Vanity, my favorite sin. This is a quote from the movie: Devils Advocate. The vanity has definitely worked on me, as I’ve been walking on clouds for the last couple of day. Ever since one of my favorite web apps, Buffer, has put one of my posts on their list of suggested post for their […]
Can We Please Ban In-Text Advertising
My fellow bloggers, website owners and editors. I understand we all need to make a living and money is the key driver to more freedom to do what you want. But can we please drop In-Text Advertising as a way to make our living? It’s a bad user experience, click throughs are very low on […]
Speaking at Evo Conference
Yesterday I spoke at the EVO conference in Park City. The conference is focused on the evolution of women in social media. I was invited to speak at the conference because of my SEO workshop I did last year for the eBay blogger ambassadors. Rachael Herrsher from Todaysmama.com is one of the people who started […]
Spam Comments – Do You See Comments About Pills
A couple of days ago, my buddy Hugo wrote about the comments spam on blog and how this works from a spammer perspective. Just days after this post, my inbox is overflowing with comments full with spammy links, trying to sell pills for any kind of disease. Even if you have no-follow tags on any […]
Massive Tag cloud
“Want to see my massive tag could?” or “My tag cloud is bigger than yours!” Imagine you overhear this comment from somebody. I just spotted the following tag cloud on a site which carries massive trust in the search engines based on early success. I guess if you have the domain trust on your side, […]
How To Use Google Analytics to Look for 404-Errors on Your Site
Just recently I was slightly involved in the migration of a site. The migration was somewhat successful, although a lot of planning and check lists were lagging. Although I have not been involved in a lot of migrations of websites, I know what to look out for. Unfortunately I was only consulted in a late […]
My Shared Links
As a part of my work and own development I read a lot of articles online. Per day I spend around 2 hours reading. Since I have no central place to store or keep the links which I’ve read, I started a My Shared Links section of this site, where I keep track of the […]
Humbling Lesson on My Own View of the World
Yesterday I highlighted the Info-graphic about the Pakistan flood. The Info-graphic was being used by a discount voucher affiliate website as a cheap way of getting more inbound links with their preferred keyword anchor tag. Although I was happy to call them out of heir shameless plug of the disaster in Pakistan, I blame myself […]
Universal Image Search Impact
For the last year the traffic on my Dutch San Francisco site suffered from the backlash of Universal Image search. Images of San Francisco outranked my homepage on the KW San Francisco. My listing was pushed down around end of April last year, and as you can see in the graph below, on San Francisco, […]
Happily Surprised
Sometimes you get a happy surprise. Something good happens which you did not expected. I just had such a moment after I placed a comment on a blog of one of the Mom Bloggers that visited our offices a couple of months ago, Stacey of Tree Root and Twig. It was the first time I […]