping away at the coalface of cutting edge R&D with SEOmoz Labs .

Posted by great scott! How deep or flat your site is can have a lot to do with how thoroughly indexed it is. Minimize the number of "clicks" it takes the bots to get to your content, and the more likely it is to get indexed. In this video we'll look at some simple strategies to help flatten out even the most labyrinthine sites. SEOmoz Whiteboard Friday - Flat Site Architecture from Scott Willoughby on Vimeo . Also,

Posted by randfish Short post tonight, as demands on my time are in excess of even their normally overwhelming quantities. Hopefully I'll make a bigger return to the blog with the last piece of the beginner's guide )on analytics(, a post on my recent, amazing trip to Iceland for RIMC and more depth and detail on using Nick's phenomenal new Top Pages Tool )seriously, it's a game changer(.

Posted by rebecca We've given a face lift to an oldie but a goody: The Professional's Guide to Link Building has been updated and is available in web and document format. Written by link builder extraordinaire Eric Enge , the guide is a great resource for beginners who want to know why link building is important and how it impacts a site's rankings. Additionally, it covers various link building strategies and lists a ton of tools and resources to help you find links.

Posted by Lucy Langdon Good presentation skills are essential in the SEO industry. As well as the multitude of conferences that feature so prominently in our industry, we are also often called on to present SEO clearly )and favourably!( to potential clients and sceptical CEOs. Having submitted an ambitious number of pitches to SMX London, several of Distilled attended an excellent presentation on presentation skills last week.

Posted by interactivevoices 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. As my Dad always says, "It's better to be on page 2 in the editorial than on page 7 as an advertisement." This advice has been the guiding principle when it comes to the public relations strategy at Voices.com. In fact,

Posted by Nick Gerner Just a few short weeks ago we launched the last index update... and here we are to do it again. Ben 's gotten faster at his parts of the update, from four or five weeks to just two, with me dragging my feet for another week or so. So that's right, we're down to just three or four weeks between updates, with accompanying data freshness )which we still want to improve substantially(.

Posted by rebecca I've been neglecting the Thursday roundups lately due to chronic deadlines and client work taking precedent over sitting down for four hours and putting together a post full of links. However, since I've received clamorings to resume the roundup )and because Rand is sad that I haven't been blogging much lately(, I figured I'd hunker down and get you all up to date on what's been going on the past couple months.

Posted by ChasW Hi all, I'm Chas, the lead developer for Blogscape here at SEOmoz. I'd like to share a brief story about finding a semi-hidden link campaign while testing Blogscape this week. I watch the 'Movers and Shakers' feature of Blogscape somewhat obsessively - both to research Blogscape's quality of data and to keep up with the latest trends in the fast-moving web. Yesterday, I noticed that the number one fastest rising subdomain for last week was blog.

Posted by great scott! Ever wonder why it seems like certain SERPs are constantly up to date, when other take eons to get any movement? It often has to do with QDF, or Query Deserves Freshness; a component of the Google algorithm that pays special attention to queries that may need frequent updating, such as breaking news stories. When the engines recognize that the "best" results for a certain search may change drastically from day-to-day, or moment-to-moment,

Posted by Tom_C Hello, I'm here today to talk about Google penalties. There's much talk and confusion in the SEO industry about penalties. We're always seeing in Q&A questions like: Do I have a penalty? Why do I have a penalty? How can I get rid of my penalty? Unfortunately they're elusive to tie down. Since you get penalties )generally( for doing something wrong in Google's eyes they're not very forthcoming about what they do to you when they catch you.

Posted by RandyP 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. When creating a pay-per-click ad )PPC( ad, it is easy to overlook the importance of the display URL. However,

Posted by randfish I've been away from my "headsmacking" series )see the first 11 here ( a bit too long, and despite an early morning flight to Reykjavik tomorrow for the RIMC , this subject is certainly deserving of attention. Besides, Mystery Guest always says I can sleep when I'm dead :-( Oftentimes, SEOs and webmasters create great content, only to apply it in sub-optimal ways. Ideally, if you create a great piece of content - a guide, a post, a photo/graphic/video,