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7 Essential Google Intelligence Custom Alerts That Keep Me Sane

Posted by RebeccaLehmann 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 a data analyst tracking more than 300 websites, the numbers …

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Top 5 SEO Questions from Customers – Whiteboard Friday

Posted by Aaron Wheeler Howdy mozzers! This week we have a very special guest on Whiteboard Friday – me! That’s right, after filming these videos and posting them on the blog for the past six months, they’re finally putting me in front of the camera for your viewing… pleasure… (Well, my mom’s viewing pleasure at least. …

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Sharing Everything I Learned As A Top-Tier SEO Consultant at SEOmoz

Posted by Danny Dover 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. Prepare to stay out late, polish your dancing shoes and …

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Exactly How Powerful Are Tweets & Retweets? Help Us Find Out!

Posted by jennita Over the last few months we’ve heard a lot of talk about how social signals are starting to influence rankings, but how powerful are those tweets really? Today I wanted to explore what we know so far, take a look at some examples, then push the envelope a bit with another test. …

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Restricting Robot Access for Improved SEO

Posted by Lindsay Left to their own devices, search engine spiders will often perceive important pages as junk, index content that shouldn’t serve as a user entry point, generate duplicate content, along with a slew of other issues. Are you doing everything you can to guide bots through your website and make the most of …

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Netflix Lays Down Its Bets on "House of Cards"

Netflix served notice of its official arrival on the Hollywood scene this afternoon, announcing a bold deal for first-run rights to the new David Fincher directed TV series, “House of Cards,” starring Kevin Spacey. Whereas the company has built a base of 20 million plus subscribers and a streaming franchise largely on catalog movies and …

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6 Reasons Why Q&A Sites Can Boost Your SEO in 2011 (Despite Google’s Farmer Update)

Posted by Pavel Israelsky 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. A lot of SEO predictions for 2011 were published in …

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Traffic Source Diversity is Essential for Successful SEO

Posted by randfish  I recently created some custom filters in Google Analytics to illustrate SEOmoz’s traffic over the past 12 months: SEOmoz’s Traffic Sources Distribution _Data from March 15, 2010 – March 14, 2011 Here’s the breakdown in percentages: Search (Google, Yahoo!, Bing, Baidu, etc.): 36.0% Direct (Bookmark + Type-In): 27.7% Feed (RSS via Feedburner): …

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Still No Consensus On Broadband ISP Usage Cap Policies

AT&T made big headlines this week for unveiling a plan to cap monthly usage by its DSL subscribers at 150GB and its U-Verse subscribers at 250GB. Whereas other broadband ISPs like Comcast have long had a 250GB cap in place, what’s different about AT&T’s plan is that it is proactively saying it will charge $10 …

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Hulu Also Making Move Into Original Video Production

While Netflix got a lot of attention this week for possibly moving to distribute an original TV series, “House of Cards,” an interesting scoop in Adweek notes that Hulu may also be looking to ramp up its original production efforts. According to the article, Hulu has been building two content groups, one focused on branded …

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ESPN Continues Dampening Cord-Cutting Fears

ESPN released the its latest round of research on cord-cutting this week, finding that a tiny .18% of American homes with both pay-TV service and a broadband connection dropped their video service between the fourth quarter of 2010 and the first quarter of 2011. ESPN said the .18% is actually lower than the .28% it …

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NeuLion Gets In the Game With NAIA Hoops Online

NCAA MMOD wasn’t the only online college basketball story this week, as video platform provider NeuLion announced that it is powering the NAIA’s men’s and women’s basketball tournament, also now underway. But whereas NCAA MMOD has pursued a free, ad-supported model, the NAIA games are only available through a subscription, with the full package running …

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