‘Dream of the 90s’ is alive in Portland for SEOmoz: It just bought another Rose City startup

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In a recent episode of Portlandia, Fred and Carrie are sent on a mission to Seattle to evangelize the goodness of Portland. Maybe they knocked on the door of SEOmoz CEO Rand Fishkin. After all, Fishkin’s fast-growing Seattle software startup has made not one, not two, but three acquisitions in Portland in the past 12… Read More…

SEOmoz buys GetListed for $3 million to help small businesses track directory listings

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SEOmoz is gobbling up another Portland startup, this time acquiring GetListed for about $3 million in cash and stock. The deal follows SEOmoz’s acquisition of Portland-based social media analytics upstart FollowerWonk in August. Founded in 2009, GetListed operates a service that helps small businesses determine how their listing information is appearing on search engines such… Read More…

What your startup ought to know about Google search updates

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If you don’t keep up with the top search engine blogs or Google’s own search blog, then you likely miss out on the news about Google’s search quality updates. You might be surprised to find out that so far in 2012, there have been three Panda rollouts and over 100 other changes in addition to… Read More…

7 common SEO mistakes you’ve been making since 1995

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As an industry, SEO has been around since 1995, born during the early days of Yahoo. It really began to grow up, however, when Google started in the early 2000s. And in the last five years it’s definitely gotten more sophisticated…and even gone somewhat mainstream. So you would think that most people understand the basics… Read More…

SEOMoz considers $20M to $30M VC round, but Rand Fishkin says no ‘done deal’ yet

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SEOMoz CEO Rand Fishkin may raise a massive venture capital round in the range of $20 million to $30 million. Then, again, he may not.  I guess that’s the luxury of being a fast growing — not to mention profitable — startup company these days. You’ve got options, and Fishkin has plenty of them. Earlier… Read More…