Posted by jschweitz

Since my background is more in web development and I’ve gotten into SEO only recently this is my first post here. I hope you find a use for it and please feel free to make any suggestions/comments. More development around the SEOmoz API is good for everyone so I’m sharing my first experience in developing a tool utilizing the great information provided by the API. To…

In our past articles, we’ve experimented with better ways to engage users on web pages with CSS3. We love getting into the nuts and bolts of web design by showing off some nifty coding tricks. In this article we’ll take a step back…

These speed tests were filmed at actual web page rendering times. If you’re interested in the technical details, read on!

Equipment used:

- Computer: MacBook Pro laptop with Windows installed
- Monitor – 24″ Asus: We had to replace the standard fluorescent backlight with very large tungsten fixtures to funnel in more light to capture the screen. In addition, we flipped the…

Posted by jtkaczuk

Measuring the frequency of Googlebot visits on following listing pages

Some time ago we conducted a research concerning indexation of subsequent listing pages. It was proven that the farther from the main category page (first page of the listing), the less chance that the page will be indexed, and that increasing the number of linked pages on the main page improved their indexation…

Last time we talked about how to get more visitors to your website.

They need a bit of help getting from where they are now, to where they need to be in order to buy your product. For more than a century, marketing experts have used the acronym AIDA to express a method of helping customers to make the decision to buy:

Attention Interest Desire Action

E. St.…

With advertising, a curious thing happens: most people want its benefits but are rarely willing to put up with its hassles. Those who run websites and applications have enough on their plates without having to worry about handling transactions, putting banners across their website or…

by Noah Fiedel, Blogger Tech Lead

Five weeks ago we rolled out Auto Pagination, a major milestone in our efforts to make Blogger faster for you and your readers. We are very happy to report a ten percent overall decrease in page loading latency across all Blogger blogs and a twenty-seven percent decrease on archive pages.

Just how significant is a ten percent latency reduction? It’s not often…

Posted by Fernando Chavez

Note from Darren Slatten (SEO Mofo and World’s Best SEO):
What’s up, Mozzers?! At one point or another, most of you have probably asked yourselves something like: "How did Darren Slatten become the World’s best SEO? Where did it all start?" Well, ladies and gentlemen, the author of this post, Fernando Chavez, was my mentor and direct supervisor over at…um…some big…

Long tail keyword tools are essential for small web entrepreneurs. You cannot compete for the most searched keywords — by now they have insurmountable competition. You must put together collections of micro niches which you can dominate. Each niche needs keywords by which people can find it. You need to do long tail keyword research to find those niches of low-competition keywords.

You need to find a large…

Posted by Errioxa

I have tried different ways to skip the first link that Google takes into account for a determined URL (nofollowed links, links with 301 redirections, etc). However, all these attempts had little success (301 works but it’s very suspect). Recently I made a test to see how Google handled the anchor links (links to different sections within the same page, ej: example.com/index.php#anything) and the…