Posted by great scott! A couple of weeks ago, Rand mentioned “awesome links” in the Buckets & Buckets of Keywords Whiteboard Friday.  Since then we’ve had several people ask us exactly what makes a link awesome?  Well, never fear, that’s what we’ll discuss today: what makes a link particularly high-quality and powerful, and how one [...]

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Posted by randfish No intro, just right to the content: #10 – Jane’s been on vacation for two weeks and we’ve gotten a bit behind with Q+A. #9 – It’s the two slowest weeks of the working year (apart from Xmas), and the dev team is buckling down (as per Seth’s advice) to shoot for [...]

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Posted by great scott! This week Rand gets a bit technical with a whirlwind walkthrough of how the search engine link graph works. Fully-qualified domains, pay-level domains, internal juice, external juice, domain trust, etc. It’s all explained in this fast and furious installment of Whiteboard Friday…enjoy! SEOmoz Whiteboard Friday – How the Link Graph Works [...]

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Posted by great scott! This week we’ve got a quick and dirty Whiteboard Friday about how to make use of all of those social media profiles you’ve been building. The trick: don’t let them sit idle! You’ve got to network them a little in order for them to do you any good (read: links and [...]

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Posted by great scott! This week, Rand (semi-reluctantly) takes a look at everybody’s favorite new time-waster application: Twitter.  He outlines a few points that may help late adopters get over the hump and realize that, while it may seem a little silly, Twitter can actually have considerable social and marketing value to those of us [...]

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