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for: ‘January, 2010’

Indexation for SEO: Real Numbers in 5 Easy Steps

Posted by randfish How many pages has Google indexed? This question and the problems surrounding it run rampant through the SEO world. It usually arises when someone starts doing searches like this: Google claims to have 93,800 pages indexed on the root domain, seomoz.org. That sounds pretty good, but when I ran that search query …

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Peer Review: SEO Best Practices for Duplicate Content

Posted by Danny Dover This post is part of an ongoing series where my co-workers and I are working to build a freely available resource center of up-to-date SEO best practices. As we write this content, we are submitting them for peer review so that everyone on the Internet can benefit from collective intelligence. You …

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Offline Reading List: Magazines and Books for SEOs

Posted by RobOusbey This week, I’d like to make suggestions for a ‘reading list‘ to help SEOs, and others who work online, particularly with website strategies. But this list isn’t going to be blogs, post and online articles, oh no. These suggestions are entirely offline. We’re going into dead tree mode with eleven books and …

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Whiteboard Friday – Domain Authority & Page Authority Metrics

Posted by great scott! This week we’ve got a special Whiteboard Friday double feature! As you’ve probably heard, we launched our new link checker and backlink analysis tool, Open Site Explorer, this week and it makes use of some exciting new metrics: Domain Authority and Page Authority. We asked our old chum, Will Critchlow, to …

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One Giant Leap for Link Data: Announcing Open Site Explorer + Page/Domain Authority Metrics

Posted by randfish For the past 15 months, we’ve been working hard to improve Linkscape, our index of the WWW. Today, we’re releasing an entirely new platform for Linkscape’s index with more accessible data than ever before. And, for the next 48 hours, full functionality is available entirely for free: The new tool, Open Site …

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Q & A About Using Q & A Sites to Build Your Business & Reputation

Posted by Gil Reich 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. Q&A sites are a great way to get your message …

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Keyword Targeting: How to Employ Multiple Keywords for SEO & Conversions

Posted by randfish At some point during your University’s SEO 201: Advanced Keyword Research & Targeting class, they probably gave a few lectures and case studies on how to effectively split up your keyword research list across multiple pages and use those terms/phrases to maximum benefit. But, for those who might have missed that lesson …

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I Turned the Google Toolbar Off, But It Kept Spying On Me…

Ben Edelman: “Although I had asked that the Google Toolbar be “disable[d],” and although the Google Toolbar disappeared from view, my network monitor revealed that Google Toolbar continued to transmit my browsing to its toolbarqueries.google.com server”

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Google AdWords Tax Calculator

Many experienced advertisers realize that there are many gotchas in the AdWords system…optimization tools and default setting which optimize to boost Google’s yield at the expense of unsuspecting advertisers, who don’t yet know what match types are or that their ads are syndicated to content sites by default. To help new advertisers get past many …

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All Shades of Gray

Does Google like auto-generated websites wrapped in Google AdSense ads? The short answer is no. The long answer is a bit more convoluted. But so long as they are… well branded well funded operating at scale good at public relations wrapped in AdSense ads …the answer is yes, autogenerated websites full of scraped content are …

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Google Reader Lets You Track Changes on “Feedless” Sites

Ever wanted to track or monitor changes that happen on your favorite websites but could not do it because the sites don’t have feeds?  Now you can do that with Google Reader.  It now lets you create custom feed for those sites which don’t available feeds. The process is similar when your adding subscriptions to …

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Do Facebook and Twitter Threaten or Complement the News Industry?

Five reporters from radio stations in in Canada, France, Belgium, and Switzerland are going to spend five days locked in a French farmhouse with only Twitter and Facebook to get their news. It’s not a lame reality show, but an experiment looking at the quality of news from social media. This experiment may be flawed …

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