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by randfish 15y ago
I was never actually aware of the "market research" definition; this is the first I've heard of it. At Moz, I've long been looking for a phrase that means "content marketing + white hat SEO + social media + email marketing + conversion rate
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by randfish 15y ago
+1 - that's pretty much spot on. HasOffers gives us the ability to manage our own affiliate system.
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by randfish 15y ago
Hey Dan - at 71:51, the gentleman re-asks the question (after I tackled the first part) and I give an answer :-)
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by randfish 15y ago
Moz maintains a recommended list here - http://www.seomoz.org/marketplace/companies/recommended that might be helpful. Wish you luck!
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Saving a Life is Easy, But I Didn't(danshapiro.com)
390 points by randfish 15y ago|98 comments
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by randfish 15y ago
That's been my experience. Not only will the blog's pages rank better by being on the main domain, they'll also help the rest of the site's content rank better by bolstering that location's authority. That said, I don't want to suggest this
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by randfish 15y ago
Yes, you're totally cool to use either site.tld or www.site.tld. I'd recommend using a 301 redirect of one to the other (Google and Bing are pretty good at automatically canonicalizing these, but not perfect). The trouble comes when you seg
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by randfish 15y ago
Yeah. Have to agree with you here. I just tested this recently , getting a few hundred retweets of an obscure URL ranking on page 4 for an obscure term and it moved to page 2 within a few days. I suspect Google may not be getting Twitter da
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by randfish 15y ago
This is a good point. One interesting thing we found with the more growth-focused funds (and the growth-focused parts of traditional VCs) is that at high valuations and high dollar amounts in, they tend to look for 3-5X returns, rather than
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by randfish 15y ago
Yeah - the growth has been quite good. I think this would have let us work faster and more directly on "next big things" - projects that wouldn't have fast ROI, but might be very exciting from a customer value and technology perspective. We
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by randfish 15y ago
If you read the piece, you can see that we were actually approached by investors in a bunch of geographies - SF, the Valley, Boston, NYC, even San Diego. We ended up signing something with a firm in NY, but were not geographically biased in
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by randfish 15y ago
I think http://onstartups.com run by Dharmesh Shah is probably the closest thing to what you're seeking.
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by randfish 15y ago
It's actually a legacy thing. When I first started Moz in 2003, it was just a blog, with no commercial intent, so I redirected the .com to the .org and kept it there. It's likely that we'll move to .com in the near future, though. Even with
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by randfish 15y ago
I'm hugely passionate about SEO, but, perhaps anachronistically, I'd urge you to go with something brandable over something that's merely a keyword match. Of course, if you can do both, and you love the name, that's awesome, but personally,
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by randfish 15y ago
Hi - Rand here, CEO at Moz. This story's inaccurate in a few ways: 1) We have not raised any capital. I posted about seeking investment here - http://randfishkin.com/blog/113/inflection-points-bravery-vs... - but no developments since. A
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by randfish 15y ago
Awesome to meet so many Seattle HN folks. Sorry I had to bail a bit early. Looking forward to potentially hosting the next one at Moz (or Estately if Galen wins the arm wrestling contest) :-)
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Adventures w/ VC Outside the Valley (Or How to Get Screwed)(timbull.com)
27 points by randfish 15y ago|2 comments
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by randfish 15y ago
I've loved SEO with every fiber of my being for close to a decade. It's an absolutely phenomenal field filled with complexity, challenges, rewards for creativity, attention to metrics and execution. It's hard to find or imagine a business e
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Experiments Suggest Both Google+ and Twitter Influence Search Results(seomoz.org)
5 points by randfish 15y ago|0 comments
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by randfish 15y ago
It's not the norm, but it has helped us a bit, and to be honest, it's still less expensive than most recruiters. When you're hiring positions between $90-$150K, recruiters want 20-30% of that first year's salary, so spending $24K to build a
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by randfish 15y ago
Seattle, WA - SEOmoz is hiring primarily local positions, but may have some flexibility on remote, particularly for engineers. Here are our 8 open positions currently - http://www.seomoz.org/blog/8-open-positions-at-seomoz and please note
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by randfish 15y ago
I think if folks here (or the public in general) knew how common this was, they'd be shocked and outraged. I can say with quite a bit of conviction, experience and data that this is incredibly common - even overwhelmingly so. My conservativ
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by randfish 15y ago
I appreciate and empathize with the perspective presented in this post, but I can't help but feel that an inherently negative stereotype is being created merely through language with the use of "business guys." If the author means very spec
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by randfish 15y ago
When I talked with Tim, I had three ideas for monetization. His/Alex's may indeed be even better. #1 - Sponsorships/promotions on topically-specific "top" pages. Advertisers (like my company) pay top dollar for highly focused branding to sp
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by randfish 15y ago
I'm really disappointed in YC on this one. I'm sure there were some awesome companies selected, but http://trunk.ly flat out rocks. I have no vested interest at all. I'm not an investor, not an advisor, just a user and a fan. Trunkly's be
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by randfish 16y ago
I think you're correct that Comscore controls for/removes links to searches (like Bing's news links) but not for the queries done "in network" (at least, not that I'm aware of).
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by randfish 16y ago
Important to keep in mind that when Hitwise/Comscore/Nielsen/etc. measure "Microsoft/Bing powered searches" they're including a LOT of searches that never leave MS/Yahoo's sites. If you do a search on MSN Autos or Yahoo! News or in Facebook
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by randfish 16y ago
Liked this post and certainly agree with the advice. If anyone's planning a hackathon in Seattle, we'd love to contribute/sponsor and possibly even host (if it's after-hours or on a weekend). Just drop me a line - rand at seomoz dot org
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by randfish 16y ago
We just launched a recruiting promotion at SEOmoz ( http://www.seomoz.org/dp/engineer-page ) and would love to have you apply! If you know or bump into other dev friends at SXSW or in Seattle, feel free to send some of those folks over too
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by randfish 16y ago
If you made the link from the http://www.seomoz.org/refer-an-engineer page using your email address, we actually would track it back to you (cool feature of Jobvite - you can set it up to tweet/FB share/email links w/ your tracking code).

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