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IndexWatch 06/2009 The first half of the year is through and we are on the home stretch towards Christmas. Here we have the latest IndexWatch-numbers for the previous month. As always, we start out with the winners in the Googleindex: Winners This time there are (once again) travel-sites ...

Did Google disown Burda?

Hubert Burda is publicly venting his grievance in the FAZ: Searchengines like Google are “silently disowning” content-producers. His reasoning is as follows: While quality-media (two of Burdas papers are the tabloids Superillu and Glücks-Revue) spend a lot of money to create great content, ...

Keyword-density: relevant SEO-basics or negligible thing of the past?

There are a multitude of different opinions when it comes to keyword-density being a ranking-factor: for some, it's nothing more than a reminder of the early years of this century, where you were able to get far ahead in the Fireball searchengine by simply repeating the keyword numerous times ...

PageRank-update 06/2009

Google is a Diva. It has not been a month since the last update but tonight, Google has already pushed new PageRank-values onto their datacenters. It seems kind of as though they are trying to get back into their “old” monthly rhythm. Those new values should have already arrived at most of the ...

Noodp not through x-robots-header

Usually, this subject would not be worth its own blogpost but it ended up being too long for the few characters allotted by Twitter. A while ago, the large searchengines (reads: „Google“) have opened the possibility of sending crawler-commands not only through a meta-tag but also through the ...