Update to PageRank checking script

The latest PageRank update from Google has not moved over to all datacenters, as Matt Cutts has said, this is because some datacenters still use old data. So i had to fix my PageRank checker and my Domain Info script, i’ve now given these scripts another set of datacenters to check for PageRank, a set…

PageRank update!

Some datacenters are showing new PR values for my sites, so an update is working. I have to say: it’s turning out quite nice. CSS3.info get’s a PR5, it’s preview subpages are even PR6. My homepage finally get’s what it deserves and goes to PR6, coming from a mere PR2… BTW, the page i use…

Developing link-bait: an example

One of the hardest things to do in SEO these days, is getting the links you want, at the price you want: for free. Most of those directory links you can get for free won’t help you a lot, since what you want is links from trusted websites, with approximately the same topic as your…

That’s some smart link building

Jim Westergren, the man behind SEO Fusion and some great articles about link building, has launched a new service: Smart Link Building. What he does is the following: you give him a site that you want links for and a list of keywords. Then he writes 20 mini-articles, with 10 links in each article, and…

Getting Google’s last visit date from the Google API

When Vanessa Fox over at the Webmaster Central Blog said they would update the “retrieved on” date even when a page hadn’t changed, it suddenly became very cool info. This means you can see when a URL was last spidered, even if you don’t have a Sitemaps account for the domain. This triggered me to…

Ranking checkers

The API’s of Yahoo! and MSN are disclosing more and more of their secrets to me. I have built ranking checkers for Yahoo, MSN and Google now. The last one doesn’t work correctly yet because i can’t get the filtering to work. If anyone wants a tutorial for any of those API’s, let me know,…

PageRank checker

I have been enjoying myself in the last few weeks with building SEO tools, based on the different API’s for Yahoo, Google, MSN, Technorati and so forth. One of the things coming out of that box is a PageRank checker, it’s quite cool, because it can do an image which displays the PR of the…

Ambatchdotcom SEOcontest

A friend of mine was talking about this a while back, so i decided to have a look. The Ambatchdotcom SEOcontest, is a contest between SEO’s of all kinds, who try to show their skills to other SEO’s, and win prizes at the same time, it’s quite cool, i might join in next time :)

Online Marketing / SEO

When you’re an SEO like I am, you’re expected to know the good sites about online marketing and follow them, to be sure your knowledge stays on the right level. Now sometimes you find sites that you find you should have found way before. This one about Internet marketing is a good example, it’s a…

Online shopping

Online shopping sites are coming up more and more, with affiliates like the one before growing rapidly. Whether it’s Flowers and Gifts or Credit Cards, there’s always money to be made with affiliates :). The cool thing is, these sites actually DO provide some added value, so, well, affiliates work :)