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SEO, the acronym for Search Engine Optimization, is my job and my hobby. I write a LOT about SEO, mainly talking about WordPress SEO, link building and on-site SEO. SEO is a rapidly growing business on the internet, which shows by the amount of people writing about it. My SEO posts here will mostly be technical in nature, and talk about optimizing specific platforms like WordPress and Magento.

WordPress version detection

Sometimes you’re browsing around and wondering whether a blog is a WordPress or not (at least I am)… So I created a small script that detects that, and show the version of the WordPress as well. A useful tool for all you blackhats out there too perhaps? Go grab the Show WordPress version Greasemonkey script! [...]

Perfectly coded AJAX with fallbacks, and still no Google love?

You’ve probably seen it too… Great looking websites coded with all sorts of fancy AJAX functions, and it’s done absolutely right. If you disable javascript, all the links that were first used to show content or do an action on the current page, now take you to a new page on which the content you’re [...]

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Why you should not use XML Sitemaps

First of all: I do want you to use Google Webmaster Tools. It’s an incredible useful toolbox, so please, please use it. If you’re not using it at the moment, check out my post on how to use Google Webmaster Tools. I do think though, that XML Sitemaps (whether it be Google sitemaps or otherwise),  [...]

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Help me create a list of online RSS readers

For a Google Analytics WordPress plugin I’m working on, I need a list of all the online RSS readers out there… I know Google Reader and Bloglines, but I was hoping someone could help me with a “complete” list?

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Searching with Google: country based results made easy

Dave Davis dropped me a line to tell about the Google Global Firefox extension they have just released, which allows you to search Google with geo targetting for different countries without having to edit the URL by hand. It’s quite useful, I dare say, so check it out!

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Linklove monday

Listening to Webmasterradio’s Strike Point, the linklove section came by and of course everyone should participate, so here’s a link to some great free clipart!

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Readable nofollows

I noticed that on Dave’s great new layout, his nofollow comment links where unreadable… This was caused by my greasemonkey script setting a pink background but not changing the text color and so forth. I’ve now changed it to do that, so I can read the name’s in the comments. So if you’re using this [...]

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Google Search URL parameters cheat sheet

I’ve been playing around with the URL parameters Google has to offer a lot lately, mostly after the de-personalized search stuff. I’ve now built a list of these parameters and created a PDF cheat sheet file with all of them in there. Included in this PDF are links to the documentation for the values some [...]

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Blogspam works, but only in large quantities

Dave Davies did some research on whether nofollow links still pass some linkjuice, and as it turns out (which we knew of course) it does, a bit… So, for your blogspam to be useful, you have to do it in very very large quantities :)

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What’s more frustrating than having a link from dev.live.com?

My domain-info script has a link from the dev.live.com mashups list, which of course is nice, I mean: who doesn’t want a link from a live.com subdomain? But then I checked the dev.live.com robots.txt file… Now that sucks :) I wonder why they blocked it… I’ve sent in that question through the feedback form, you’d [...]

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