Archive for the 'Jim Westergren' Category

Some random news #1

September 4th, 2006

I don’t really have time to blog so here are you get the short version all at once and in no order:

You can now change colors of this site.
This site got just listed in DMOZ.
I won an alexa competition.
My business partner who is also my father sold his house and is moving to another […]

Ambatchdotcom SEOcontest

September 4th, 2006

A few people has been pushing me to participate in this Ambatchdotcom SEOcontest.
I have tried to resist and tried to explain how busy I am and I don’t have time for this anymore but now I give it a go, I am very curious on one thing and I will do a test to see […]

New Page Strength SEO Tool

September 4th, 2006

SEOmoz has just recently released a new kick ass SEO tool:
Page Strength SEO Tool
I really like this tool and it is far better in measuring page strength than the crappy PR. Actually PageRank has just been updated and I checked my 45 sites … the values are more weird then ever. The start page […]

Superspammer getting billions of pages in Google

June 22nd, 2006

A spammer from Romania has found a loophole in Google and is getting billions of subdomains into Google in just 3 weeks - and ranks them!
Here is a site query of one of the domains.
The stupid thing is that he also ranks: example 1, example 2.
“TheHoff” is writing how this was done on his blog […]

Isulong SEOPH - Free link!

June 17th, 2006

This comic strip made me to crack up. It has even been discussed at my Swedish SEO forum that people sending link exchange e-mails tend to use female names to increase their success. ?PS: I?m cute too?, hehe
As for me I just dump all link exchange mails …

Matt Cutts on BigDaddy, linking, crawling etc

June 12th, 2006

Matt Cutts just recently wrote a major post, Indexing timeline. In it he explains a great deal about the new BigDaddy infrastructure, new rules for crawling and how relevancy in regards to links now has become a lot more important.
I will quote below what I personally find very interesting from …

Turning down SEO clients

June 7th, 2006

I just explained to a Swedish client why I turned him down.
He is willing to pay 7K USD to me for the SEO job to his site.
I looked at the site for 5 minutes, read the KW he wants to target and explained to him why I choose not to …

Link Building Guide

June 7th, 2006

Introduction
I have been providing many thousands of links to my SEO clients and I have myself established a number of PR6 sites and almost won the biggest SEO contest ever with the means of huge link power.
The purpose of this article is to help you in your link building using …

Hard words from John Scott

June 7th, 2006

Q. Why doesn’t my online drugstone rank for “viagra”, “levitra” or “cialis”?
A. Because you’re a schmuck business adding absolutely no value to the world wide web and as such you have no quality linkage, and will continue to have no quality linkage. Google determines the value of a website based …

Link Value Calculator

May 25th, 2006

Text Link Ads just released their Text Link Ads Calculator.
It uses Alexa, backlinks, theme, number of links to be sold, sitewide or single page and location of the link in the calculation.
Announcement and discussion at their Link Building Blog.
I certainly like it, do you?
Will you use it?

Matt Cutts on BigDaddy, linking, crawling and more

May 20th, 2006

Matt Cutts just recently wrote a major post, Indexing timeline. In it he explains a great deal about the new BigDaddy infrastructure, new rules for crawling and how relevancy in regards to links now has become a lot more important.
I will quote below what I personally find very interesting from …

The invaluable SEO Guide

May 20th, 2006

Rand has been updating his invaluable SEO Guide some months ago and today I printed it out from his word doc (26 pages) and read it on the bus while travelling.
I must say that I am really impressed. Altough I know a great deal in the SEO business I still …

Link Building Wiki

May 20th, 2006

Wow, found another very great SEO resource. It is just released.
Let me present the Link Building Wiki.
There you have most of the things you need in the area of link building, collected by one of the most prominent in the link building business, TextLinkBrokers.com

Evidence of related text with links giving rank boost

April 28th, 2006

One of the keyword terms that I track is ?Jim Westergren?. I know what is in the SERPs about that phrase and thus it is easy to track and analyse.
Yahoo query, 35,200 hits.
On the first result is this blog, of course, but on the second is SEO-Fusion.com which is very …

