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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.

Canonical URL links

Feb 12, 2009 Joost de Valk 319 comments

Matt Cutts has just announced a new tag at SMX West Google, Yahoo and Microsoft have just announced a new tag, which we can use to tell the search engines which URL it should have for the current page. This is probably best explained with an example, so here goes.
Suppose you have read my Twitter [...]

Tags: Drupal, Google, Magento Extension, WordPress Plugins
Categories: SEO, WordPress

New SEO reports for Google Analytics

Feb 05, 2009 Reinout Wolfert 53 comments

In this article I’ll use the SEO filter, made by Andé Scholten, to make some new interesting SEO reports in Google Analytics. I realized that the data, provided by the filter, had given me some new opportunities. It wasn’t possible in Google Analytics to get good SEO related reports. The reports I did get were [...]

Tags: Google Analytics
Categories: Analytics, SEO

SEMMY Finalist!

Jan 28, 2009 Joost de Valk 9 comments

I told you I'd been nominated for a SEMMY a while back, well, I've made it to the finals in the Blogs & Blogging category with my WordPress SEO article! I'm very honored!
So you can help me now: please go vote here, I'll be very grateful!

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Categories: SEO

WordPress SEO Video

Jan 27, 2009 Joost de Valk 146 comments

I spoke at A4UExpo London last year and will be speaking at the upcoming A4UExpo Amsterdam. One of the sessions I had in the last A4UExpo was the session on WordPress SEO & Optimisation strategies. That entire session was taped, and the A4UExpo guys have been kind enough to allow me to embed it here [...]

Tags: A4UExpo, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes
Categories: SEO, WordPress

Nominated for a SEMMY (or two)!

Jan 20, 2009 Joost de Valk 9 comments

It's always great when people recognize the value of the content you work hard to produce. Whether that is by email, donation or otherwise. To be nominated for a SEMMY is more than great though, it's insanely cool!
From their about page: "The SEMMYS are an annual awards event honoring the great content produced across the [...]

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Categories: SEO

Track SEO rankings with Google Analytics

Jan 05, 2009 André Scholten 302 comments

Some months ago I created a Google Analytics filter that enables you to track your Google rankings. I blogged about it on my own Dutch analytics blog and saw there was more interest in it then usual. Joost walked by and offered me to do a guest post on this subject. So here he goes:
Track [...]

Tags: Google Analytics, Rankings
Categories: Analytics, SEO

2009 will rock!

Jan 02, 2009 Joost de Valk 25 comments

First of all, thank you all for being a reader of this blog for the past year, and I wish you all the best for 2009!
While last year was in many ways a very successful year, this year promises to be even better. While I've got a few ideas of my own for new years [...]

Tags: Blogging
Categories: SEO, WordPress

Disabling SearchWiki

Nov 23, 2008 Joost de Valk 7 comments

Google introduced Search Wiki, and opted me in without a method of disabling it. Thanks a lot Google. Not.
So I started searching for a way to disable. First I found this post , via Saad Kamal, on Google Operating System, but that didn't work to well for me. This greasemonkey based solution is a [...]

Tags: SEO tools
Categories: SEO

A4UExpo was great, yet again.

Oct 16, 2008 Joost de Valk 20 comments

Matthew and his team at Existem have done it again. If people ask me, anywhere in the coming 12 months, which show they should attend on online marketing, I can only say one thing: A4UExpo. They're really giving all the other search and online marketing shows a run for their money.

The last few days have [...]

Tags: A4UExpo, Affiliate, Conferences
Categories: Online Marketing, SEO

SlideShare should get it's SEO fixed

Oct 14, 2008 Joost de Valk 14 comments

While I'm uploading my presentation of my WordPress session to SlideShare, I was looking for an upload client as my HTTP connection was bound to die. I searched for [slideshare upload] and found this result:

PHP Session ID's in your URL? A presentation as the best result on your site for that term? Come on SlideShare, [...]

Tags: A4UExpo, Conferences
Categories: SEO
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