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Posted by Aaron Wheeler A couple of weeks ago, Rand went over his general SEO checklist for new websites. It’s a great resource to reference and help give your site that initial advantage other new sites don’t have. Keep in mind, though, that there are other factors at play when trying to rank in the …

Posted by randfish I’m constantly recommending thought leadership as a marketing strategy and, frequently, getting a lot of pushback. It started when I was a consultant, but continues to this day. It usually goes something along the lines of: Other Person: It’s easy to be a thought leader in the fields you just showed, but …

Posted by Cyrus Shepard This week we noticed a new feature in our Google Analytics account – a  set of reports called “Search Engine Optimization.” Google announced that these reports are out of beta and now available to all users. Is Google really going to help us with our SEO? The reports are found in …

Posted by PhilNottingham When the iPad first came out, like many people, I didn’t really get it. My initial thoughts were something along the lines of "Steve… what the hell?! You’ve produced a giant iPod and are somehow trying to claim its some sort of brilliant new product." I resolved never to buy one, considering …

Posted by Aaron Wheeler It’s often pretty difficult to make a short title for a webpage that offers a lot of varied or super-specific information. At SEOmoz, we say that the best practice for title tag length is to keep titles under 70 characters. That’s pretty pithy considering that the title also includes your site …

Posted by chadburgess 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 know before the cards are even turned over…" – Mike …

Posted by iPullRank Before I even start saying anything about keyword research I want to take my hat off to Richard Baxter because the tools and methodologies he shared at MozCon make me feel silly for even thinking about bringing something to the Keyword Research table. Now with that said, I have a few ideas …

Posted by Cyrus Shepard Good news to all you link builders out there. SEOmoz just updated the PRO SEO Web Directory List. The long overdue update includes over 400 directories (up from 180) separated into three categories – Web, Local and Social. Wait, aren’t link directories dead? The practice of obtaining links from online directories …

Posted by Bryce Howard Howdy folks! I wish I was writing you with better news, but in the spirit of TAGFEE, we want you to be as informed as possible about your PRO membership:  Due to a major PRO web crawler service outage that occurred on Friday evening, crawler-related PRO features (link analysis and crawl …

Posted by Dr. Pete As part of our quest to understand the Algorithm, we do a lot of correlation analysis here at SEOmoz. We tend to dive right into the deep end, so I thought it might be a good time to take a step back and talk about the absolute basics of correlation, including …

Posted by Aaron Wheeler Over 160,000 new top-level domains were registered yesterday. 160,000! This huge volume of new sites being birthed wasn’t unique to yesterday; this happens every day (you can check out today’s progress at DailyChanges.com). The sites that start out pre-optimized and that continue optimizing immediately after publishing will be at an incredible …

Posted by randfish In two weeks, we’ll be making the first spots available for the beta of a highly anticipated (and heavily requested) feature: social media analytics inside the PRO web app. The beta will launch with Facebook and Twitter, and in months to come we may add LinkedIn and Google+. For now, though, we’d …