Win a ticket for SES Hamburg!

So SES Hamburg is close, very close, and if you haven’t bought a ticket yet, you can win one here! There are three reasons, according to Matt McGowan, to come to SES: Constructive feedback on how to improve your website’s visibility in the Search Engines – more relevant traffic, more sales Immediate feedback on how…

SEO Link Analysis 1.0.3!

I’ve been receiving “complaints” from quite a few people the last few weeks that my SEO Link Analysis plugin for Firefox stopped working on Yahoo! Site Explorer. It took some time, (actually it took 20 minutes, but it took some time to find that time) but I’ve fixed it now, so go download the new…

Interview with Kevin Ryan of SES

For a new series we’ve started on DutchCowboys I recently interviewed Kevin Ryan. We covered some interesting topics, like the difference between the European market and the American market, the influence of the Chinese market and loads more! I’m really looking forward to seeing Kevin and Matt on SES Hamburg in a couple of weeks!…

PageRank Sculpting with nofollow, the final words

Matt just did a huge post with updates to Google’s SEO documentation, and mentioned a new page about nofollow. This page features one block of content that is the final word on whether using nofollow for PageRank sculpting is “allowed” or not: Crawl prioritization: Search engine robots can’t sign in or register as a member…

Nice noframes spam…

I told the people who attended my session at SES New York a while back that spam in the Netherlands was just as abundant as everywhere, just more stupid… Well this is a nice example of such ridiculous noframes spam, which ranks them #1 for some pretty competitive keywords, check out how their google cache…

So Matt, how would you classify these stories?

Quote:: “There’s not much more deceptive or misleading than a fake story without any disclosure that the story is hoax.” Ok Matt, please tell me, how would you make a top 10 for these keywords: crucifixion assumption of mary papal infallibility You know Matt, that I am with you on quite a lot of spam…

Strike Point Co-Host

I co-hosted Strike Point with Mikkel yesterday, here’s a link to the show: Was Yahoo Immature in Microsoft Takeover Bid. We discussed the Yahoo! / MicroSoft stuff of course, IndexTools and sitelinks. I think it was a pretty good show, so go get it!

Traffic estimation with Google’s traffic estimator

I was reading Aaron’s excellent post on the value of a #1 ranking in Google, and decided to do a quick check on one of my most important keywords in the Google traffic estimator, vs. Google Analytics, and I was once again astonished by how incredibly bad the estimator data is when noone is bidding…