
Thanks for taking the time to share your knowledge with us today Rand. Most people involved in search engine optimization have heard of you and your company, SEOmoz, which provides a wealth of information, tools and resources for search engine optimization professionals. Can you tell us a little bit about yourself and how you got started in SEO? I started doing SEO in 2002/2003 as part of some web development and marketing contracts. I struggled with it personally, contracted some professional SEOs, didn’t have much success and so, dove into it headfirst. I’d spend hours reading forums, posting replies, testing changes and tweaks, building and re-building pages and conducting manual link building (the most horrifying task known to SEOs). In 2004, I started the SEOmoz blog as a place to post research, findings and get...