Recent content by BooHoo

The big SEO tools like Sistrix or Searchmetrics offer desktop and mobile rankings. But be aware that there'll always be some difference. Every Google query gets different results, based on your search history and especially based on your location, detected by your IP location. A lot of plain...

Here's how the hreflang tags look like: <link rel="alternate" hreflang="es" href="http://es.example.com/page-1" /> <link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="http://www.example.com/page-1" /> <link rel="alternate" hreflang="x-default" href="http://www.example.com/page-1" /> (The forum software...

Your URL structure should reflect the languages you're using. You can have one of these structures: www.example.com/en/, www.example.com/es/ www.example.com, es.example.com example.com, example.es Then, you should "interlink" your pages with the hreflang attribute of the link tag. Assuming, you...

I think Poker Rakeback Mafia referred to some kind of extreme PageRank sculpting. The idea of PR sculpting has been to drive all you link juice to the pages you want or need your link power. So, the idea is – if I got it right – to prevent Google from sending link juice to your subpages, so that...

Short Update Working hard on my plan: all of the outdated content is now rewritten redirects are implemented (you can't imagine how many redirects I had to implement) Twitter account started FB ready to get renamed reflecting the new domain name Will do the relaunch this weekend. I cant't...

Oops. I somehow must have changed the text color from default to black. As I'm using the bright color scheme with the gray background everything looked perfect to me. I changed the text color back to default, it should be readable now. Please excuse that mistake.

No, I don't build backlinks to the commercial posts. I've got some informational posts that are getting backlinks on its own, without doing active link building. I hate active link building and my strategy is that the unsolicited backlinks for the informational posts are helping to improve the...

The Site I've got a real german authority site running on Wordpress; a site that is older than ten years, has plenty of purely organic backlinks and ranks well for its content. With "real authority site" I mean it's a site people are referring to when they are looking for advice. And because of...

*** Updates **** My article addressing the 390 monthly local searches commercial KW climbed from about 50 to 34. Without having time to publish new content, the rankings are improving extremely slow. My other commercial post (170 local searches) entered page 1 this week and now ranks on #6. I...

This is a learning project for me. Having done so much consulting, my doing skills have been really poor lately. If I get to 100?/month with this site I know how to scale things up and I'll do it. So, yes, SEO is my only way to get traffic so far. I try to read and learn a lot about other...

Helln000: I have to admit I never read a book about SEO or IM. I started SEO so long ago, the only sources then were forums like this one, doing experiments and observing what others do. Having now a plethora of blogs, books and forum discussions I understand you're overwhelmed by a lot of...

The site is slowly moving forward. It averages about less than one Amazon click per day, but the first two orders have been made now. Links are set continuously and completely unsolicited. Ranking on #2 for an important informational query really attracts a lot of links. That query has a monthly...

Due to some heavy work, I didn't publish new articles on my niche site. The article mentioned in the last post ranks on page 2. Obviously, Google sees my site as a valid source for information about the niche, but competition is too strong to enter page 1 immediately.

Today I posted another 500+ post for a highly commercial LTK with just 170 local searches and 55 allintitle results. Some of these results are on well established blogs within my niche, so ranking will be harder than the numbers would suggest. I'm curious to see where it'll rank. As I said, this...

Just some quick notes: Google already indexed my new article and rankings for it climbed from 68 to 49. Not much, but it's a start. I lost two days of Google Analytics data, because I made a mistake while updating my Analytics tracking code. :-/ All Adsense ads have been removed. Next steps...