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.
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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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October 14th, 2006
Hacking stuff for SEO purposes can be fun and easy, but it’s something I’m against! Nevertheless I’m going to give an example of blog hackability. You should use this information to protect yourself, but you can use it for other purposes.
How to hack your comment into Wordpress
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October 13th, 2006
There are many good and bad ways to use cloaking. Google says there are ways where they approve on its use and they even say a good way to identify the Googlebot is by doing an IP lookup and checking if it is in the googlebot.com domain.
When should you cloak?
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October 5th, 2006
In this how-to series of posts I will try to explain the best way to obtaining a bunch of linklove by buying an existing domain name. You need to be aware of all the things search engines are able to detect, but the only hard part is getting a good domain at a reasonable price.
What is the optimum way to use your newly acquired domain?
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September 30th, 2006
In this how-to series of posts I will try to explain the best way to obtaining a bunch of linklove by buying an existing domain name. You need to be aware of all the things search engines are able to detect, but the only hard part is getting a good domain at a reasonable price.
How do you find and buy the right domain?
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September 29th, 2006
In this how-to series of posts I will try to explain the best way to obtaining a bunch of linklove by buying an existing domain name. You need to be aware of all the things search engines are able to detect, but the only hard part is getting a good domain at a reasonable price.
What makes a good SEO domain?
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