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Hi Tim,

Unfortunately, there is no word. I was told maybe this week. Right now, it's not a matter of the videos, it's a matter of making sure that all you attendees get your free ones and that people can buy them if they weren't at MozCon. Our team says they're still testing this as they were running into bugs. I'd hate to release them, and then you not get them because of a weird bug. Sorry for the continued delay.

Unfortunately, I still don't have a date. To be transparent, most of our resources right now are focused on getting people into Moz Analytics, so we're a bit resourced-strained for getting this up. We've hoping soon, but that's really all I can tell you.

Though I can assure you that our speakers give really solid information and not fly-by-the-night techniques, so even if MozCon was a few months ago, the information isn't outdated.

Unfortunately, we currently don't have a release date. They are in the works. Sorry for the wait.

Hi!

My first comment on our rebrand on social from SEOmoz to Moz is to be prepared. We knew about a year before this was happening, which gave us a lot of time to make connections and make sure we had the proper assets for the switch.

Facebook: They do have a place where you can file to switch your account name if you have over 200 likes. At the time, we had an ad accounts manager, so we reached out to them that way about our rebrand. They had to do everything on their backend for us. We gave them the instructions and the time we wanted it switched and magic. Then we, of course, had to update our information and pretty graphics.

Twitter: We secured the @Moz Twitter handle probably a year or more before we actually transitioned to it. We did let Twitter know we were doing this -- only in that it might've been risk if someone was 2 seconds faster to the draw than me and we have a verified account, which the continuation of that helped secure our branding and build a trust. To keep all our followers and such, we just changed the @Moz to something different temporarily, changed @SEOmoz to @Moz, and then the original @Moz to @SEOmoz. We wanted to keep the old @SEOmoz one for branding, to keep it out of squatters' hands, and because people still tweet at us via it. The only thing Twitter really helped us about with was the re-verification once we were @Moz.

LinkedIn Groups: Simple rename in their interface.

LinkedIn Company Page: You cannot change a company page name, and our efforts to reach out to someone from LinkedIn were not fruitful. We had to start an entire new page, which meant that we lost any of the followers there that we had before. Note: If your brand is 3 characters or less, you may have trouble when you get all your employees to change their employer on their personal profiles as it won't populate in the drop-down. After a few weeks and lots of Mozzer support tickets, they came up with a solution for us.

Pinterest: You can change the name in their interface.

YouTube: We actually already had our post-rebrand name over there. You can change it, but currently, YouTube has issues if you try also to reclaim your old brand.

In the end, we only really lost followers in LinkedIn as we were able to easily rename everything else instead of create a new account there. And Ruth, our SEO, rocked the proper 301s on our site so all our old links were pointing to the proper places. And our web team changed all our social buttons to the new URLs and names.

Hope this helps you on your rebrand!

Just Discovered was created as a tool in response to the many folks asked "Why aren't my back links showing up in OSE?" when they either finding them in other places or building them and not seeing the link in our index.

Just Discovered indexs links that are tweeted as it crawls Twitter in search of links. It doesn't really matter how many times a link is tweeted, as long as that tweet is public and it happens once, Just Discovered should find it. More about Just Discovered.

I definitely agree with the others that Google's going to hit them with a spam algo issue. They are getting smarter about connected sites even if they aren't on the same domain.

That said, you can report people for spam to Tumblr. I'd say use it wisely. In experience, Tumblr support's been pretty quick to help out.

Though it maybe time for your company to jump aboard Tumblr. But do it the correct manner.

Okay, going to dig in more for your main question...

But to address Just Discovered links. It collects tweeted links, and I'm going to say that Tumblr may have a higher precent of links tweeted than other places. We do have some spam filtering (as so much of the net's spam & crawling takes time/monies), but I can't help but wonder if Tumblr may get passed them a bit more than other sites.

Yeah, unfortunately, the decision was made -- as part of the hype -- not to mix the message to say that PRO users didn't need to sign up for the waiting list.

Oh, we definitely want to know! You're not spamming in any manner.

