Search Engine Journal

You think that somebody learns from past mistakes and does not repeat the same mistake over and over again. That does not seem to be true in the case of Google, specifically with their YouTube.com property.
After my very negative experience in January this year did one thing change to the better as a direct or […]

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My post with my book reviews in April this year was so well received that I decided to continue with this and write another review. I do not plan to limit myself to reviews of pure SEO and SEM/PPC related books and will cover books that are related to online marketing in a broader sense. […]

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Complicated things are often explained the best by making an analogy and using a simple real life example where people can relate to. Practical business examples and case studies that are based on a real project you worked on is also very good, but there is often the problem that you cannot share all relevant […]

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I came across this video podcast episode of PBS’s Wired Science with Luis von Ahn, the guy who came up with “Captcha“, those fuzzy looking words that you have to enter on websites sometimes as proof that you are human.

“Captcha” was developed to prevent automation (usually via scripting) of a process, such as the creation […]

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I revisited today an older post of mine that talks about paid links and the problems that I have with the way how Google is trying to solve the problem. One of the last comments to the post asked a question, which many professional SEOs probably asked themselves too. I never did, because I am […]

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In this day and age where blogs provide fast and up to date information about developments in the industry are conventional publication mediums such as print seem to be archaic.

But print is not just dead yet. As a matter of fact, blogging might be popular with the influencers and early adopters so is the general […]

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The amount of activity and participation of people on sites like MySpace, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, Wikipedia, Digg, Del.icio.us and other so called social media sites and social networks that make up what we call the new Web or Web 2.0, did not go unnoticed by the big business out there.
The possibilities to do something good […]

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Google launched without making much public fuzz about it, the beta tests of a new feature for Google AdWords called “Automatic Matching”.
Dan Thies over at SEO Fast Start broke this just over one week ago on February 22, 2008 and warned advertisers not to “fall for this” and disable this option (which gets obviously enabled […]

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Jason Calacanis talked at Gnomdex 7 in September 2007 about the days on the internet when only a handful new site appeared on the web every day and could be announced via an email newsletter and checked out by everybody every day.
The sites were generally good and rich on content. Junk was the exception, so […]

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I know, it has been a while since my last post, but I was crazy busy. I have something else that I plan to write about in my queue, but it is not finished yet. But I have something else ready that is also fairly useful in my humble opinion.
Here is a long and pretty […]

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