The guys and girls at Ontolo have come up with a list of 124 search queries that can help build links effectively for your e-commerce business. This is where it starts people, at the search engines. A lot of people don’t even realize the start is that simple. With these smart queries you can find …
That’s right! This year I will be attending Search Engines Strategies in New York. While the SES Amsterdam is going on as I write (not attended), i’m really looking forward to my days on the SES. I have never been to New York, so that will be worth the experience as well. I’m arriving in …
Last week Richardo Dacosta asked me a very interesting question: Your contribution prevents the spiders from reading the osCsid. Would I be able to use it to prevent spiders from seeing lets say: “ref=53&affiliate_banner_id=16″ from my affiliates? if so, what do I have to do to make it work? In my last days to my …
Yes. I’m sorry. What’s keeping me busy is my new job (since february) as SEO consultant at Netsociety. Not only a great place to work with fantastic (and challenging) customers, but they are also kind enough to let me follow my dream: officially start Webshoptimizer as a business for my own. There you have it, …
Yesterday I launched my quick and dirty proof of concept for the implementation of the “canonical urls” link tag. Now I gathered some more information, tidied up the code and released it as a contribution. Always a great moment. Grab the contribution here: Canonical URL link Manual installation (for modified osCommerce shops): Open the file …
Ok, I did it (well, sort of). Here is a beta (or better: proof of concept) for the new tag which tells the search engines Google, Yahoo! and Live which URL it should have for the current page. Matt Cutts (software engineer at Google) explains the new canonical tag: The syntax is pretty simple: An …