If you buy that Google is using social signals such as Twitter to calculate rankings (I do, and I wrote about it here on SEOmoz), then you probably also believe that Google takes the relevancy and activity of your followers into account when deciding if you are a reputable source of information for the content […]
Wednesday was the first day of Mozcon in Seattle, WA. I’ve been to a couple of SEO conferences, two Distilled conferences to be exact and I wrote recaps of London here and Boston here. Mozcon has continued to raise the bar for SEO conferences I think, and here are links to Storify renditions of the […]
Tony Wright has been around the SEO and startup world for quite some time. He was tasked with showing us how some sites have competed in spaces that are extremely competitive, and did so in a bootstrapper, scrappy way. This talk was inspiring, and actually gave me a huge linkbuilding idea for a client. That’s […]
Hannah Smith is an SEO Consultant in our UK branch. She has been at the company for a few years and has, as she said to me, “fallen into” international SEO. Hannah is a delight to be around, and that came through in her talk as she dropped some very technical and insightful knowledge on […]
Ian Lurie is an expert in the content marketing world, running his site Conversation Marketing. As a former content writer (and a writer here) I love reading his stuff. He is a phenomenal speaker, and puts quite a science between his work as well! I have never thought so hard about writing content, but Ian […]
SEOmoz’s own Jamie Stevens, the only MBA at SEOmoz apparently, put us to school about building a brand and maintaining it. I was personally surprised that Moz does not automate any of this, especially social mentions, but my main takeaway from Jamie’s talk with consistency, consistency, consistency. If you make changes slowly, and allow your […]