SEO

Isulong SEOPH – Free link!

This comic strip made me to crack up. It has even been discussed at my Swedish SEO forum that people sending link exchange e-mails tend to use female names to increase their success. “PS: I’m cute too”, hehe
As for me I just dump all link exchange mails in a folder, I will [...]

Link Building Guide

Update March 27, 2009:
This article was written by me almost 3 years ago in june 2006. It needs to be updated to correctly reflect the current search engines guide lines and new methods for link building.
/ Jim Westergren

Introduction
I have been providing many thousands of links to my SEO clients and I have myself established a [...]

Hard words from John Scott

Q. Why doesn’t my online drugstone rank for “viagra”, “levitra” or “cialis”?
A. Because you’re a schmuck business adding absolutely no value to the world wide web and as such you have no quality linkage, and will continue to have no quality linkage. Google determines the value of a website based upon its linkage, and rightly [...]

Turning down SEO clients

I just explained to a Swedish client why I turned him down.
He is willing to pay 7K USD to me for the SEO job to his site.
I looked at the site for 5 minutes, read the KW he wants to target and explained to him why I choose not to take this job.
His site: English [...]

Link Value Calculator

Text Link Ads just released their Text Link Ads Calculator.
It uses Alexa, backlinks, theme, number of links to be sold, sitewide or single page and location of the link in the calculation.
Announcement and discussion at their Link Building Blog.
I certainly like it, do you?
Will you use it?

Matt Cutts on BigDaddy, linking, crawling etc

Matt Cutts just recently wrote a major post, Indexing timeline. In it he explains a great deal about the new BigDaddy infrastructure, new rules for crawling and how relevancy in regards to links now has become a lot more important.
I will quote below what I personally find very interesting from his post and his comments.

The invaluable SEO Guide

Rand has been updating his invaluable SEO Guide some months ago and today I printed it out from his word doc (26 pages) and read it on the bus while travelling.
I must say that I am really impressed. Altough I know a great deal in the SEO business I still encountered a lot of new [...]

Link Building Wiki

Wow, found another very great SEO resource. It is just released.
Let me present the Link Building Wiki.
There you have most of the things you need in the area of link building, collected by one of the most prominent in the link building business, TextLinkBrokers.com

Evidence of related text with links giving rank boost

EDIT: April 30, 2006:
What I was seeing below was Co Citation in full action, it was not “related text with links” as I thought. Thanks to Gustaf for the heads up (below) and thanks to Jim Boykin for explaining Co Citation.
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One of the keyword terms that I track is “Jim Westergren”. I know what is [...]

retsambew dash klat for Charity

My friend Praveen sent me a tip about the latest SEO Contest hat is hosted by Webmaster-Talk.
Link love goes to charity and someone actually thought about the rules this time. For example you have to have a new domain but not have the keywords in it … interesting.
Here are full details:
http://www.webmaster-talk.com/seo-talk-forum/44465-webmaster-talk-com-seo-contest.html
Not sure if I [...]

Matt Cutts answers questions

The latest blog post of Matt Cutts of Google is a Questions and Answer post.
There he answers a lot of questions including the RK parameter and gives a lot of valuable info for an SEO:
Here:
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/q-a-thread-march-27-2006/
Thanks Matt.
EDIT:
Some more info about his post:
http://www.seo-scoop.com/2006/03/30/tidbits-of-google-knowledge/
http://www.irishwonder.syndk8.co.uk/2006/03/29/matt-cutts-selected-quotes/

Some observations of Googles fresh boost

Site A
Article site that ranked extremely well starting just some days after it went online with 20-60 daily referrals from Google between 10th December 2005 to 4th February 2006 then suddenly nothing. Literally 0 Google referrals after that. 8 weeks before hitting the sandbox.
Link building: Agressive and many PR 4-5 links and also sitewides when [...]

BigDaddy export completed

The new BigDaddy infrastructure has now been exported to all or almost all of the datacenters.
Now the strange shift between datacenters when searching is over.
Coverage:
http://www.seo-scoop.com/2006/03/25/big-daddy-rollout-complete/
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/bigdaddy-status-update-almost-there/
Let’s see if something more interesting will happen.

Main BlackHat joined blog of main WhiteHat

It is true, no kidding.
Geoffrey, aka as G-Man, who is probably the most known BlackHat spammer there is has joined the blog of SEOMoz, administered by RandFish – one of the highest profiles in the Pro SEO industry.
RandFish introducing him:
http://www.seomoz.org/blogdetail.php?ID=931
His SEOMoz profile: (he has 100K spam sites)
http://www.seomoz.org/profile.php?user_id=7277
His first post:
http://www.seomoz.org/blogdetail.php?ID=932
Ethical as I am, I don’t really [...]

Forums, Branding and Public Relations

If you are an SEO Consultant that charges $80 per hour like me, have too many clients and too little time – why would you go to forums and spend 15 minutes only to answer some guy asking SEO questions on a forum, for free and giving out valuable information? Why?
And why would you start [...]

Interviewed by Aaron Pratt

Aaron Pratt is a friendly guy and runs SEO Buzzbox, a very interesting blog.
On this blog he has interviewed known profiles in the SEO/SEM industry. And so far in the SEO/SEM field he has interviewed:

Aaron Wall
Greg Boser
Jeremy Zawodny
Jill Whalen
Jim Boykin
John Scott
Lee Odden
Michael Gray
Mike Grehan
Rand Fishkin
Sebastian

I had some contact with Aaron and helped him on answering [...]

Raderad / Erased

Denna post är raderad på grund av hot och tjafs om stämning från en viss person.
Se denna tråd istället: http://www.webmasternetwork.se/f8t13353.html
När du har läst den tråden så läs sedan denna tråd och denna artikel i IDG.
Det förklarar allt …
För er som är intresserad av riktigt SEO så har jag just nyligen startat ett svenskt forum [...]

Buying and Selling Links – Session at SES NYC

Want to know what the pros are thinking about buying and selling links? What people like Eric Ward has to say?
Here is the write-up from SE Roundtable.
Nothing really new but it is interesting to read what they have to say.

SE Algorithms – RandFish’s session at SES NYC

From the Search Engine Strategies in New York there are perhaps 50 pages blogged already by SE Roundtable, Matt Cutts and many more. From what I have read so far the most interesting is the presentation by Randfish on the Search Engine Algorithms.
See this blog post from Rand.
The powerpoint presentation can be seen here.
One of [...]

Postal address adds trust?

Google and the other engines are getting more and more sophisticated.
It is no longer just relevans and popularity (links, PR) but the factor of trust is now a major factor.
It has been speculated that by placing your postal address on your web site you add to the trust factor which seem very logical.
It dawned on [...]