I recently changed the permalink structure of this WordPress blog, going from /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/ (WordPress default i think) to the much more elegant and simple /%postname%/. This is very cool ofcourse, both because it’s simpler and SEO wise, but on an existing blog, this leaves you with lots of links that point to the wrong URL.…
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”…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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