Interviewed by Aaron Pratt

April 25th, 2006

Aaron Pratt is a friendly guy and runs SEO Buzzbox, a very interesting blog.
On this blog he has interviewed known profiles in the SEO/SEM industry. And so far in the SEO/SEM field he has interviewed:

Aaron Wall
Greg Boser
Jeremy Zawodny
Jill Whalen
Jim Boykin
John Scott
Lee Odden
Michael Gray
Mike Grehan
Rand Fishkin
Sebastian

I had some contact with Aaron …

Raderad / Erased

April 5th, 2006

Denna post är raderad:
Se denna tråd istället: http://www.webmasternetwork.se/f8t13353.html
För er som är intresserad av riktigt SEO så har jag just nyligen startat ett svenskt forum inom SEO, SEO-Forum.se.

retsambew dash klat for Charity

April 3rd, 2006

My friend Praveen sent me a tip about the latest SEO Contest hat is hosted by Webmaster-Talk.
Link love goes to charity and someone actually thought about the rules this time. For example you have to have a new domain but not have the keywords in it ? interesting.
Here are …

Matt Cutts answers questions

March 29th, 2006

The latest blog post of Matt Cutts of Google is a Questions and Answer post.
There he answers a lot of questions including the RK parameter and gives a lot of valuable info for an SEO:
Here:
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/q-a-thread-march-27-2006/
Thanks Matt.

Some observations of Googles fresh boost

March 26th, 2006

Site A
Article site that ranked extremely well starting just some days after it went online with 20-60 daily referrals from Google between 10th December 2005 to 4th February 2006 then suddenly nothing. Literally 0 Google referrals after that. 8 weeks before hitting the sandbox.
Link building: Agressive and many PR 4-5 …

BigDaddy export completed

March 26th, 2006

The new BigDaddy infrastructure has now been exported to all or almost all of the datacenters.
Now the strange shift between datacenters when searching is over.
Coverage:
http://www.seo-scoop.com/2006/03/25/big-daddy-rollout-complete/
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/bigdaddy-status-update-almost-there/
Let?s see if something more interesting will happen.

Main BlackHat joined blog of main WhiteHat

March 23rd, 2006

It is true, no kidding.
Geoffrey, aka as G-Man, who is probably the most known BlackHat spammer there is has joined the blog of SEOMoz, administered by RandFish - one of the highest profiles in the Pro SEO industry.
RandFish introducing him:
http://www.seomoz.org/blogdetail.php?ID=931
His SEOMoz profile: (he has 100K spam sites)
http://www.seomoz.org/profile.php?user_id=7277
His first post:
http://www.seomoz.org/blogdetail.php?ID=932
Ethical as …

PageRank was updated

March 15th, 2006

The green bar was updated a while ago and I now have 2 PR6, 12 PR5, 9 PR4 & 5 PR3 of the 27 web sites.
The reason for the home page of this site being 4 and not 6 when the interal pages are PR 4-5 and one even 6 …

Interview by Aaron Pratt

March 7th, 2006

Aaron Pratt is a friendly guy and runs SEO Buzzbox, a very interesting blog.
On this blog he has interviewed known profiles in the SEO/SEM industry. And so far in the SEO/SEM field he has interviewed:

Aaron Wall
Greg Boser
Jeremy Zawodny
Jill Whalen
Jim Boykin
John Scott
Lee Odden
Michael Gray
Mike Grehan
Rand Fishkin
Sebastian

I had some contact with Aaron …

Altus AB

March 6th, 2006

Nu har det verkligen gått för långt.
SEO-skojaren Altus AB är nu till och med värre än Jajja Communications.
Jag skäms när jag jag i diskutioner med internationella SEO-proffs tar upp Sverige och måste nämna hur de stora SEO bolagen tar hand om sökmotoroptimering för sina kunder.
Altus AB har blivit bannade av …

Buying and Selling Links - Session at SES NYC

March 2nd, 2006

Want to know what the pros are thinking about buying and selling links? What people like Eric Ward has to say?
Here is the write-up from SE Roundtable.
Nothing really new but it is interesting to read what they have to say.