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…
Why PageRank says nothing about rankings
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?
Wikipedia and Link-Spam: the story continues
As I told you before, some people on the WikiProject Spam page were talking about ways of sharing the links they remove with search engines, and especially Google. This dicussion has been going on, and now Jimbo Wales, founder of Wikipedia, commented on it.
The risks of link-spamming Wikipedia
Whether you think it’s spamming or not, adding your own site to Wikipedia is considered spamming. I found out “the hard way” in a discussion I was having with Wikipedia editors on their WikiProject Spam page, regarding my previous post. Up till now, the only risk of placing your link in Wikipedia yourself, was that…
Developing link-bait 2: using Wikipedia
My previous post about developing link-bait told you about what to do with those beautiful pieces of content you have in your site which really deserve their own domain. It discussed how to get them started up by getting them Dugg, and how to make sure people would deeplink as well as link to your…
The Sandbox, or is it the Trustbox
GrayWolf writes about The Sandbox not being the Trustbox, and the point he makes is the following: you’re not trying to get out out of the Sandbox, you’re trying to get into the Trustbox.
Small new project: SEO Heroes RSS
I’ve started a small new project, a page with RSS feeds of major SEO’s, on one of the domains I had lying around, SEO Heroes.com… The layout is heavily based on another RSS aggregator site, as you might have noticed. If people like this idea, I might do some funny stuff with it.
Digg abuse
While I talked to you guys about how I made a site rank for some top keywords fast using Digg and some quality link-bait, I do not think that spamming is the answer. My colleague Roy Huiskes talked about some Digg abuse on his blog, and why this wouldn’t work. He quotes an article on…
W3C paid links no longer indexed
The W3C supporters program had been (ab-)used for a while now by, amongst others, SEO companies. They paid $1,000 to the W3C, and got a link on the supporters page in return, a PageRank 9 page. This way they increased their PageRank. Look among the links on that page, and spot the pages with “SEO”…
Which links hurt and which don’t?
Links are very important for your site, even when you’re not looking at a site like an SEO would. One of the hot topics among SEO’s is whether links can hurt you as well. I’ve collected some recent threads at forums and some answers from the guys who are “in the know”, like Adam Lasnik…