To answer your questions:

Yes, we are rolling PRO users into the beta slowly. We expect all PROs to have access to Moz Analytics by the second week in September at the latest. You'll be able to toggle between PRO and Moz Analytics as you get used to it. (One feature we haven't finished porting is custom reports, and you'll definitely be able to still access PRO to grab those.) When you have access, you'll get an email inviting you to try it, and when you log-in into our site to use the tools, there will be an in-app message also telling you that you have access. So it will be very apparent if you have access.

Yes, the Search section mostly has features that are the same as the current PRO application. The new features include more traffic data, an entire brand and mentions section (a lot based on Fresh Web Explorer data, but in more regular way), some retuning of the social tools, a much better UX/UI experience, more integration with Help documentation if you get stuck, and a main dashboard that provides a "health" type overview that we hope you can show off to clients/boss/etc who don't say care about granular inbound marketing work.

Make sure you're letting us know about any bugs with that feedback tab.

The MozCon videos will be up in 1-2 months as we're processing the videos and making the site ready for them. All MozCon attendees will get an email about their access and will have automatic access since they were included in the price of a MozCon ticket. We'll definitely send out other emails and make a blog post announcing them, so folks who are buying them won't miss them.

Don't forget to join our Facebook group for MozCon!

Have no fear, MozCon will be recorded, and videos will be available in the coming months after MozCon.

Hi Doug,

Can't wait to see you at MozCon! It's going to be awesome!

Definitely check out the #MozCon hashtag on Twitter.

We don't have a code for SMX East, and I'm not sure that we had one last year. As Matt pointed out below, our codes are always on our perks page.

That said, if you're interested in coming to MozCon, July 8th-10th, you can use the code SMXMOZ to get $100 off.

Best of luck!

Oh, I should add that they requested quite a bit of information about our rebranding. We ended up sending them: our new URL and it's whois, our trademark number on our new name, an internal slide deck about the rebranding, and a pretty long statement about what we were doing. We're pretty lucky here at Moz that our name change wasn't a huge state secret, but we were pretty surprised about how much documentation they wanted.

Hi Eric,

We definitely worked directly with Facebook to do these changes. They flipped both the name change and the vanity URL change on their end and did the 301 redirect from our old page.

If you go into your "admin" section on your FB page and into the "basic information" by the "name" field, you'll see a link to "request change."

Facebook's pretty invested in getting businesses on there, so they seemed to be very responsive about this.

Hope that helps!

So I'm completely bias as I'm a Mozzer and one of the Mozzers who runs MozCon.

With that said, MozCon is definitely my favorite conference. Last year was both the first year I helped run MozCon and the first year I attended it. I knew all the pieces, and I was blown away by the caliber of the content and the speakers. The topic runs a little intermediate advanced, especially if the topic is primarily SEO-focused, and the speakers themselves are incredibly smart and true experts in their topics. Most conferences to me are really hit or miss, but MozCon was one where I felt that I learned at every session. (I've been in the industry for 6 years.) The single session, one room format with keynote-style talks really suites my learning style and my need for community (live-tweeter right here). (And Seattle is awesome!!)

My second favorite one is SearchFest PDX. Their speaker quality is superb. Though you have to pick between sessions. I found the community pretty great here too. And the year I went, it was right by the food trucks which I can't stay away from in PDX. I felt the sessions were really tailored by topic so you could chose to go on the track you knew and learn something or skip around to learn something new.

If you want to talk to Matt Cutts or get all fannish around him, SMX is the conference to go to. As except for the "celebs" of search or a specific keynote, it's panels, speakers get less time to talk, which I go back and forth how much I like that. I find panels, due to the sheer numbers of speakers a conference organizer must find to talk on a similar topic, can sometimes be a large hit or miss between speakers. And they can also crash quickly if the moderators aren't on top of it.

SES has been a bit more a beginner's conference in my mind. I've found a lot more SMB and SEOs starting their careers going to these than other conferences. It's all panels with a few exceptions like SMX. Both SES and SMX accept pitches, and sometimes, you can get some rougher talks due to beginning speakers. (We ALL have to start somewhere!)

I haven't been to PubCon or any of Distilled's conferences (SearchLove, LinkLove), though I've heard PubCon to be more like an SMX and SearchLove to be closer to MozCon in styles.

Anyway, hope you found that useful. Feel free to ask about specifics you're considering, and really, I can answer about anything about MozCon.