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	<title>Comments on: SEOMoz Takes $1.25 Million Series A</title>
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		<title>By: Shravan</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/18/seomoz-takes-125-million-series-a/comment-page-1/#comment-2686838</link>
		<dc:creator>Shravan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>congrats!</description>
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		<title>By: Sam Dodd</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/18/seomoz-takes-125-million-series-a/comment-page-1/#comment-2620537</link>
		<dc:creator>Sam Dodd</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:57:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Congrats Rand and Team!   SEOMOZ provides a great service and they deserved this.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Congrats Rand and Team!   SEOMOZ provides a great service and they deserved this.</p>
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		<title>By: seo tool</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/18/seomoz-takes-125-million-series-a/comment-page-1/#comment-2488833</link>
		<dc:creator>seo tool</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:23:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>i wonder what they will be releasing come next week o_O</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>i wonder what they will be releasing come next week o_O</p>
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		<title>By: CReed</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/18/seomoz-takes-125-million-series-a/comment-page-1/#comment-1638658</link>
		<dc:creator>CReed</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2007 07:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Congrats to Rand and the team for their continued success.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Congrats to Rand and the team for their continued success.</p>
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		<title>By: Jane</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/18/seomoz-takes-125-million-series-a/comment-page-1/#comment-1634713</link>
		<dc:creator>Jane</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 21:25:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks for the kind words, everyone!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for the kind words, everyone!</p>
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		<title>By: StephenBauer</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/18/seomoz-takes-125-million-series-a/comment-page-1/#comment-1634436</link>
		<dc:creator>StephenBauer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:43:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Congrats Rand!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Congrats Rand!</p>
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		<title>By: Eyal</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/18/seomoz-takes-125-million-series-a/comment-page-1/#comment-1631944</link>
		<dc:creator>Eyal</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:29:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>it&#039;s about time</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>it&#8217;s about time</p>
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		<title>By: scott r</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/18/seomoz-takes-125-million-series-a/comment-page-1/#comment-1631894</link>
		<dc:creator>scott r</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:13:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s an important milestone not only for the &#039;moz but for all of SEO - especially in consideration of reports (e.g. from MarketingSherpa) that marketers&#039; spending has been continuing to increase year-over-year however shifted noticeably in favor of doing SEO in-house more, last year. 

Obviously if true that puts pressure on SEO agencies and/or consultants, such as &#039;moz, myself and many others, to be continually raising the quality-of-service bar. In SEO IMHO, more often than not one gets what one pays for. Moreover, it&#039;s just the tip of the iceberg. SEM as a refined global practice is still in a very young stage. There&#039;s much growth to be had; much exciting work to do, new tool builds and otherwise. 

So here&#039;s to great things coming of it, and hopefully more investment dedicated SEO to come.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s an important milestone not only for the &#8216;moz but for all of SEO &#8211; especially in consideration of reports (e.g. from MarketingSherpa) that marketers&#8217; spending has been continuing to increase year-over-year however shifted noticeably in favor of doing SEO in-house more, last year. </p>
<p>Obviously if true that puts pressure on SEO agencies and/or consultants, such as &#8216;moz, myself and many others, to be continually raising the quality-of-service bar. In SEO IMHO, more often than not one gets what one pays for. Moreover, it&#8217;s just the tip of the iceberg. SEM as a refined global practice is still in a very young stage. There&#8217;s much growth to be had; much exciting work to do, new tool builds and otherwise. </p>
<p>So here&#8217;s to great things coming of it, and hopefully more investment dedicated SEO to come.</p>
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		<title>By: iMarketingGuru (SEO Wiki)</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/18/seomoz-takes-125-million-series-a/comment-page-1/#comment-1631496</link>
		<dc:creator>iMarketingGuru (SEO Wiki)</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I love the content on SEOMoz and i&#039;m surprised they haven&#039;t posted up this success yet on the blog. Great job Rand and the SEOMoz team. I&#039;m sure they&#039;ll put the money to good use in developing new technologies as well as other services for their clients (including all of us search marketing pros) -- Can anyone say Numenta yet? when it comes to technology development??</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I love the content on SEOMoz and i&#8217;m surprised they haven&#8217;t posted up this success yet on the blog. Great job Rand and the SEOMoz team. I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;ll put the money to good use in developing new technologies as well as other services for their clients (including all of us search marketing pros) &#8212; Can anyone say Numenta yet? when it comes to technology development??</p>
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		<title>By: Howard</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/18/seomoz-takes-125-million-series-a/comment-page-1/#comment-1631235</link>
		<dc:creator>Howard</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:20:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>My customers are always looking for the value in the products I provide to them and so we follow a very strict and strong &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITSM&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ITSM&lt;/a&gt; philosophy at my job.  We have to show the value of our programmers and IT professionals to the client as well.  

