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Which books should every online marketer read?

This post is one big preparation for another post I’m working on. I want to make a list of all the books we all agree every online marketer should read. So please, let me hear your suggestions!

User stylesheets to show nofollows

Update: now works with links with rel=”external nofollow” etc too! I’ve recently switched back to Safari as my main browser because good ol’Firefox kept crashing on me, and I must say that it’s been a smooth experience so far. Safari is a great browser, of course, and 3.1 is very fast as well. One [...]

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Cool new Rank Checker by SEObook

Aaron just pinged me that he has this great new Rank Checker available on SEOBook. I haven’t tested it yet, but since it’s Aaron’s, it should be good anyway! Check out the video:

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Twittering with Twitterific

Note: if you like this post, read my post on Twitter iPhone apps side by side. I’ve been hooked on Twitter for a while now, (I’m @jdevalk, follow me!) and I use Twitterific mostly when I’m at my Mac. Rae invited me and a couple of other people, through Twitter of course, to do a [...]

PageRank sculpting – Siloing and more

PR sculpting seems to be “all the rage” at the moment. Tracking the conversation back seems to get me to an article by Dan Thies of september 4th last year, pointing back to an interview with Matt on SEOmoz. It’s been a whole load of buzz lately, coming up at SES again a few times [...]

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SES NY 2008

So I’m in the big Apple, my first trip ever to the States, to speak at the Search Engine Strategies 2008 conference here, and it’s a blast so far! I spoke yesterday on the Search Around the World – Europe session, and it was fun, getting a lot of good feedback. Today I walked around [...]

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Replacing plugins with template code: Gravatars

Lately I’ve been trying to reduce the number of plugins I’ve got loading to speed up my WordPress a bit, especially those plugins that do “stuff” in my theme. I’ve been replacing these plugins with template code, and this is the easiest fix I had so far: I replaced a 40k gravatar plugin with one [...]

Co-host at the Shoemoney show

I co-hosted the Shoemoney show on WebmasterRadio with Jeremy Schoemaker yesterday evening, and it was fun! This time, instead of calling in, I Skyped in, and it all worked flawlessly. We spoke to Richard Zwicky of Enquisite, who’s an intelligent guy and a pleasure to talk with, and then rattled on a bit about nothing [...]

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PageRank sculpting: my view

Dave did a good post about nofollow sculpting, and he got a very good quote from Matt Cutts: Nofollowing your internals can affect your ranking in Google, but it’s a 2nd order effect. My analogy is: suppose you’ve got $100. Would you rather work on getting $300, or would you spend your time planning how [...]

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Sociable update

I’ve updated Sociable last night, it now includes a few more social sites, mostly small ones, but also two big Spanish sites: Menéame and BarraPunto, the Spanish version of Digg and SlashDot. The best new addition is terribly simple but fun though, it’s the forward by email button you now see below this post too. [...]