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 […]
Google Services Bugs and Usability Issues That Spoil My Holiday Spirit – Part I
December 30th, 2007 by CarstenCumbrowski | 5 Comments
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. […]
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 […]
Google Knol”edge”, Wikipedia and Trias Politica
December 16th, 2007 by CarstenCumbrowski | 5 Comments
Arnold Zafra posted about Google’s KNOL service (derived from the word “knowledge”) already on Friday here at SearchEngineJournal.com.
Yesterday Brook Schaaf from Schaaf Consulting reported at ReveNews.com about an article about the subject at the Times Online that was published also yesterday.
11 Steps to Successful SEO for Your Business
December 16th, 2007 by CarstenCumbrowski | 34 Comments
I wrote in November a long article for my website about the necessary steps for a business to successfully engage in organic search engine optimization. The article provides an overview with additional references to go into more detail for each of the steps.
Here is a shorter and more compressed version of this article that is […]
About URL Tracking Parameters and Duplicate Content Issues
December 7th, 2007 by CarstenCumbrowski | 21 Comments
How do you deal with links that have tracking parameters in the URL for referrer measurement for analytical reasons or in case of a partner program where the referring site gets some form of compensation for referred traffic and/or customers?
The webmasters fear was regarding the duplicate URLs that are generated for the same page and […]
How to Add Content to Wikipedia the “White Hat” Way?
December 6th, 2007 by CarstenCumbrowski | 18 Comments
I gave tips to people about editing Wikipedia or getting missing content into Wikipedia over and over again, via email, blog comments etc. So I decided to put one up here, which makes it much better accessible for anybody who is interested in this subject. You might also want to see my previous article about […]
Wikipedia Article Quality Assessment and Ranking Tips for Users and Search Engine Engineers
November 22nd, 2007 by CarstenCumbrowski | 8 Comments
The subject is getting old, but I believe that the complaining about the dominance of Wikipedia articles in the Google search results will continue until something happens that will make most people happy.
Here are two posts related to this subject from this month where I actually left long comments already, before I decided to make […]
The Oracle of Mountain View
October 30th, 2007 by CarstenCumbrowski | 13 Comments
The recent PageRank™ updates by Google stirred up quite some talk within and outside the search engine marketing industry and opened room for many more or less far-fetched speculations about what this could mean. There is in my opinion no need to panic just yet, but it also does not mean that you should do […]
Fun Ways of Learning What Should Not Do
October 24th, 2007 by CarstenCumbrowski | No Comments
There is tons of useful information available on the internet about how to do this or that to promote your business, products or services on-line. Most of that information tell or suggest to you what you should do. This is helpful information and very valuable, but sometimes is the information what you should not do […]






