Google is super fast these days updating the SERPs. The sad news of John Glenn (RIP) passing has already been updated on Wikipedia and reflected in the SERP’s. However, the knowledge graph box on the right side, also based on Wikipedia, is not reflecting the changes on the John Glenn Wikipedia page. As you can see from […]
Google Answer Box Impact on SERP’s
You might ask yourself, where are the organic results on this Google Search Result? Even when you’re first in the organic results, you actually are not anymore, as Google puts a pretty large answer box in between the advertisement on top and the first result. Anybody an idea how I can trigger this box? On […]
Second Page Poaching and Technical SEO at Scale
Like so many of my peers in the SEO community, I read an article on Technical SEO on SearchEngineLand and was immediately disappointed this article even made it through the quality control of their editorial team. The article was so full of nonsense and bad advice for non-SEO experts. Luckily a lot of SEO’s expressed […]
Question: Do you have a Victoria Secret 49ers Jersey for sale?
I stumbled on the strange case for Victoria Secret to be a filter within Google image search for the query 49ers jersey. Image: 49ers jersey google image search with Victoria Secret as filter At first I thought Google had become crazy, then I was thinking of a smart way Google would test their users and see […]
Can a smart SEO Trick bring back Delicious
For years SEO’s have been chasing more links to pump up their rankings. Links IMHO are still a major factor which makes a site “pop” in the SERP’s. One of the oldest tricks in the book, is buy old domains, redirect the domain to your site with a 301-redirect, and flow all the raw pagerank […]
Real Winner of Panda 4.0 Correlation is Causation
I can’t believe this was missed by all those SEO experts writing their analysis posts about the latest Google Panda update, this is Panda 4.0! They all are focussing on the wrong stuff. You need to put your thin foil hat on to be able to see it, but it’s pretty obvious once it is […]
Revenge on Melissa Bachman for Killing a Lion
With the news of Melissa Bachman shooting a lion in Africa, posing above the corps of the lion, and posting the pictures on Twitter & Facebook. Would Melissa not have thought this could be a big deal, seriously, shooting a lion is a major no-go in my opinion. And most of the world think the […]
This is why Guest Blogging is Dead in the Water for SEO
Update: it shows how important this topic is, as the latest webmaster video by Matt Cutts is about Guest blogging. See the embedded video below… Ever wonder why Google has taken a stance against guest posting? Once again SEO’s have killed the tactic and are pissing in their own backyard. Case in point; I received […]
Own the SERP’s
Sometimes you learn more about SEO, other times you learn a little. Today, with the launch of Android KitKat, the Search results (SERP’s) for the search term KitKat changed significantly in a short time. Based on some comments online from a former search quality engineer, after I posted the screenshot of the Android/KitKat page ranking […]
The Curious Case of Webmaster Central Search Query Data
For some time, we SEO’s have known Google Webmaster Central query data is not always accurate. Ian Lurie even called it worthless. Still I look at the data once in a while to find good opportunities or small wins. For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been following a rather curious case in our Webmaster […]