Just watched this very interesting video on Webpronews about the future of search engines and the way google is going to change their algorithms in the next 6 months. Lots of talk about personalized and localized searches, something that google and Yahoo have been testing for some time now. So it’s not actually a surprise for me. But it will be a big change for webmasters. Certainly for people in the SEO services field it’s going to be very difficult to prove that their services actually work. As it will be damn hard to show how well a sites rankings are.
The future of search engines and SEO.
November 30th, 2008Hide email adres on website
November 16th, 2008Just found this cool website where you can generate code to hide your email address. Excellent way to block spammers, and it’s very easy to use. It just generates some code that you have to insert in to your website. Have a look here.
Serenpidity, Wordpress alternative?
October 18th, 2008The blogging “industry” is dominated by
Wordpress and
Blogger these days. According to
Google trends Wordpress is the biggest. I only recently found out that there is an alternative,
Serendipity. I doesn’t have all the features off Wordpress but seems like a lightweight alternative. How many people actually use all the nice web 2.0 features that Wordpress offers? Serenpidity is programmed in php and runs on MySQL, the same as Wordpress. And it aslo supports mod_rewrite for URL rewriting, a nice feature for us SEO freaks… I should give it a try 
Google website optimizer videos
July 20th, 2008Apparently Google has some videos online about website optimization. I had never seen them before, only just find out about it. I haven’t watched them all but they seem quite interesting. And who’s better then Google them self to learn us how to make a website. I think it’s every webmasters dream to rank number one on Google for some high volume keywords. There is talk about ROI, landing pages, but unfortunately nothing about seo, or how to get your sight well ranked in the Google search engine. You can check the videos out here.
Wordpress security problems.
June 20th, 2008One of my blogs was really down on traffic the last couple of weeks. Most of the traffic normally comes from google. I have written some good unique content in my native language on this blog and it ranks well for some keywords. I couldn’t really figure out what the problem was and my search engine ranking (SERP’s) hadn’t changed. While browsing digital point I came across a post about a Wordpress hack. Some code is injected to the wp-blog-header.php file, this code redirects search engine traffic to another site. I started checking all my blogs, and yes the blog that I have been working so hard on had some encrypted javascript code in that file. It’s the first time I had a security problem with one of my sites. It’s no fun working hard on a site doing your best to rank well with google and then having someone steal your search engine traffic…
To fix the problem I just deleted the whole blog (not the database of course) and installed a new wordpress, the latest version 2.5.1. I hope that does the trick. To be honest I should have updated this blog a long time ago. But I had some trouble with a plugin that didn’t work under the new 2.5 version. Lucklily I found a fix for that so I could upgrade without trouble.