It keeps amazing me that I keep seeing people use robots.txt files to prevent sites from being indexed and thus showing up in the search engines. You know why it keeps amazing me? Because robots.txt doesn't actually do the latter, even though it does prevent your site from being indexed.
Let's go through some terms here:
Indexed [...]

We've written about rankings here before, for instance: how to track them with Google Analytics, part I and part II and even why they are worthless (the latter post by Eduard, who has, starting december 1st, joined us at OrangeValley!!), on top of that, I was using this rank tracker all the time!
But today, I [...]

I recently gave a presentation at WordCamp NL, and that presentation was fully recorded, you can view it here:
Hope you enjoy it!

Think Visibility by sk8geek

So I'm starting to wake up from Think Visibility, after flying back yesterday to dive straight into a family party. I can honestly say it was very cool, my presentation went quite well I think, judging by the average of the reactions. Julian's presentation after mine was very interesting as it was [...]

Julian Sambles from the Telegraph is up on stage here talking about Newspaper SEO. I've had a bit of email conversation with Julian before when he wrote an article in the Telegraph about the Queen's new website, and I know that he knows his stuff.
Hearing him talk about how they're optimizing the Telegraph, and how [...]

I've been frustrated for ages with how WordPress deals with user profile fields. There's a "default" set of contact fields, which has always looked random to me: AIM, Yahoo IM and Jabber / Google Talk. A while back I got frustrated enough to have a look at how this is actually dealt with in the [...]

Earlier this year I did a guest post on this site to show you how to track your SEO rankings with Google Analytics. It was quite some news for a lot of people, just take a look at the 300+ comments. And now it's time for the follow-up.
Google's new technology
Since a while Google is testing [...]

In about 2 weeks (on september 12th) I'll be keynoting the ThinkVisibility conference in Leeds, talking about WordPress, blogging, SEO, online marketing and more.
If you're in the area, or even if you're not, ThinkVisibility looks like an awesome conference, with speakers and panelists like Judith Lewis, Patrick Altoft, Chris Garrett, to name but a few [...]

So I'm a big fan of CSS image replacement, for several reasons, most importantly because it allows for a semantically correct page while having some text replaced with images, but also because I love sprites and I love using them well.
I've also always been in favor of the use of CSS Image Replacement for headings, [...]

WordPress, with version 2.3, introduced the concept of Tags. As described by Wikipedia, a tag is "a non-hierarchical keyword or term assigned to a piece of information". This meant WordPress had a hierarchical way of classifying information (categories), and a non hierarchical way of classifying information. As far back as in 2006, people were discussing [...]