Posted by randfish I know, I know. Google's indexing Flash and Flash developers can rejoice now that their content is SEO-friendly. Sorry - I don't buy it for a second. Flash content is fundamentally different from HTML on webpage URLs and being able to parse links in the Flash code and text sn...

Posted by randfish This one keeps popping up, so I'm taking a short blog post to address it as quickly and efficiently as possible (mostly because I have an SEOmoz board meeting tomorrow, so I need my zzzs). Many SEOs ask themselves how many individual word and phrases are ideal to target toget...

Posted by randfish Google's been pretty clear - buy or sell links, particularly those that come from broker-type services, and we'll take steps to penalize your site. At one time, this meant simply de-valuing the links that come from paid sources, essentially erasing them from the link graph so...

Posted by randfish At the beginning of last week, I asked for your questions and recieved more than a hundred! As promised, here's a first round of answers to those queries, and, not surprisingly, I think there's some terrific material in here for everyone who reads SEOmoz or works in the SEO or sta...

Posted by randfish It's been a while since I saw a post that I felt really did this topic justice, and, to be honest, I've worked on this one on and off for a couple months now (which means, of course, that I had to rewrite largely from scratch to keep the flow positive). Rather than go into great d...

Posted by randfish (WARNING: This post is a little personal, a little off-topic and doesn't offer any SEO advice. If that's not up your alley, feel free to skip it. Thanks!) The flight monitor status shows us hovering dead center on the icy, arrow-shaped island. Mystery Guest is next to me, watching...

Posted by randfish Yes, whiny title writer, you most certainly do. Check out this piece from the AP on PapaJohns.com: The nation's third-largest pizza delivery chain trumpeted the $1 billion milestone Wednesday, noting that its U.S. online sales have been growing at an average clip of more than 50 p...

Posted by randfish Over the past few days, I've seen a lot of questions in our Q+A section and across the blogosphere that suggest it's time for some direct answers from the search engines on major issues that affect business practices, consulting and website building. Here are the ones I belie...

Posted by randfish For the years from 1998-2005, Google and webmasters were like nerds and dating - separated by an unwritten code that kept them far away from one another. With the exception of the occasional comment by GoogleGuy on the forums or Matt Cutts at an industry show, there was virtually ...

Posted by randfish As SMX Sydney wound to a close on the north bank of Sydney harbor, I stood with new friends and old, eating shrimp off the barbie (no, really), drinking beer and staring at the incredible view of the Sydney Opera House & the Harbor Bridge. Was this the best conference I'v...