Category: Rants

Wikipedia has added “nofollow” on external links. »

The Wikipedia is now offically unable to deal with the huge amount of spammers that target their articles, they have decided to add the rel=”nofollow” attribute to all external links! This is not a unexpected move, I had expected that Wikipedia would decleare defeat this soon. I sort of expected that the huge community of [...]

Money for Nothing and Squid for Free »

Not long ago I signed up with squidoo and created a lens. I never expected to make any money from it, but to my surprise I noticed that they had sent me a little more than 125$ via Pay Pal. Acording to the stats I created the lens November 14th, and last edited it December [...]

Should bots read CSS files? »

Search engines bots are sometimes fetching style sheets and external java scripts. It is not a huge problem, but it makes me wonder if any of the major search engines are using these files in order to do quality control. If so it would be with good reason, but at the same time I would [...]

A classic SEO mistake »

I have been hired to make suggestions for a site, it is using a .se domain, but the whole site is written in English and is targeting a mostly US market. The web site has been around for almost ten years and have a lot of back links. The site is preforming really well in [...]

I am a SEO quack »

Jill Whalen just called me a quack. She has published a list called : “10 Signs That Your SEO Is a Quack”, and I am matching 3 of these signs. Great, I am a quack. If you have not done so already then you better read the whole thing over at her site before reading [...]

What is dropkick? »

I went to a party last Saturday, not a huge party just a friends birthday where we sat around drinking beer and talking. Then of some reason the word dropkick came into the conversation. What does drop kick really mean. Someone suggested looking it up using the computer that managed the music. Great! Would she [...]

SEO’s are not internet marketers »

I am sick and tired of SEO’s that claim to be marketers.
A Internet marketer is trained in making assessments, research the market, identity development, building brand awareness and so on. It is not something you could learn in a week end, you need to spend at least five years getting a master degree in that [...]