Posted by randfish If you've been in the SEO world a while, you're undoubtedly employing search queries to help discover and earn links (e.g. this blog post, this search query cheatsheet PDF, our LAA tool in Labs, etc). Query lists are handy to help in the manual link building process, but most of what's out there is designed for very direct, obvious link acquisition methodologies. This post is to help with some more obscure, less direct link building tactics. #1 - Awards Nearly every city, every industry and many communities on the web have annual awards they give to individuals, websites or companies. If...

We were about to scrape the title off but didn’t. It’s much of a claim on our end, but after a year of blogging about business cards, we’ve decided to try writing such article. Anyway, we trust that you’ll help us make this post more comprehensive by commenting below. So much has changed in the years since business cards have first been used and it is amazing how people have shifted from one particular style to another. Designers for one, always have an excuse to have a new batch of cards printed out. Business cards, after all, are indispensable tools in...

Posted by Aaron WheelerHello everybody! My name is Aaron Wheeler and I do customer service here at SEOmoz; if you call us or email us, there's a 50% chance you'll end up talking to me. Oh well! Your loss is my gain. =) Anyways, one of my new tasks in the office will be video production so you may end up seeing my gob around the blog every once in a while. I'll be the main one posting these Whiteboard Fridays in the future as well as some of the other glorious cinema we create to vitalize your ears and...

E-commerce design requires much of the same design knowledge and skill as any other type of web design. The pages are built from many of the same elements – headers, footers, columns, graphics, and text, among other things. But there are additional elements that need to be considered, from both a design and usability standpoint. Site architecture is often more complicated, with products sometimes falling into multiple categories. Product pages need to be laid out in a way that makes it easy for customers to see exactly what it is they’re getting. And the checkout process needs to be as...

.valentines-design img {border:none!important} Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. It’s one of those holidays that presents plenty of design possibilities, from cards to website modifications. But sometimes it can be a little puzzling when trying to figure out where to start. And other times, you just don’t have enough free time to create what you had in mind completely from scratch. That’s where the resources we’ve gathered below can come in handy. We’ve found some great tutorials that can show you how to create some Valentine’s Day-inspired artwork. And we’ve also rounded up a ton of great stock resources for you,...