Comparing Link Data Providers – Moz vs. Majestic SEO vs. Ahrefs
Link Data is big money nowadays, there are several providers trying to crack the market and to be honest, there are rather big differences in what they deliver. This is something I wrote about a while ago here. If you’re looking for comprehensive and accurate link data where should you go and how much should [...]
Link Avowal Tool
You’re obviously aware of Googles Disavow Tool for links you want nothing to do with. As we’re a whole lot nicer than Google we want to give you the opposite: A Link Avowal Tool. You can now claim pages that should have a link to you in the form below. It’s quicker, easier and cheaper [...]
What would Gordon Ramsay do
After watching two full seasons of Kitchen Nightmares this weekend I realized something. Our industry desperately needs Gordon Ramsay. I spent the majority of last weekend in bed with a flu, luckily that gave me the opportunity to watch two full seasons of Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares. What I found out is that it’s actually [...]
Not Provided is the problem – Prism the solution
In October 2011 Google announced that they were starting to encrypt searches for logged in users. The reason for this was, not as the critics claimed to force marketers to go to Adwords and pay for the data but to protect the integrity of the users. Prism however, seems to be the solution for the [...]
Inbound Marketing – Moving away from SEO?
There has been a lot of talk lately about how SEO has become a tainted word and that a lot of companies in the industry are moving towards Inbound Marketing. The ones moving with the longest strides are SEOmoz, now Moz. I have no problem with Moz and others preferring to be called inbound marketers, [...]
Baby’s got an Atom Bomb
Very rarely do I get upset at Google, the Webspam Team or any other aspects of the search engine business. One of the few things that annoy me is all the smoke and mirror-PR they do. I’m aware that they make it easier for themselves by trying to get us (webmasters and SEO’s) to [...]
5 Tasks with 5 Online SEO Tools: Doing a Quick Site Audit
Today I nearly smashed my head over a laptop when one of my clients called in violent hysterics and said all his site rankings sank down! It took me about half an hour to discover that the rankings “disappeared” in the tool the client developed himself for rank tracking… Sometimes the app failure just costs [...]
Linkedin – my top pick
Out of all social networks, Linkedin is by far my favourite. The others have advantages of course but all of them scream for attention and my view of Linkedin is that it doesn’t. I’m not always logged in on Linkedin as I might be on Facebook, I don’t really read whats happening in that steady [...]
Sometimes I feel like a caveman
I’m certain that the number of blogs about SEO is higher than the amount of people actually working with SEO. All of them produce a constant stream of new revelations, new ranking factors and new ways of getting the neighbour to link to you. If it’s not about hacking the local search it’s about increasing [...]
IDN-domains – International SEO
If you’ve ever done SEO outside the English speaking part of the world you’ve ran into Internationalized Domain Names for sure. It might not be 100% clear how the get handled by Google though so I thought I’d sort things out for you. IDN:s didn’t work out very good in the beginning when they were [...]
