January 16th, 2007
No this is not just a question for someone you haven’t seen for a long time. This tutorial tells you how to see what other websites your visitors have visited. This can be especially usefull when you see which competitors websites someone has visited. You can use this information to emphasise on your unique selling points compared to the visited competitors or to find out which competitor names you should use as a searchterm.
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January 4th, 2007
Google Analytics is the best free web analytics software. It has just a few flaws and some of them are easily fixed. In this article I will show you a few tweaks to get better reports from Google Analytics.
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January 2nd, 2007
There is a good development in SEA. Landing page relevance is becoming more and more important for your ads! This means you can save more then half your advertising budget or get double the clicks, just by knowing both SEO and SEA. In this article I will give some information to influence the Quality score in Google.
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Posted in Tutorials, Algorithms, Usability, Search advertising | 3 Comments »
December 29th, 2006
Some years ago search engine optimization was mainly about using the right keyword densities in the text of your website. Nowadays it seems to have lost much of its importance. But isn’t it important anymore? In this article I will give my opinion and maybe we can get a discussion going on what you think.
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December 28th, 2006
A nofollow attribute within the code of your website tells search engines not to follow certain links. This way you indicate that you have links on your website, which you don’t want your website to be associated with. Is this a safe way to have contextual intercourse? In this article I will try to explain the nofollow tag and I will show better condoms for safe linklove.
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December 19th, 2006
In the series: 5 things you didn’t know …. I got tagged by Joost de Valk.
So here are five things:
- You probably don’t know that I’ve been in SEO for ten years now and I used to try everything that was forbidden by search engines and online legislation.
In those days none of the illegal practices could be detected by algorithms and SEO was easy. After my Blackhat days I turned lighter and at the moment I’m white for customers and grey for some other projects.
- I love SEO, but I love marketing even more.
Knowing how to influence people is one of my main interests. I love to see good viral campaigns and how people react to them. I plan to study psychology in the following year, because that’s where it all starts.
- Did you know I have a son named Coen?
Coen is 2,5 years old and the main reason I like to work as little as possible. Every hour I can spend with him and my wife makes me the happiest man alive.
- You probably don’t know about my plans to take over the world either.
I always liked pinky and the brain and got inspired by his megalomanic desires. As long as I can do it in 40 hours a week, I’m going to take over the SEO world.
- I bet you don’t know I’m having troubles finding SEO people that haven’t already been tagged.
I will update this post as I find more tagable SEO’s, but now there’s only one.
So here’s my tag to the next people in line:
- Mathieu Burgerhout
He’s kinda my protege and I hope he gets to be an even better SEO than me.
- Saku
By day an accountant, by night an SEO superhero.
- Ulco Wierenga
Dutch SEO blogger. Click on the link to see how crazy Dutch looks to you.
- Robert Cabri
A programmer that does a lot of SEO work.
- SEO-expert.nlA Dutch seo with too much banners on his website.
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November 28th, 2006
Search engines try to program all spam detection methods into their algorithm (spam: as in very unrelevant results), but there are many exceptions where they use people to verify if a website is really breaking the rules of the webmaster guidelines (Google quality guidelines).
When does a search engine use manual spam detection?
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November 24th, 2006
There are several forums with a password protected area that only allow searchbots to enter it without logging in. If you want to place a comment or do something else on such a forum you can have the searchbot do it for you.
How can you get Googlebot to hack for you?
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November 10th, 2006
There are several software packages that help you find link posibilities and request the links. I only use link building software to administrate everything my linkbuilding team does. Link building software is useful when you do a lot of manual link requests. Here’s how we use it.
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November 4th, 2006
Cloaking is showing search engines other content then human visitors. To use cloaking effectively you need to detect whether your visitor is a searchbot.
In this post I will try to explain…
the process of implementing a cloaking script.
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