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,

Posted by great scott! Not unlike investing, when it comes to link acquisition diversity is key. Evidence points to a strong preference by the engines for a diverse link profile rather than a homogeneous one, even if the links in a narrow profile are from strong sites. In this week's WBF, we'll look at why a wide variety of linking domains is better than repeated links, even from very strong domains: it's all about trust.

Posted by jennita Disclaimer: This article consists of our favorite articles of the past year and does not have actionable SEO techniques. Please read on if you're interested in knowing more about us, and what we like! This week I've been personally invested in Gwen Bell's The Best of 2009 Blog Challenge aka #best09 . The idea is that each day in December you reflect on the past year and write about a different topic each day. Obviously you can write every day,

Posted by Nick Gerner As we rapidly approach the end of 2009 and opening of 2010, we've got a much anticipated index update ready to roll out gang. Say it with me "twenty-ten". Oh yeah, I'm so gonna get a flying car and a cyberpunk android :( ...Ahem. I thought this would be a great time to take a look back at the year and ask, "where did all those pages go?" Being a data-driven kind of guy, I want to take a look at some numbers about churn,

Posted by randfish Yesterday night I stayed up way too late authoring a post on Google's Indexation Cap . Today, despite getting up way too early, I wanted to follow up and answer some of the questions from the comments, Twitter and my email. I think SEOs who read the post rightly asked for more direction in solving this problem - a fair request. Below, I've done my best to tackle these problems visually,

Posted by randfish Thanks so much for all your votes and feedback on our PRO Webinar Series over the holiday weekend. We received 285 responses and we're taking your suggestions very seriously and conducting the webinar as you've requested :-( Here are the stats from the questionairre/form )you can still fill it out if you'd like to give more input(: Will you be able to attend the PRO Webinar on Dec. 10th at 11am Pacific )2pm Eastern, 7pm London(? 74% - Yes,

Posted by randfish Over the past 2 years, SEOmoz has worked with quite a number of websites whose primary goal )or primary problem( in SEO has been indexation - getting more of their pages included in Google's index so they have the opportunity to rank well. These are, obviously, long tail focused sites that earn the vast majority of their visits from queries that bring in 5 or fewer searches each day. In this post,

Posted by Tom_C There are literally a bazillion SEO tools on the internet )literally!(, this post discusses just one such tool; Xenu's Link Sleuth. Many people in the SEO industry are already aware of this tool but many people I've spoken to only treat the tool as a broken link finder. It's so much more than that.

Posted by randfish First off, I hope everyone among our US )and expat( readers had a great holiday weekend, filled with tryptophan and football )I know mine was(. Second, I'm very excited to announce that SEOmoz PRO is launching our first ever webinar on Thursday Dec. 10th at 11am Pacific )2pm Eastern, 7pm London/UK(. We've heard from a number of our members that they'd like to do some live reviewing of strategies and recommendations and get questions tackled in this format.

Posted by great scott! Happy belated Thanksgiving my American moz-Comrades, and welcome to Black Whiteboard Friday )and just Friday to everyone else(! This week we're looking at analytics. No, not the normal stuff you probably pay attention to, but a few sneaky little metrics that can give you some great SEO insight. Since it's now officially the "Holidays," I'm not going to reveal too much; rather, I'll let the video serve as an early gift, ready to be opened!

Posted by Sam Niccolls Google Displaying Site Hierarchies in SERPs: Google provides yet another reason to have sound site architecture. Google Displaying Movie Times in SERPs: In addition to the many other things Google is testing , movie showtimes are being shown in the SERPs. ACC Approves Microsoft Yahoo Deal in Canada & Australia: After a 40 day review the ACC approved the deal which will allow Bing to power Yahoo search results in Canada & Australia.

Posted by jennita Photo courtesy of Michael Dorausch It has been a couple weeks since PubCon and yes, it's taken me this long to recuperate! Bare with me here as I reminisce about my favorite tidbits over the 3 days of sessions. PubCon does an amazing job of putting together a schedule that covers a multitude of tracks and topics. Which usually means that I often end up with a case of "session envy." You know,

Posted by randfish The long tail of search demand has been around since the dawn of web search and, since that time, search marketers have been attempting to tap into the powerful stream that high quantities of unique content can provide. I recently came across some great data from Hitwise )about 1 year old, but still highly relevant( showing off just how substantive the long tail can be. Bill Tancer's post - Sizing Up the Long Tail - gives some stats: .

Posted by randfish I'm a big Google fan - my wife often sleeps in their t-shirts, I speak on panels with Googlers all the time and I've even got a Google water bottle for working out )which happens all of once a month these days(. However, I am NOT a fan of the Google link command, and I'm shocked by the number of folks who operate in and around the SEO, webdev and technology industries who haven't realized this.