Rand Fishkin from SEOMOZ announced earlier today that his company took on $1.25 million in outside venture capital from Ignition Partners and Curious Office.

In Rand’s words, “The decision was made based on the fact that we want to do more - and grow faster. The premium content stuff isn’t just fun and interesting, it’s something we love - something we’re passionate about - something we think can make the web a better place by making search marketers smarter - better, stronger, faster. We literally have a hundred different ideas for tools, search analytics, tracking, guides, resources and more and we’re in a position to recruit help from the best and brightest the industry has to offer… but, we can’t do it alone.

Let me make this totally clear - this money is going to change SEOmoz - it’s going to change the quality of the services we provide, it’s going to change the quality of the people we can attract, it’s going to change our ability to market ourselves on a bigger stage, but (big, big but), it’s not going to change our culture or our style or our approach to doing what we love to do - search marketing.”

Congratulations to Rand and his team at SEOMOZ!

These guys are a very impressive group of business professionals - I expect to hear some other big announcements moving forward.

Pepperjam is a proud member of SEOMOZ’s Premium Content - we highly recommend the service.

If you want to learn more about joining SEOMOZ visit HERE.

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