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Posted by randfish Starting up your own consulting agency can be quite a difficult process and often times the most challenging step to your endeavour will be finding new customers or clients. In this week's Whiteboard Friday we will be covering some tips and tactics that you can use to get referrals and win customers. [...]

Posted by Designbysoap Ltd 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. It doesn’t matter whether you’re an on-site SEO consultant, a [...]

If you use a search engine but don’t find what you are looking for, which are you more likely to do? People are more likely to search again with a new keyword than they are to click onto the second page of search results. Vote All (1189)  search again with a different word 55.7% (+3.2 / -3.3) [...]

Negative SEO vs Sabotage Just about any independent SEO worth their weight who publishes a number of websites has at least once hit a snag & been filtered or penalized. A person can say “not me” but how do they operate optimally in both the short term and long term if they never operate near [...]

Posted by robkerry SEOmoz and I don't always see eye to eye on industry issues, but I still have a lot of respect for the company. In fact SEOmoz is still the website that I send people to, when they want to learn about SEO or get into our industry. Rand kindly invited me to [...]

I am already getting fake webmaster tool notification messages using the above subject line & the following message: Hello dear managers of http://www.seobook.com/! My name is Olivia, and the issue I’m gonna to discuss is for sure not new, but really actual and complicated, otherwise your website and therefore business wouldn’t have lost their favourable [...]

Before I get any drops of jupiter hate on the following…I was typing in training.seobook.com & somehow accidentally hit enter after typing train & when the URL completion didn’t work I got the following SERP. If you click the feature video link it does a YouTube video overlay. The other links lead into the relevant [...]

Posted by Dr. Pete Google’s war on lovable critters escalated on April 24th with the release of the “Penguin” update (originally dubbed the “webspam update” by Google). While every major algorithm update causes some protest, post-Penguin panic seems to be at near record levels, worsened by weeks of speculation about an “over-optimization” penalty. Webmasters and SEOs [...]

Posted by neilpatel 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. Do you have what it takes to become a superstar blogger? [...]

Huge Update Google recently launched their webspam Penguin update. While they claim it only impacted about 3.1% of search queries, the 3.1% it impacted were largely in the “commercial transactional keywords worth a lot of money” category. Based on the number of complaints online about it (there is even a petition!) this is likely every [...]