Joost de Valk

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  • September 19th

    Ranking checkers

    The API's of Yahoo! and MSN are disclosing more and more of their secrets to me. I have built ranking checkers for Yahoo, MSN and Google now. The last one doesn't work correctly yet because i can't get the filtering to work. If anyone wants a tutorial for any of those API's, let me know, [...]

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    Posted in: SEO

  • September 17th

    PageRank checker

    I have been enjoying myself in the last few weeks with building SEO tools, based on the different API's for Yahoo, Google, MSN, Technorati and so forth. One of the things coming out of that box is a PageRank checker, it's quite cool, because it can do an image which displays the PR of the [...]

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    Posted in: SEO

  • September 11th

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    New design!

    As you can see, or if you're reading this from a feed, you should see, this site has had a redesign. The new layout has a fully intended web2.0 feel to it, with improved readability as one of the main enhancements.
    I've added some other stuff as well, for instance: the blog now supports gravatars. I've [...]

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    Posted in: Webdesign & development, WordPress

  • September 11th

    Ambatchdotcom SEOcontest

    A friend of mine was talking about this a while back, so i decided to have a look. The Ambatchdotcom SEOcontest, is a contest between SEO's of all kinds, who try to show their skills to other SEO's, and win prizes at the same time, it's quite cool, i might join in next time :)

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    Posted in: SEO

  • September 11th

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    Online Marketing / SEO

    When you're an SEO like I am, you're expected to know the good sites about online marketing and follow them, to be sure your knowledge stays on the right level. Now sometimes you find sites that you find you should have found way before. This one about Internet marketing is a good example, it's a [...]

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    Posted in: SEO

  • August 18th

    Webmaster tools

    Once every so often, you find a new site with some nice website tools and tutorials. If you're doing anything related to the web, you need tools, and you probably need web based ones as well, and this site offers some cool ones.
    A lot of webmasters earn their money using ads, so Google AdSense [...]

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    Posted in: Webdesign & development

  • August 16th

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    Online shopping

    Online shopping sites are coming up more and more, with affiliates like the one before growing rapidly. Whether it's Flowers and Gifts or Credit Cards, there's always money to be made with affiliates :). The cool thing is, these sites actually DO provide some added value, so, well, affiliates work :)

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    Posted in: SEO

  • August 11th

    The strongest online directories

    It's a question coming up every now and then: which directories should i submit my site to? The guys over at Aviva directory have a nice and comprehensive article about the strongest directories. They consider what factors play a part in a directory being a good online directory, and quote good sources like Matt Cutts [...]

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    Posted in: SEO

  • August 9th

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    Apogee Search

    Apogee Search, an Austin, Texas based company, is a nice search engine marketing company, offering search engine optimization and pay per click services. They're a member of SEO Pro's and have a nice clean looking website. They're a trusted partner for some of my friends in the US, and i can recommend them to all [...]

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    Posted in: SEO

  • August 7th

    SEO, Webdesign, e-commerce: you should do it all

    Or none of it... The longer i work in this business, the more i feel you can either do it all, or do nothing at all, because you need to have a pretty good knowledge of say, webdesign, to do SEO, or of SEO to do e-commerce or... etc. etc .etc. Some companies do it [...]

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    Posted in: Webdesign & development

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