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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, linkbuilding and linkbaiting. 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.

What I’ve learned in the SEM scholarship contest

Dec 15, 2006 Joost de Valk 3 comments

Man I was cocky when I entered the scholarship contest. I though I’d beat everybody easily. The amounts of traffic that other articles were getting weren’t very impressive, I thought, and I was sure to be able to get much more traffic. After all, I knew from experience what a few blog posts and news [...]

Tags: SEM, Social Media
Categories: SEO

Technorati Greasemonkey script

Dec 04, 2006 Joost de Valk 6 comments

Want to see the Technorati rank and the number of inbound links for a page? I wrote a Greasemonkey script that shows you just that, it does that by opening the search page for the current URL on Technorati and finding those values on it.

Tags: SEO tools
Categories: SEO

Helping DaveN and Matt Cutts test MSN

Nov 24, 2006 Joost de Valk 3 comments

By simply linking to Matt Cutt’s .co.uk domain. For more details, check DaveN’s post.

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Categories: SEO

Spammers using social media

Nov 22, 2006 Joost de Valk Comments Off

Spammers don’t just linkspam Wikipedia, they use various methods to gather the links they need to get their sites on top of the organic search results. One of the new methods in the last months has been spamming the social bookmarking networks like Digg and del.icio.us.

Tags: Social Media
Categories: SEO

Wikipedia Link Nazi’s

Nov 17, 2006 Joost de Valk 11 comments

Jaimie of SEO Egghead has a wonderful post on Wikipedia editor being link nazi’s, with a wonderful picture to illustrate just what he means with the term “nazi” as well. His experiences with the editorial team of Wikipedia: he wrote the article on link-bait and quoted Rand Fishkin, Matt Cutts, Aaron Wall, and linked to [...]

Tags: Link Building
Categories: SEO

Marketing-Pilgrim SEO Contest

Oct 30, 2006 Joost de Valk 4 comments

Boys and Girls, please help me out by reading this article, and giving me your comments on it :)

Tags: Online Marketing
Categories: SEO

Why you should check Google suggest

Oct 26, 2006 Joost de Valk 2 comments

In the new Firefox 2, Google suggest is incorporated into the search block in the top right of your browser. This new box CAN have quite an important effect on the way you should optimize your site. I’ll show you why with an example.

Tags: Google
Categories: SEO

Launching a new blog? Get it right in one turn

Oct 24, 2006 Joost de Valk 3 comments

My friends over at Aviva Directory have written another excellent piece of content: a list of 21 tips to launch your blog. Now I’m not saying I’m doing it all right, but I should be, and so should you. The list they made consists of 6 parts: The First Impression RSS & Subscriptions Social Bookmarking [...]

Tags: Blogging
Categories: SEO

‘Show me the money!’

Oct 18, 2006 Joost de Valk 4 comments

“Show me the money!�, that’s what a client said to me the other day. If I could make a good business case for the changes I proposed to his website, he would find the money, never mind what the investment had to be. How often I’ve wished we had more clients like him, I guess [...]

Tags: Online Marketing
Categories: SEO

Why PageRank says nothing about rankings

Oct 16, 2006 Joost de Valk 15 comments

Sometimes you’ll get clients who say “my PageRank is x, yet I don’t get any visitors from Google�. Understandable, I think. If you were graded 6 out of 10, by the biggest search engine out there, it’s only fair to expect some traffic, or isn’t it?

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