No. 1 on Google and No Clicks

Title Problem traffic drop effect

In the last few months I have been moving some websites from subdomains to new domains and sometimes changing there apperance. Here is what happened on one of them... The site was number One on Google for a long tail keywords phrase and it site was getting some nice traffic from this term. After the move from its sub-domain life and going into its own domain I changed the template to a more suitable one and optimized the site to get more traffic. One thing I did was the craft the Home … [Read more...]

Sunday 24 January 2010 By 3 Comments Filed Under: SEO, WordPress Tagged With: , , ,
+Herbert-Jan van Dinther

Moving from Feedburner to Google Feeds and Why?

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If you are running your feeds through Feedburner, you should know that Google bought that service in 2007. Now they are making the next step, moving the feeds from Feedburner.com to feeds.google.com. And you have to follow... and you should do it before the end of February 2009. How? well there is nice instruction written by Michel Martin from Pro Blog Design on How to Move from Feedburner to Google I just moved my Feeds over to my Google account and it is really easy and you cannot !! go … [Read more...]

Wednesday 21 January 2009 By 6 Comments Filed Under: Blogging, Search Engine Tagged With: , ,
+Herbert-Jan van Dinther

Ranking on Google is going to change in 2009

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If you keep an eye on things that are happening on Google, you will find some interesting things going on at this moment. Ranking and Google Changes First I want to point you to two video's from webpronews.com, the first one is an interview with Bruce Clay about this presentation Ranking is Dead where is looks at how Universal search is going to effect your Search Engine Page results. The other one is at the same site, but now an interview with Matt Cutts on some of the Changes … [Read more...]

Monday 24 November 2008 By 21 Comments Filed Under: Search Engine, SEO Tagged With: , , ,
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Learn SEO from Google’s webmasters

If you don't have an RSS feed subscription on the Google Webmaster Central Blog yest, I strongly advice you te get one... On there latest post they included an nice basic SEO Starters Guide from Google which you might want to forward to some of your customers. What better way to educate them then sending them a document produced by the Guys that know Google the best. Af course it is just a basic SEO Guide, but it shows some fine examples of things you need to get done for better … [Read more...]

Thursday 13 November 2008 By 4 Comments Filed Under: Joomla Seo, SEO Tagged With: , ,
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Joomla Duplicate Content and Dynamic URLs – Google’s view

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In the last few days, the Joomla SEO and Bloggers community have been writing a lot about two posts on the Official Webmaster Blog. Two posts, one about Demystifying the "duplicate content penalty" and the other on Dynamic URLs vs. static URLs. From a Joomla webmaster point of view, these items look as if they would turn the world of Joomla SEO upside down... Yes, Joomla can produce multiple URLs that pint to just one content item and Yes, Joomla is a Content Management System … [Read more...]

Wednesday 24 September 2008 By 17 Comments Filed Under: Joomla Seo, SEF, SEO Tagged With: , , ,
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Google Insights use for analysis and upcoming trends

My Google Alert on Joomla SEO just brought me this link to an Google Insights Article that also discussed the use of this new tool in conjunction with the previous mentioned report in Open Source CMS Market shares. What interested me even more was how these figures where on a regional level, so I did some comparisons between Worldwide, USA, UK and the Netherlands. The outcome did somehow surprise me... Below the graphics for the Worldwide search, showing clearly the search for Joomla as … [Read more...]

Thursday 7 August 2008 By Leave a Comment Filed Under: Search Engine, SEO Tagged With: , , , ,
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