One way we’ve improved on this is through &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stratavia.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;data center automation&lt;/a&gt;.  With this in place we have been able to do more with the people I have.  They’re constantly working on new software or applications that continue to help &lt;b&gt;improve application availability&lt;/b&gt; as well as upgrade our current generation of services.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My customers are always looking for the value in the products I provide to them and so we follow a very strict and strong <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITSM" rel="nofollow">ITSM</a> philosophy at my job.  We have to show the value of our programmers and IT professionals to the client as well.  </p>
<p>One way we’ve improved on this is through <a href="http://www.stratavia.com" rel="nofollow">data center automation</a>.  With this in place we have been able to do more with the people I have.  They’re constantly working on new software or applications that continue to help <b>improve application availability</b> as well as upgrade our current generation of services.</p>
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		<title>By: Symbian</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/18/seomoz-takes-125-million-series-a/comment-page-1/#comment-1630562</link>
		<dc:creator>Symbian</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:04:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Most of SEOmoz services available for free from other sources like SEOBook and with better quality.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Most of SEOmoz services available for free from other sources like SEOBook and with better quality.</p>
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		<title>By: Monti</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/18/seomoz-takes-125-million-series-a/comment-page-1/#comment-1630070</link>
		<dc:creator>Monti</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 06:41:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I dont know you Rand but congratz! and i wish you all the luck.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I dont know you Rand but congratz! and i wish you all the luck.</p>
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		<title>By: Amit Bhawani</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/18/seomoz-takes-125-million-series-a/comment-page-1/#comment-1630008</link>
		<dc:creator>Amit Bhawani</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 06:08:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Congrats to Rand and the hard working team at Seomoz!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Congrats to Rand and the hard working team at Seomoz!</p>
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		<title>By: john</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/18/seomoz-takes-125-million-series-a/comment-page-1/#comment-1629952</link>
		<dc:creator>john</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 05:47:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I was eager to give my own congratulations to Rand and the really wonderful people at SEOmoz, and was delighted to see how many other people had such warm wishes for them.  Congrats guys...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was eager to give my own congratulations to Rand and the really wonderful people at SEOmoz, and was delighted to see how many other people had such warm wishes for them.  Congrats guys&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: randfish</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/18/seomoz-takes-125-million-series-a/comment-page-1/#comment-1629805</link>
		<dc:creator>randfish</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 04:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks Duncan - totally appreciate the support. Just FYI - the funding is primarily going to drive the premium content product that we launched with this February.

