2008
Merry Christmas
Even though barely on time, thanks to the time difference, I would like to use this opportunity to wish everyone a merry...
PageRank-Update 11/2008
It was just yesterday, that I wrote it was about time and Google has promptly delivered the PageRank-Update. At the moment,...
Lycos is closing its doors
With Lycos, we have a former Internet-heavyweight that is stepping down for good. While being the biggest European Internet-portal...
Jerry Yang leaves Yahoo
Yang is drawing the consequences from his failed gamble in the takeover poker between Microsoft and Yahoo and is stepping...
SISTRIX toolbox
These have been the promised module presentations. In the comments I have already suggested that the access to those modules...
Distribution of Google Analytics/ AdSense
A posting on Seo-Scene.de led me to an article by Mario Fischer about Google Analytics and privacy. In essence its about...
Google knows more than 1.000.000.000.000 pages
It has been a while since Google and Yahoo had their regular dickcomparisons over index size. At a certain point, it seems,...
Revisited: Google assesses only the first linktext
A few weeks ago I wrote about how Google only assesses the first linktext if there are more than one link to a second site...
The Googlebot gets a breather
While the Googlebot has taken new sites into the index rather quickly over the last few month, it has diminished its ambition...
Microsoft buys Powerset
After the takeover rumor gained momentum over the last few days it is now official: Microsoft is purchasing the searchengine-startup...
IndexWatch 06/2008
The month is over already, time to take a look at last month’s Googleindex winners and losers: Winners The month is...
Interview with Idealo’s Martin Sinner
I was able to ask Martin Sinner from the price-comparison site Idealo a few questions centering arround SEO and the price-comparison...
IndexWatch 04/2008
A few month ago I blogged a chart containing the domains that our data showed were the most visible in the German Googleindex....
Monoculture
A contribution in the Google-Webmaster-Groups has occasioned me to again ponder how dangerous an extremely one sided focus...
Google PageRank update 04/2008
It seems as though Google is updating the PageRank-display of the Google-Toolbar. On data-center 72.14.255.99 I can see a...
SEO-regulars-table Bonn
Since the first regulars’ table in Bonn has proven to be quite popular and some attendees, including myself, are interested...
Google PageRank Update 02/2008
I am currently seeing new PageRank-values on the servers from the net of 72.14.255.*. Surprisingly quick after the last update...
Abakus PubCon & SEMSEO 2008
Alan is opening the doors to the yearly SEO-classreunion, the by-now-legendary PubCon in Hannover on April 24th. Just like...
popular SEO-fallacies
These small know-it-all-booklets with party-lore about the most popular fallacies are time and time again found on magazins...
Google PageRank Update 01/2008
While Google made us wait ages for the last update, it seems that yesterday night, after only 78 days, new and updated values...