All I want to be is your number 1

Matt Cutts Video

Yesterday Philip Nikolayev wrote a long post about the moral (and that makes them economic) problems Google faces as they add link based penalties. I’d like to add a little. Google have always claimed they have the right to do whatever they want with their search engine. The liberal in me will always agree but [...]

Unnatural Links Warning – Why?

Natural

The recent increased activity in Webmaster Tools and in particular the Unnatural Links Warning has made me think. When Google has the ability to find links that should be discounted, why don’t they just discount them? Google have always been proud of that they do everything automaticly (it’s been a bit shaky lately but that [...]

Don’t do the fun stuff

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Something that has been bothering me with the SEO business the last years is that more and more people do just the fun stuff. Doing just the fun stuff is bad SEO and I wanted to tell you why. I want to start with an example. Likes, Retweets and Shares. A lot of people claim [...]

Klarna Checkout – This is so smart

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Swedish Startup Klarna, if you can still call it a startup once they reached a revenue of 350 million SEK ($51 million) in 2010, compare that to 20 MSEK just two years before, are launching a new service today. They are launching Klarna Checkout and it’s so smart it hurts a bit.  Klarna has been [...]

Previously in SEO…

Kitten is not impressed

There are lots of cries of despair and very few triumphic shouts in the SEO community at this time. However, SEO is a zero sum game, for every one dropping a position there is someone else gaining one. We should know that for everyone saying SEO is Dead there is someone else wooping. I’ve been [...]

SEO & Poker – what’s the deal

Poker

Poker is a very competitive segment from an SEO perspective and there are plenty of reasons for that. I’d actually stick my neck out and say that it’s the most competitive segment in SEO. Today I want to tell you a little more about this industry that I’ve been active in for the last half [...]

WordPress Page Speed Guide

Motorcycle Speed

As you probably know Google looks at the speed of your site as a part of the algorithm. It’s said that the worst sites will get dropped rather than faster sites gaining but you never know. If you’re a SunsetSEO-reader from before you certainly know that this blog has been really slow. I decided to [...]

SEO Tools – My picks

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I’m not a very active tool user when it comes to SEO, this is not because I haven’t tried them but because I’m very picky when it comes to SEO tools and use only the best. However there are a few great tools that I use often and I’d like to share them with you. [...]

Everything has changed – SEO is dead

Top 3

Every bigger update gives the same result. Some people lose positions, some gain. Lately Google has been biased towards big brands, at least compared to how it used to be. Before you know it people are starting to say that SEO is dead. I actually recieved an email telling (someone with a will to educate [...]

Superfresh Toolbar Pagerank today

Sailboat outside the shores of Malta

There has been an export of Pagerank data to the Toolbar tonight and it’s a little bit different from how it usually looks. It’s extra fresh! The data you see in the Google Toolbar, or any other toolbar showing Pagerank, har been refreshed. The toolbar always shows a snapshot from a certain day and usually [...]