Carsten Cumbrowski

SEO Industry Survey Conducted by SEOMoz.org

January 31st, 2008 by CarstenCumbrowski | 6 Comments

In case that you are not a frequent SEOMoz.org Blog reader (something I suggest to remedy :)); they are currently conducting a very detailed SEO industry survey. 
See the SEO Industry Survey Homepage
The survey asks a wide range of questions about yourself, your employments, type of business, use of tools and services as well as what […]

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It is Time for Putting on Some Link-Condoms!

January 21st, 2008 by CarstenCumbrowski | 24 Comments

Warning! This post uses metaphors and some phrases that are not suitable for children’s eyes and ears. It is directed towards other bloggers and not the average public who does not know about the struggles and fights that occur invisible to them behind blog plug-ins and comment management and review tools and are part of […]

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Google Account Consolidation – Real World Security Concerns – An Involuntary Case Study

January 15th, 2008 by CarstenCumbrowski | 3 Comments

About Security
There are rarely talks about security breaches and problems that did or could result from those breaches in the public. The reason for that are simple, it is often embarrassing for the owner of the compromised account to admit the breach and for the solution provider to get possible flaws exposed that could result […]

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There is No G.com, Y.com, M.com, Why Not?

January 7th, 2008 by CarstenCumbrowski | 10 Comments

Google’s acquisition of the one character g.cn domain for China, reminded me of the old question about one and also two character domain names in the gTLD (generic top level domain) space like .com, .net and .org.
Who has domains that are only one or two characters long and how did they get them and why […]

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Spam for the Search Engines and a Smile for Matt Cutts

January 6th, 2008 by CarstenCumbrowski | 17 Comments

I wanted to call the post “Website Scraper, Trackback Spammer and Cloaking Bundle” at first, but then thought that the current one is a bit funnier, which is a bit more appropriate considering the irony, which will become apparent in a little bit.
Back in March when I did some research for my post about some […]

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Hardcore SEO Fundamentals: Markov Chaining Points and Term Vector Modeling

January 5th, 2008 by CarstenCumbrowski | 9 Comments

Heather Paulson from Paulson Management Group wrote a post for ReveNews.com titled “SEO Matrix’s- Markov Chaining and Term Vector Models“. It is basically a rundown of the fundamental SEO ranking factors, but from a very technical perspective, nothing for the SEO beginner and folks who were not A-Grade in math during High School and/or College.

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Google Services Bugs and Usability Issues That Spoil My Holiday Spirit – Part II

December 30th, 2007 by CarstenCumbrowski | 4 Comments

This is the second part of my series about bugs and usability issues with various Google services. My previous post was about Google Picasa and Google Checkout and also included some general comments to Google Storage, which is a paid service provided by Google to increase the amount of data you can have in your […]

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Google Services Bugs and Usability Issues That Spoil My Holiday Spirit – Part I

December 30th, 2007 by CarstenCumbrowski | 5 Comments

It’s the end of the year and I have a little gift for Google for the year 2008. It’s a summary of issues and bugs I found in the various Google services, free and paid ones as well. Some are fresh and triggered this post and some others are older where I already send a […]

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MS AdCenter Affiliate Program Launch and Some Historic Affiliate Marketing Insights

December 18th, 2007 by CarstenCumbrowski | 12 Comments

Despite the not so perfect reputation that affiliate marketing has are companies like Microsoft and even Google using this advertising and marketing channel with thousands of other retailers around the world to promote their products and services on the Internet.
Linda at 5 Star Affiliate Programs just released the news about Microsoft’s new adCenter Affiliate Program. […]

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Paid Reviews Examples by Matt Cutts and Paid Links

December 16th, 2007 by CarstenCumbrowski | 17 Comments

Matt Cutts wrote two weeks ago at his blog a post about selling links that pass PageRank.
I wanted to comment at his blog, but 500+ comments made me shy away from it and write a full post here at SearchEngineJournal.com instead. Matt presented a number of (allegedly) paid reviews/posts (there is no absolute proof that […]

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