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5 things more important than SEO 15 Jul 2011 | 12:41 am
Every now and then I find myself politely turning down SEO consulting offers because I just know that my efforts would do little to achieve the clients’ goals. I will try to list my reasons for this b...
Big Brand Search Engine Spam – Hugo Boss 9 Mar 2011 | 04:48 am
I have already written about the apparent inability of fashion brands to build websites which don’t suck. The German fashion brand Hugo Boss is no exception to this. Instead of ditching their Flash we...
Content Farms in Europe – Will They Be Next? 5 Mar 2011 | 12:29 am
Google launched a major algorithmic change during the last week of February, targeting so called Content Farms. These are sites with the revenue model of creating content cheaply which is later moneti...
A Major Step Towards Improving Google Search Quality 24 Jan 2011 | 11:16 pm
Google’s toolbar PageRank is Evil! I don’t mean it in a clubbing-baby-seals-evil sense, but in that it creates unnecessary confusion and misunderstandings which eventually lead to many incorrect busin...
The Joy Of Stats With Hans Rosling 1 Dec 2010 | 01:10 am
This is by far the most engaging Hans Rosling presentation I’ve seen so far. Created with the help of the BBC, he analysis 200 years of data in 4 minutes using the Gapminder statistical tool on steroi...
Google Place Search And Its Impact On Location Services 29 Oct 2010 | 01:39 am
Yesterday Google announced the launch of Place Search. From now on when Google’s algorithms think you are performing a location specific search you will automatically be shown the Place Search SERP la...
Mixing Flash With Fashion – It’s Soo Last Season 21 Oct 2010 | 10:19 pm
It seems that the more money and fame a company has, the crappier websites it manages to produce. Two major sinners in this area are the fashion and the film industry. Others are restaurants, hotels, ...
Google Instant Search and its impact on SEO 10 Sep 2010 | 08:15 pm
During Tuesday’s major search event in San Francisco Google announced a new search feature called Google Instant which will significantly change the way users search for information on Google Search. ...
Speaking at this year’s SMX in Stockholm 7 Sep 2010 | 11:13 pm
I’m very happy to be invited back to SMX Stockholm this year. It will be the second time I’m attending this conference. Two years ago I spoke at two sessions on Google Universal Search as well as Pers...
5 New Favourite Tracks 23 Aug 2010 | 09:50 pm
I’ve heard a good deal of great new music during the summer so I thought I share some of the best ones. Hope you enjoy! Arcade Fire – Ready To Start (website) Jens Lekman – The End Of The World Is ...
