Google Filters: Exact Match Anchor Text Links Are the New Meta Keywords
It’s always fascinating to see how Google treats SEO techniques that have gone main stream. Basically Google often uses filters on them. Of course many people out there abuse SEO techniques once they know they work. So called anchor text…
Software for SEO: Tools, Why & How to Track Rankings in a Personalized Search World
Actual rankings in Google Webmaster Tools. Here the query seo blog and the number of impressions for my blog. When it comes to software for SEO many people in the SEO industry cry foul. Others try to sell you software…
DIYSEO Interview with Patrick Gavin
This week SEO industry veterans Patrick Gavin, most known for launching Text Link Ads a few years ago, and Andy Hagans have launched a new major project. It’s called DIYSEO and is a new kind of SEO software or actually…
Image SEO for Photographers and Other Visual Artists
Photographing the Photographer by Naixn. Photographers and other visual artists have a magnificent tool to show off their work these days, the Internet. Everybody loves great photos and artworks so they spread basically by themselves. Still there is a big…
SEO Test: Default Personalized Search is a Myth – It Doesn’t Work
During the recent three weeks I have performed a very simple SEO test to determine the influence of the newly introduced personalized search feature by Google. This one allegedly works with cookies only and it personalizes your search results by…
hkcMjRm: How to Use Google as URL Shortener
Google short URL: hkcMjRm. Update December, 15th 2009: Try it with http://l.gog.is/hkcMjRm. Moreover Google has launched it’s own official Google URL shortener yesterday: goo.gl Thanks Brandon Diaz for the heads up in the comments. Sadly goo.gl is only available to…
10 New Google Personal Search Blogging, Social Media & SEO Tactics
Image: Trust by notsogoodphotography The new by default personalized search by Google is a big paradigm shift in SEO. Yesterday I wrote about the changes personal search will bring for blogging, social media, SEO etc. I prefer to call it…
12 Effects Google Personal Search Will Have on SEO, Blogging, Social Media and the Web as Whole
Image: Personal Preference by Kevin Dooley. Google gets personal: Now everybody will get personalized search results based on their search habits in the past unless they opt out in a tedious process. So most people won’t opt out or even…
Google Indexes Twitter Links
How to get Indexed by Google in 2009? Just use Twitter. This is no joke. I ran a test on Twitter to find out whether Google indexes Twitter links and surprise, surprise it does. Of course Google can’t ignore Twitter,…
Authority and Trustrank
Yesterday I discovered the original Trustrank paper from 2004. Trustrank is a term coined by some Yahoo engineers to describe a new algorithm to determine relevant search results. The new thing about Trustrank is that it does not solely count…
The 7 Most Pressing Reasons to Control Google & Search not SEO
Google? “City gate, Dali” is a Creative Commons licensed image by Alexandra Moss A recent anonymous posting on Techcrunch proposes the regulation of Search Engine Marketing and SEO. At least in the headline. Actually the article deals with the urgent…
Matt Cutts Acknowledges SEO 2.0 Tactic of Linking Out as Ranking Factor (Nofollow is Dead)
Finally Matt Cutts of Google has acknowledged one of the most used SEO 2.0 tactics, linking out, as an important ranking factor. Matt Cutts of Google is seldom relevant to the practice of SEO 2.0. In contrast SEO 1.0 practitioners…
Where’s the Positivity in the SEO Industry: We’re no Criminals
One of the greatest things about the international blogosphere is its self improvement part. You have lots of outstanding positivity spirituality productivity blogs out there. You don’t have them in German in contrast. I love to read self improvement blogs…
Bing FAIL
Bing FAIL: This will be a short post, like the headline already suggests. You know, after the disastrous performance of Wolfram Alpha which was falsely hailed as Google competition I’m not really in the mood to rant again. I will…
Search: 8 Reasons Why Wolfram Alpha is a Waste of Time and no Threat to Google
Wolfram Alpha is the new overhyped “Google killer” on the block. It’s allegedly a search engine. Do you remember the last few much hyped Google killers in the search arena? Not? Well, I do. Wikia has been discontinued after just…
Why Image Optimization is Important for Blogs
Today, instead of explaining why image optimization is important for blogs I will simply demonstrate it. These are the top 12 search referers this month on SEO 2.0: Search Term Source (Google) alone image search fake image search fakes image…
10 Christmas No-Nos for SEO Specialists to Avoid at all Costs
CC: Santa chucks the finger by BoSoxBrent. It’s this dreaded season again and all of us in the SEO industry will have to endure humiliations we have to face each year. To lessen the impact of the Christmas SEO woes…
The 10 Simplest Website Tweaks for Designers to Get More Clients
Ignore this by Reeuwijk. The main message of many designers’ websites. Are you a graphic, industrial or web designer? Do you want your website to look good? Do you ignore, hate or forget SEO and usability? Well, I can help….
SearchWiki: Power to the People! Great News for SEO 2.0
These are the Google results for SEO I want to see, but Google SearchWiki doesn’t want me to keep. Most of you have noticed by now, Google has introduced a new set of features to its search called SearchWiki. It’s…
Web Success Without SEO Works: How I Entered the Top 10 for SEO Blog
When I started this blog, SEO 2.0, I proclaimed that SEO is dead and that you don’t need it anymore to succeed on the Web. Moreover I proclaimed a new kind of SEO, SEO 2.0 which works almost completely different…
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