Archive for the ‘General’ Category

Using BlackBerry Bold as a Tethered Cellular Modem on Orange-Israel Network

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, ...

Back to SEO Basics – from Site Review Session at Google I/O 2009

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 ...

Affilicon 2009 Presentation – Behavioral Metrics in Search Engine Algorithms

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 ...

Google News Listing Troubleshooting

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 ...

False Alarm

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 ...

After 8 years

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 ...

My Thoughts on Google’s Webmaster Tools 404 Report

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

Right. It has been busy few months and it seems like there is some blogging due. Since the results of the latest batch of experiments I have been busy with are inconclusive, I thought to do a non-experimental post in the meantime, just to keep my ~500 (whoha-just-went-down-to-380-overnight-was-it-something-i-said. The numbers ...

Google counting only the first link to a domain – rebunked

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

OK, so not so long ago Rand put out a post saying that Google will count only one link to a URL from any given page. This is a phenomenon that was originally noticed by Michael VanDeMar but many an eyebrow was risen at both posts. That particular facial hair ...

Anatomy of a Google Filter/Penalty (or how not to do nofollow PR sculpting)

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

OK, so after a long break, I'm trying to get back on track with posting. Had a great time in South Africa (owe an apology to Viperchill for not giving him a call, family business was crazy mate, but I get there about once a year so maybe next time?), ...

Choosing Your SEO Testing Grounds

Monday, March 24th, 2008

OK, so after a long time and a lot of testing and data crunching, it was about time I sat and wrote about my latest SEO adventures. It seems like the SEO testing is all over the place lately. Firstly there is the excellent post by our old favorite XMCP about ...