CarstenCumbrowski Latest search engine news blog articles from CarstenCumbrowski. http://www.seocentro.com/seo-archives/author/CarstenCumbrowski.html CarstenCumbrowski News Archive http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12624 I just received notification that SpyFu Kombat was launched today. SpyFu Kombat is an add-on to the classic SpyFu online service by VelocityScape . For those who are not familiar with SpyFu at all, have a look at my article from 2006 where I described the features of the service in greater detail. SpyFu is the commercial successor of the popular and free tool GoogSpy , which is not available anymore. SpyFu continues to offer some free information, Search Engines News SEO News CarstenCumbrowski CarstenCumbrowski Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:57:20 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12079 Which one is more likely to yield results and helps to succeed in solving problems and resolving conflicts eventually? I recently read something that made a strong case for the PRO approach, illustrated by a political example that anybody could easily relate to and has an opinion about. It was a somewhat political publication of course, so I won't mention the name and the author, because my intention is not to write a political post here. Search Engines News SEO News CarstenCumbrowski CarstenCumbrowski Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:53:18 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10845 Brian Klais wrote in June, 2008 in his post " Amazon's Secret to Dominating SERP Results " at the Natural Search Blog about how  Amazon.com leverages the inbound links of their vast number of affiliates for their organic SEO advantage by 301-redirecting BOTs for the URLs that include the affiliate tracking code to the single primary URL of the same page that they want to be indexed by the search engines. Some folks think that what Amazon. Search Engines News SEO News CarstenCumbrowski CarstenCumbrowski Thu, 11 Sep 2008 01:55:51 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=7797 You think that somebody learns from past mistakes and does not repeat the same mistake over and over again. That does not seem to be true in the case of Google, specifically with their YouTube.com property. After my very negative experience in January this year did one thing change to the better as a direct or indirect consequence of it. There is now a help page at the YouTube web page and a designated email address for related issues. However, Search Engines News SEO News CarstenCumbrowski CarstenCumbrowski Sun, 22 Jun 2008 14:33:17 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=7195 My post with my book reviews in April this year was so well received that I decided to continue with this and write another review. I do not plan to limit myself to reviews of pure SEO and SEM/PPC related books and will cover books that are related to online marketing in a broader sense. The latest book that I got is about blogging. SEO elements are included in the book, which is not surprising, Search Engines News SEO News CarstenCumbrowski CarstenCumbrowski Mon, 09 Jun 2008 02:31:40 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=7051 Complicated things are often explained the best by making an analogy and using a simple real life example where people can relate to. Practical business examples and case studies that are based on a real project you worked on is also very good, but there is often the problem that you cannot share all relevant data and thoughts with the public, due to business interest and secrets that need to be protected. Sure, Search Engines News SEO News CarstenCumbrowski CarstenCumbrowski Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:23:35 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=5965 I came across this video podcast episode of PBS's Wired Science with Luis von Ahn, the guy who came up with " Captcha ", those fuzzy looking words that you have to enter on websites sometimes as proof that you are human. " Captcha " was developed to prevent automation (usually via scripting) of a process, such as the creation of a user account. "Captcha" images are not readable by computers. Search Engines News SEO News CarstenCumbrowski CarstenCumbrowski Fri, 09 May 2008 00:25:48 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=5733 I revisited today an older post of mine that talks about paid links and the problems that I have with the way how Google is trying to solve the problem . One of the last comments to the post asked a question, which many professional SEOs probably asked themselves too. I never did, because I am not a professional SEO and clients to worry about. However, Search Engines News SEO News CarstenCumbrowski CarstenCumbrowski Sun, 04 May 2008 11:06:15 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=4597 In this day and age where blogs provide fast and up to date information about developments in the industry are conventional publication mediums such as print seem to be archaic. But print is not just dead yet. As a matter of fact, blogging might be popular with the influencers and early adopters so is the general population still doing it the old ways. Believe it or not, but books are still being read and written by people. Search Engines News SEO News CarstenCumbrowski CarstenCumbrowski Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:15:34 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=4023 The amount of activity and participation of people on sites like MySpace, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, Wikipedia, Digg, Del.icio.us and other so called social media sites and social networks that make up what we call the new Web or Web 2.0, did not go unnoticed by the big business out there. The possibilities to do something good with it for your business are real, but hard to gauge, measure, adjust and redirect like how must things in the real world and the good old Web 1.0. Search Engines News SEO News CarstenCumbrowski CarstenCumbrowski Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:34:36 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=2767 Google launched without making much public fuzz about it, the beta tests of a new feature for Google AdWords called "Automatic Matching". Dan Thies over at SEO Fast Start broke this just over one week ago on February 22, 2008 and warned advertisers not to "fall for this" and disable this option (which gets obviously enabled automatically for the select "guinea pig" accounts from what I heard so far). "The broad match feature of AdWords is bad enough, folks. Search Engines News SEO News CarstenCumbrowski CarstenCumbrowski Tue, 04 Mar 2008 05:49:09 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=2565 Jason Calacanis talked at Gnomdex 7 in September 2007 about the days on the internet when only a handful new site appeared on the web every day and could be announced via an email newsletter and checked out by everybody every day. The sites were generally good and rich on content. Junk was the exception, so was email spam, comment spam and other worthless content. Yes, everything is nice and clean, if it is small, non-mainstream and not commercially exploited. Search Engines News SEO News CarstenCumbrowski CarstenCumbrowski Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:42:22 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=2004 I know, it has been a while since my last post, but I was crazy busy. I have something else that I plan to write about in my queue, but it is not finished yet. But I have something else ready that is also fairly useful in my humble opinion. Here is a long and pretty detailed list of questions that a website owner should asked himself about his own website. If the answer to every question that follows below was answered with yes, Search Engines News SEO News CarstenCumbrowski CarstenCumbrowski Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:41:04 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=962 Despite the not so perfect reputation that affiliate marketing has are companies like Microsoft and even Google using this advertising and marketing channel with thousands of other retailers around the world to promote their products and services on the Internet. Linda at 5 Star Affiliate Programs just released the news about Microsoft's new adCenter Affiliate Program. See her blog post here and the official press release here . Search Engines News SEO News CarstenCumbrowski CarstenCumbrowski Tue, 18 Dec 2007 21:32:39 GMT