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 […]
Shameful use of Pakistan Flood Disaster to Gain SEO Links and Traffic
IMPORTANT: Donate money to the Pakistan relief charity funds, find links at the bottom of this post! Update: I changed the title from Pakistan Floodbait: The End of The Info-Graphic into Shameful use of Pakistan Flood Disaster to Gain SEO Links and Traffic for the following reason. Everybody who knows and works with me knows […]
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, […]
SearchLabs Sao Paulo look back
The purpose of my travel two weeks ago to Sao Paulo Brazil, was presenting on SearchLabs. I was invited to speak on SEO for large ecommerce websites. Usually, as an in-house SEO, I have not much appetite to go speaking at conferences. There is hardly any value your company can get out of the fact […]
Google-Bot going crazy
Anybody checked their stats already in Google Webmaster Central? Seems Google bot is spending quite some time on my sites, where more pages are getting crawled per day starting somewhere last week. For this site: For my SF site: And for my Dutch Blog: Obviously, the whole SEO industry is buzzing about algorithm changes and […]
Eight Result SERP
If it wasn’t enough difficult to rank on the first page of Google, with all the competition, universal search includes. Now, Google is even showing less results on some search result pages. Normally, the first 10 results on any search query are already competitive. Most SEO’s will know how the click distribution on average is […]
Testing SEO tagcloud
I’m going to test some fancy html tagclouds for SEO purposes. Right now, links are in the form of image maps to link to popular products, but anchor text rich links should make a difference, especially when the page is linked from the homepage! Let’s see what the effect will be. guitar hero world tour […]
Strange things happen Google Image Search
I don’t always figure out how you can optimize for Google Image search. I used to get a decent amount of traffic on my Dutch blog for keywords White Shark (witte haai) or White Sharks (witte haaien). All that traffic was generated through image search. After the traffic had dropped, I though there might have […]
Best SEO image I’ve ever seen
As an in-house SEO I always have work in training and explaining SEO to other folks in the company. We usually try to use existing examples of our own site how we rank, how the pages are displayed and how we can improve. Explaining how the Page Title Tag, the Meta Description and the URL can […]