Google and Yahoo transformed how we find information. But now social media is creating real-time content that requires special search engines. As online publishing platforms and social networks have exploded in popularity, there is a new need to aggregate and search the dynamic “real-time” web. New platforms hold much promise for marketers who want to …
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for: ‘September, 2010’
Build Your Own Weighted Sort (GA Style)
Posted by Dr. Pete If you’re a Google Analytics fan, you probably already know that Google released a new and incredibly useful featured called Weighted Sort. If you haven’t seen it, here’s a quick example – let’s say you want to know which of your referring sites have the highest bounce rate. You could pull …
Link Building 101 – The Almost Complete Link Guide
Posted by scott.mclay 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 has changed since I got into link building a …
What is Mobile Search Engine Transcoding?
Posted by Suzzicks Ok, in the mobile world, it is important to understand that Google sometimes lies (Uhhh! Say it ain’t so!) Actually, all of the major search engines do it with mobile results – It is called ‘transcoding.’ In some cases, the search engines will want to rank a particular page in mobile results, …
SEO Strategy: Predicting Yearly Site Traffic
Posted by Kate Morris As a consultant, I work with many In-House SEO teams with strategy and other issues that arise throughout the course of the year. One trend we are seeing is that these In-House teams are having a hard time coming up with accurate traffic-centered goals. Traffic is the base for many metrics …
Exportable PDF Reports Now in the Web App
Posted by randfish Since the launch of our beta web app, the #1 feature request from folks writing in to us has been the inclusion of exportable, PDF reports. Today, I heard from our engineering and product teams that these are complete! You’ll find CSV and PDF exports on most of the reports in the web app …
Discussing LDA and SEO – Whiteboard Friday
Posted by Danny Dover In this week’s Whiteboard Friday Rand Fishkin and Ben Hendrickson discuss LDA (Latent Dirichlet Allocation) and SEO (Search Engine Optimization). There has been a lot of discussion about the relationship between these two topics lately and this video answers many of the questions people in the community have been asking. It …
Priceless CRO Advice for $224
Posted by Dr. Pete The past few years have seen an explosion of usability and Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO) tools hit the market. There have been many good roundup posts about these tools, but I want to focus today on a more in-depth approach to putting just 3 of these tools to work: (1) Five …