And yes - lots of new tools for webmasters is exactly the plan :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks Duncan &#8211; totally appreciate the support. Just FYI &#8211; the funding is primarily going to drive the premium content product that we launched with this February.</p>
<p>And yes &#8211; lots of new tools for webmasters is exactly the plan <img src='http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Don Wilson</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/18/seomoz-takes-125-million-series-a/comment-page-1/#comment-1629743</link>
		<dc:creator>Don Wilson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 04:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>How would $1.25m not change the culture of their business?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How would $1.25m not change the culture of their business?</p>
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		<title>By: Bryan Starbuck</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/18/seomoz-takes-125-million-series-a/comment-page-1/#comment-1629667</link>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Starbuck</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 03:22:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Congrats Rand!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Congrats Rand!</p>
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		<title>By: Kelli</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/18/seomoz-takes-125-million-series-a/comment-page-1/#comment-1629659</link>
		<dc:creator>Kelli</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 03:12:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I was excited to hear this (I&#039;m a Premium member) and that they have final say in any possible acquisitions which is rare. This is great news from a great company.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was excited to hear this (I&#8217;m a Premium member) and that they have final say in any possible acquisitions which is rare. This is great news from a great company.</p>
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		<title>By: Word Hugger</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/18/seomoz-takes-125-million-series-a/comment-page-1/#comment-1629625</link>
		<dc:creator>Word Hugger</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 02:44:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is good news.  Hopefully with this funding they will have lots of new tools for webmasters!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is good news.  Hopefully with this funding they will have lots of new tools for webmasters!</p>
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		<title>By: ghoti</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/18/seomoz-takes-125-million-series-a/comment-page-1/#comment-1629615</link>
		<dc:creator>ghoti</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 02:37:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s great news for Rand and team.

But this post at TechCrunch is misleading.  As Rand &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.seomoz.org/blog/if-you-were-seomoz-would-you-take-outside-investment&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;explained earlier&lt;/a&gt;, &quot;we&#039;ve gone from being primarily a search marketing consultancy business to one that&#039;s heavily focused on an SEO product - premium content &amp; membership.&quot;.  The $1.25MM investment is to allow them to strengthen the resources in the premium section (and their free stuff, too), not to expand their SEO services.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s great news for Rand and team.</p>
<p>But this post at TechCrunch is misleading.  As Rand <a href="http://www.seomoz.org/blog/if-you-were-seomoz-would-you-take-outside-investment" rel="nofollow">explained earlier</a>, &#8220;we&#8217;ve gone from being primarily a search marketing consultancy business to one that&#8217;s heavily focused on an SEO product &#8211; premium content &amp; membership.&#8221;.  The $1.25MM investment is to allow them to strengthen the resources in the premium section (and their free stuff, too), not to expand their SEO services.</p>
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		<title>By: Daniel Riveong</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/18/seomoz-takes-125-million-series-a/comment-page-1/#comment-1629602</link>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Riveong</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 02:32:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Rand and his fellow Mozzers are some of the nicest people around and some of the best in the search industry. I&#039;ve been fellowing them for years and have had a chance to work with Rand on a SEO project.

I&#039;m still various curious about their plans with the funding and how it will change their service offering. But it shows that SEO has definitely matured into the real deal - no matter what Jason Calacanis says ;)

- Daniel</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rand and his fellow Mozzers are some of the nicest people around and some of the best in the search industry. I&#8217;ve been fellowing them for years and have had a chance to work with Rand on a SEO project.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m still various curious about their plans with the funding and how it will change their service offering. But it shows that SEO has definitely matured into the real deal &#8211; no matter what Jason Calacanis says <img src='http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>- Daniel</p>
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		<title>By: Dave G</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/18/seomoz-takes-125-million-series-a/comment-page-1/#comment-1629549</link>
		<dc:creator>Dave G</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 01:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I am happy to see that someone out there believes seo is still alive and kicking.  I dont totally understand the investment (only because I cannot see an exit), but Im happy to see the importance of seo validated.  Congratulations to seomoz.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am happy to see that someone out there believes seo is still alive and kicking.  I dont totally understand the investment (only because I cannot see an exit), but Im happy to see the importance of seo validated.  Congratulations to seomoz.</p>
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		<title>By: Andy Beal</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/18/seomoz-takes-125-million-series-a/comment-page-1/#comment-1629539</link>
		<dc:creator>Andy Beal</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 01:48:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>They&#039;ve worked hard for this success. I&#039;m confident they&#039;ll put it to good use.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>They&#8217;ve worked hard for this success. I&#8217;m confident they&#8217;ll put it to good use.</p>
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