My top 20 SEO take-aways from SMX London

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As you might know from my tweets I attended SMX London this week.

I really enjoyed the conference which had some good sessions and speakers. The London SEO networking event with all the local SEO’s was great fun as well.

I wrote down my top 20 SEO quotes and take-aways from SMX London, which I posted at SearchCowboys:
“Top 20 SEO quotes from SMX London” – SearchCowboys.com

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“Top 20 SEO quotes from SMX London” – Sphinn

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7 golden rules of link building in 2009

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Link building is a vital part of SEO ever since search engines started using the link structure of the web to capture the relative importance of web pages.

The link building economy especially took off since Google introduced PageRank, their algorithm for prioritizing the results of web keyword searches based on analyzing the citation (link) graph of the web.

Link Building in 2009
But is relying on PageRank still the way to go with link building in 2009, 10 years after Google introduced …

Why could Google die? Read this!

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Last december the people of FaberNovel created an excellent presentation about Google, titled “Everything you always wanted to know about Google…But were afraid to ask”.

Last month they created another fabulous presentation with a more serious title this time: “Why could Google die . . . maybe not now, but tomorrow”.

French consulting company FaberNovel again succeeded in creating a very comprehensive and easy to read presentation, defining 12 of Google’s weaknesses.

Go read the Sli…

UK Search engine market research in depth (graphs)

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Last week I stumbled upon a recent Hitwise video seminar of their extensive UK Search engine market research.

Hitwise analyzed the top 1,500 terms searched for in the 12 weeks ending 3rd January 2009 (the last quarter of 2008) across the top 5 UK search engines, being Google.co.uk, Google.com, Yahoo, Live Search ans Ask.

Hitwise pulled out all the non-branded terms and attached a subject area to them. For example, ‘football’ was labelled as sport, ‘tv guide’ as TV, ‘oasis’ as m…

Some Search-food for thought

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First of all I want to apologize for not writing here since a last month. I’ve just been incredibly busy and didn’t find a lot of time to blog (besides some Dutch writings).

I kept up with the Search news though and thought I’d share some highlights here. At least that makes me feel a little less bad about not writing here that long
So here we go:

SEO: Google, Yahoo & Microsoft unite on “Canonical Tag” to reduce duplicate content
The big news in SEO-land of course was the announc…

I’m nominated for a SEMMY!

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My article “Measuring SEO: why rankings are worthless”, which I wrote for Joost de Valk’s blog, is nominated for a SEMMY in the SEO category!

The SEMMYS?
What are The SEMMYS? From the site:

The SEMMYS are an annual awards event honoring the great content produced across the search and online marketing industry, initiated by Matt McGee.

Search Engine Marketing (SEM) has grown to include a variety of disciplines, including blogging, social media, reputation management, and much more. …

How can Microsoft succeed in Search?

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I could write my own opinion on how Microsoft could be succesful in Search, but I definitely can’t beat Danny Sullivan at this.

Last week he wrote a very good article about it and names a couple of interesting points and suggestions. I highly recommend reading it: “Tough Love For Microsoft Search”.

Some quotes from the article as a summary:

Take Search serious
For nearly four years now, I’ve diligently tried to get Microsoft to have either Bill Gates or Steve Ballmer do a simila…

Happy New Year!

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Just a short post to wish you all a “Search-a-licious” 2009! Above all I wish you a year with health, luck and fun!

Thanks for finding your way to my blog in the last couple of months of its existence! I appreciate every visitor, comment and email very much!

Thanks again from within my new Amsterdam based appartement!

(Ps. this isn’t the view from my appartment, but the real view isn’t that bad either )…

Want to know everything about Google? Read this!

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This is just a short post, but definitely not with less quality. I’d like to point you to this fabulous presentation which clearly outlines why Google is doing what they’re is doing.

Heads up for the people at FaberNovel! (French site).

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SEO Question: does a non-indexed page pass on PageRank?

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Last week I was reading about Google’s PageRank formula as it was originally created. As you probably know, PageRank is a numeric value which Google assigns to all the pages in its index, based on the incoming links to a page, to determine the relative value of a page.

Google founders Larry Page (recognize the similarity with PageRank ) and Sergei Brin stated in their original paper that a page need to be in Google’s index to pass on PageRank.

Want PageRank? Get indexed
That made me wo…