Category: Rants

untitled document »

As of now a search for untitled document returns an estimated 17.800.00 results in the Google web search. It is sort of sad that so many of various reasons doesn’t change the default title, since the title element is the most a very important on page factor when search engines score documents.

So you want to be a SEO? »

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the improvement of documents and collection of documents to make them score better in an algorithmic search. In other words a SEO specialist both need to understand algorithms and document creation. SEO is best known when it comes to optimization of web-pages (HTML documents) to […]

SEO is bullshit? »

Jason Calacanis writes in his blog that SEO is bullshit and he is right? When you look at the whole SEO market then I would agree that at least 90% are snake oil salesmen. It is often people that are more skilled when it comes to sending out invoices and asking for referrals than to […]

Failed comment bait. »

What the heck is wrong with people? Hardly anyone comments on this blog, so I set up a comment bait.
Two days ago I wrote a blog post about:

President George Bush
Iraq and the Iraq war
Osama bin Laden and terrorism
Google.

I even suspended the registration requirement to comment. What the heck happend? Any combination of these for elements […]

George Bush gets a hand job »

George Walter Bush is one TOUGH president. I do not think that there are many men that could successfully fill his shoes without going into a deep depression. After the most successful attack against the USA since Perl Harbor, he had no choice but to strike back. It is now 5 1/2 years […]

Why am I linking to Wikipedia? »

Because of Wikipedias adoption of the rel=”nofollow” attribute there is a campaign on the growing with the goal of reducing the PageRank of Wikipedia, by adding the rel=”nofollow” attribute to all links into Wikipedia. At this very moment there are people writing plugins for Wordpress and other popular content management systems to do this automatically. […]

Why is sma-eu.org parked at SEDO? »

The home page of Search Marketing Association EU is parked at SEDO at the same time does both both Search Marketing Association of North America and Search Marketing Association UK link to it? Why? It makes SMA-NA look bad.
SMA-UK has no up comming events and the most recent event was the second of November 2005. […]

Shoemoney manipulates vote! »

Jeremy Schoemaker asked his followers to vote for Jennifer Slegg in the “Queen of Search” vote over at marketingpilgrim, and surprise, surprise she suddenly got 53% of the votes. My guess is that most voted for her just because Jeremy told them:
WTF my friend Jen from jensense.com only has 2% of the vote on […]

The SEO Book on Pirate Bay + random rant »

Aaron Wall is selling his SEO Book for $79 per copy, but the Pirate Bay is giving it away for free and so far it has been downloaded 961 times, it adds up to $75.919. Ouch! Then again so is the fate of so many others publishers.
How is it possible to protect copyrighted materials, the […]

Marketers Should NOT run Restaurants. »

I have always thought that chefs are best suited to run restaurants. A chef is a culinary expert and have the skills and training needed to manage a restaurant. However in my favorite forum, there is a respected member that are of the opinion that chefs should not run restaurants, a chef is according to […]