Author: Roy

  • It’s been a while…

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    Roy

    But with a fresh start after the summer holidays a lot of stuff happened. My buddy Joost left, my job description changed a bit, got some more and other responsibilities now and my colleagues wrote a book which I read and did some quality checks on. I also made some of the images in the…

  • If you play the SEO game…

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    Roy

    If you play the SEO game you should not wine about losing the ball (or the whole game) every now and then. The Search Quality team is doing a fine job in the Netherlands right now by giving +30 penalties and blocking old school directory like linkfarm pages like www.goedbegin.com and www.startnu.nl. Rule number 1.…

  • Seriously, what Firefox plugins do I really need?

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    Roy

    Well? On my macbook (yeay!) I did a fresh install of Firefox and it never was this fast and stable. Which firefox extensions are still necessary for SEO? I already have: Firebug, SearchStatus, SEO Link analysis and the web-developer toolbar. I know there are lots of good extensions out there, but which one is really…

  • Hey Google, about that canonical thing…

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    While searching for lego stuff for my son I started out with a query about [lego]. Either this is a canonical issue, or good online reputation management. I do not doubt about the greatness of Lego but is this really what you think is useful for your users? Maybe it’s a better idea to use…

  • Affiliate Day in the Fabrique

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    What’s on my mind now? Well Tuesday I went with five colleague’s to the Affiliate day, which was organized by Paul Schoenmakers (Shoemaker, coincidence?). The keynote that day was done by Kris Jones, from pepperjam network, an affiliate network started only because he was tired by the networks that didn’t listen to the super affiliates.…

  • Best site ever?

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    Roy

    We all know Goatse (I actually have t-shirt about that, call me a nerd) and today sugarrea (twitter) pointed the people on twitter to this site. It’s not filthy like goatse is, but it sure is funny as hell. Check it out: http://thingsididlastnight.com/ This definitely deserves a link from me. Great link bait, too bad…

  • Google’s shortcuts for competition: friend connect

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    Google just did it again. They managed to bring out an innovative shortcut to prevent a threat. This time the threat of social search, at least they try a bit.  Let’s start this post of with a quote: The greatest trick the devil pulled was convincing people he never existed… (feel free to comment the…

  • Reactionary vs. Visionary SEO

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    Roy

    After reading the post from Shoemoney about SEO not having a future I’ve started to think. First off, I think he’s right. SEO is a Goldrush the last couple of years. A lot of ‘snake oil salesmen’ (by Jason Calacanis) are making a quick buck with some meta keywords and title stuff. Others have great…

  • Here it is, a brand new blog!

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    Roy

    Welcome Folks, *insert big hollow echo sound in here* Since I could keep blogging in Dutch, I thought that I’d try blogging in English. Especially since I meet a lot of people who never heard of me, my thoughts, my stupid ideas and the stuff I try in another language then Dutch. The blog is…