Joost de Valk

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  • October 11th

    20

    The risks of link-spamming Wikipedia

    Whether you think it's spamming or not, adding your own site to Wikipedia is considered spamming. I found out "the hard way" in a discussion I was having with Wikipedia editors on their WikiProject Spam page, regarding my previous post. Up till now, the only risk of placing your link in Wikipedia yourself, was that [...]

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    Posted in: SEO

  • October 8th

    1

    Developing link-bait 2: using Wikipedia

    My previous post about developing link-bait told you about what to do with those beautiful pieces of content you have in your site which really deserve their own domain. It discussed how to get them started up by getting them Dugg, and how to make sure people would deeplink as well as link to your [...]

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    Posted in: SEO

  • October 7th

    The Sandbox, or is it the Trustbox

    GrayWolf writes about The Sandbox not being the Trustbox, and the point he makes is the following: you're not trying to get out out of the Sandbox, you're trying to get into the Trustbox.
    This makes a lot more sense. Recently the tattoo blog of my colleague Roy suddenly got a whole lot more visitors [...]

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    Posted in: SEO

  • October 6th

    3

    Small new project: SEO Heroes RSS

    I've started a small new project, a page with RSS feeds of major SEO's, on one of the domains I had lying around, SEO Heroes.com... The layout is heavily based on another RSS aggregator site, as you might have noticed. If people like this idea, I might do some funny stuff with it.

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    Posted in: SEO

  • October 5th

    26

    Free competitor statistics!

    Sometimes, while going through results for certain keywords, you will find that some of your competitors use free statistics programs. In a lot of cases, you can access those statistics, which usually contain very valuable data like keywords and referrers. Sometimes people will hide the usually obliged buttons for these scripts, but you can find [...]

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    Posted in: Analytics

  • October 4th

    2

    Have a Mint Greasemonkey script

    This script has been replaced by a new version, which now has it's own page. 
    I recently (as in, yesterday) bought a Mint license for this site, and am now very enthusiastic about it. Now i've always been using Google Analytics, and since i'm very interested to know what kind of stats package other people use, [...]

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    Posted in: Analytics

  • October 3rd

    Digg abuse

    While I talked to you guys about how I made a site rank for some top keywords fast using Digg and some quality link-bait, I do not think that spamming is the answer. My colleague Roy Huiskes talked about some Digg abuse on his blog, and why this wouldn't work. He quotes an article on [...]

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    Posted in: SEO

  • October 3rd

    1

    Changing your permalink structure

    I recently changed the permalink structure of this Wordpress blog, going from /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/ (Wordpress default i think) to the much more elegant and simple /%postname%/. This is very cool ofcourse, both because it's simpler and SEO wise, but on an existing blog, this leaves you with lots of links that point to the wrong URL. [...]

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    Posted in: WordPress

  • October 2nd

    W3C paid links no longer indexed

    The W3C supporters program had been (ab-)used for a while now by, amongst others, SEO companies. They paid $1,000 to the W3C, and got a link on the supporters page in return, a PageRank 9 page. This way they increased their PageRank. Look among the links on that page, and spot the pages with "SEO" [...]

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    Posted in: SEO

  • October 2nd

    2

    Which links hurt and which don't?

    Links are very important for your site, even when you're not looking at a site like an SEO would. One of the hot topics among SEO's is whether links can hurt you as well. I've collected some recent threads at forums and some answers from the guys who are "in the know", like Adam Lasnik [...]

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    Posted in: SEO

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