How does a person become successful in the world of SEO? I wish I could tell you all the secrets but if I knew them, I would be sitting on a beach in Tahiti, sipping mai tais, instead of writing this post. About a year ago I ran across a video of Richard St. John giving a quick 3 minute presentation at TED about the 8 secrets of success and started to wonder if those same 8 secrets where true within the SEO industry…

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I was recently inspired by a post by MikeTek, Examining the Top 150 In-Linked Posts at SEOmoz.  While the information was very informative, it was taken from a limited sample of the over 3,800 post on SEOmoz…

Recently while I was reading a post on SEOmoz, I started to think about the SEOmoz users and the whole points system.  I read one of Lindsay’s Twitter posts saying that the MozPoint distribution system on SEOmoz is a case study in itself.  I thought it might be a cool thing for all the users and SEOmoz staff to look at.

I created a crawler/scraper that went through the rankings and collected all the necessary information I needed to get some statistics…