Archive for the ‘General’ Category
Thursday, January 7th, 2010
In the past few years, we have seen a flurry of articles celebrating the forthcoming death of SEO (AKA linkbait) and an even larger flurry of angry rebuttal articles from the SEO community (AKA retweetbait).
So not wanting to be left out of that link party, I decided to weigh in ...
Posted in General, Google, Linking, SEO | 22 Comments »
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
In between having an awesome time at Pubcon and having not so awesome time catching pneumonia, there are quite a few articles that have gathered in my Reading List bookmark folder. So here are the articles that have caught my eye in the last few weeks.
If you think I ...
Posted in General, Google, Linking, SEO, Weekly Reading | 7 Comments »
Thursday, November 12th, 2009
Didn’t get a chance to write any updates about the Pubcon, so it is a pity that my first update is going to be a complaint, but I guess since everyone is talking about the good stuff (of which there is plenty) and it is the complaints that get you ...
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Sunday, July 12th, 2009
When beginning a new SEO campaign, a crucial first step is the keyword research. As a part of this step, one wants not only to find a comprehensive list of keywords that could serve as a potential target markets on Search Engines, but also to be able to predict amounts ...
Posted in General, Google, SEO | 34 Comments »
Sunday, June 21st, 2009
My new company got me a snazzy BlackBerry Bold to help me keep up to date with all the emails and tasks i need to do, since I am working the majority of the time from home. Since I live in Jerusalem and the new office is in Tel Aviv, ...
Posted in Blackberry, General | 5 Comments »
Saturday, June 20th, 2009
In between the whole nofollow-gate affair, SMX Advanced, Google indexing links in Java and a velvet revolution in Iran, there was a Google I/O conference. The conference sounded like a pretty cool place to be, especially with the Google Wave announcement and the Android phones being given out to all ...
Posted in General, Google, Linking, SEO | 5 Comments »
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
Just came back from the Affilicon conference where I participated on the Future of SEO panel and gave a talk about behavioral parameters that (maybe are and) will possibly be used by search engines in their ranking algos. The response to the presentation was great (especially from the SEO crowd ...
Posted in General, WordPress | 4 Comments »
Sunday, May 24th, 2009
We usually focus on optimization for the organic SERPs, but there is a lot of traffic to be found in other Google Services as well. For example, if we look at the levels of traffic other Google subdomains are receiving, we will find that even though the numbers drop sharply ...
Posted in General, Google, SEO, Science, WordPress | 12 Comments »
Thursday, April 9th, 2009
I am pulling down the last post about the IE8 compatibility tag. It looks like the quotation marks got screwed somewhere in the process of copying the tag and that was what was screwing the title tags.
My bad, will validate in the future, lesson learned.
Thanks to Thomas Scholz and ...
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Monday, March 23rd, 2009
Yesterday I gave notice at Tens Web Marketing. It feels weird to even write this, let alone do it.
I have joined Tens at 2001. Fresh out of the army, I moved to Jerusalem, searched for [internet companies in Jerusalem] on Walla and sent out my CV to all of ...
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