Sorry this site requires JavaScript to be enabled in your browser. See the following guide on How to enable JavaScript in Internet Explorer, Netscape, Firefox and Safari. Alternatively you may be blocking JavaScript with an advert-related or developer plugin. Please check your browser plugins.

joehall


As SEO's we view links as a form of digital currency, that can be bought, sold, bartered, or gained through attention manipulation. However for the rest of internet this isn't always the case. Scott Rosenberg makes the argument that for many people… Read more
Comment3 Comments  
Great post with 5 simple strategies to increasing your personal brand and building links simultaneously. Read more
Comment6 Comments  
Melanie Nathan shares some great advice from years of link building experience on how to go about buying links and not getting dinged by Google. Read more
Comment4 Comments  
Earlier this year, Danny Sullivan of Third Door Media asked me if SEOmoz could put together some data comparing ranking elements of Google against those of Bing to help illustrate the potential biases SEOs might face when optimizing for the two engines.… Read more
Comment1 Comments  

Lisa Barone single-handedly liveblogged seventeen (!!) sessions, from New York SES. Not sure if she survived, but she was at least kind enough to collapse after providing all of the coverage.

Read more
Comment2 Comments  
Superb interview with Hugo Guzman about his diverse range of SEO experience with his own sites, as a private SEO consultant, as an in-house SEO as well as his current role within an interactive agency. Read more
CommentDiscuss  
Alan puts down some good suggestions for things you want to think about doing SEO Audits Read more
CommentDiscuss  
MajesticSEO have built a new tool that allows you to use its data to get backlink counts (and domain backlink counts) in bulk and export to CSV. Read more
Comment6 Comments  
Usually it’s with some of the most popular social communities like Digg, Flickr, YouTube, Facebook, etc. How many social media enthusiasts and search marketers actually stop to consider their Google profiles though? Read more
CommentDiscuss  
Social media news aggregation sites help people find great content from their favorite sources without having to weed through all the other sub-par content to find it. This is done by a democratic system of voting and homepage promotion for these stories. Read more
CommentDiscuss  
Forget the hype... just the facts.. excellent summary of where we are in search right now and a glimpse into where we need to be headed. Read more
Comment3 Comments  
Lisa Barone gives an excellent rebuttal to advice given by Robert Scoble to small businesses to ignore SEO. Read more
Comment8 Comments  
Dave Snyder writes: The citation method of ranking indexed content is flawed. It is based on human aid, and any technology based on the work of humans is always going to have flaws. Links are the product of what elicits an emotion from website owners,… Read more
Comment4 Comments  
The most obvious thing was the ability to real time spam Google’s results. A quick search for [Sphinn won't allow the word] showed the real time results at the very top of the SERP, right under the news results… Read more
Comment9 Comments  

Lisa Barone does it once again with coverage of 17, count em 17, PubCon sessions from the 2009 Vegas show. I don't know how she does it, but here is the full list of sessions covered.

Read more
Comment2 Comments  
If you couldn't make it to SMX East, here's everything you need to know about what went down and who said what straight from the Outspoken Media blog.  Liveblogged coverage of all 15 sessions. Read more
Comment8 Comments  
Julie Joyce gives great practical advice on how to find the perfect link building targets Read more
CommentDiscuss  
Lisa barone writes, "Wow. I’d personally like to welcome Seth Godin to the world of brandjacking and hostage taking. I didn’t know you had it in you." Read more
Comment1 Comments  
Lisa Barone wraps up liveblogging another conference - this time Affiliate Summit East 09. If you weren't able to make it, you'll find full coverage of 12 of the most popular sessions here! Read more
Comment2 Comments  
Rand Fishkin walks us through 10 Tips For Advanced Keyword Research. Read more
CommentDiscuss  
From Jill Whalen: With the latest brouhaha over PageRank sculpting, the boondoggle nature of many techniques that pass for SEO has become clearer than ever. A “boondoggle” is defined at Wordnet as “work of little or no value done merely to look… Read more
Comment14 Comments  
Imagine playing the “Six Degrees of Separation” game, but with websites. The closer you are to having a link from Maclean’s magazine or Time, the better. Read more
CommentDiscuss  
Bing’s much awaited launch caused some real buzz in the Internet world. Check out this interview with Rajesh Srivastava, Principle Group Manager, Bing. See what went into launching Bing, from choosing the name to discussion about its algorithm. Read more
Comment1 Comments  
Ok peeps.... I’d been hearing WAY too much about so called ’real time’ search engines of late and thought I’d put a few musings together on it (and some rudimentary testing). If you’d care to leave some feedback on it - I’d… Read more
Comment2 Comments  
Sharing stories on social voting and bookmarking sites both grows your social media profile power and enables you to reach your audience. Surprisingly enough, being one of the most important element of the story success, proper tagging is very often… Read more
Comment2 Comments  


Upcoming Conferences

Search Marketing ExpoSearch Engine Land produces SMX, the Search Marketing Expo conference series. SMX events deliver the most comprehensive educational and networking experiences - whether you're just starting in search marketing or you're a seasoned expert.



Join us at an upcoming SMX event:

Upcoming Webcasts

Search Marketing Now Learn more about search marketing with our free online webcasts and webinars from our sister site, Search Marketing Now. Upcoming online events include: