SEO Blog - Marcus Westberg

You can never really avoid email spam…
This is what I got today in my mailbox:

I guess it pays to send out email spam otherwise they would not be doing it. How many people actually visits sites like this? Even if I would be interested in the topic I would not click, it´s agains all logic laws…. at least in my world.

The following is a paid review:

Recently Aaron Wall and Andy Hagans released their new get paid to blog idea. The basic idea is very simple, either you get paid for writing a post on your blog or you can choose on what blogs you want your articles to be published. This is a real smart move made by Aaron and Andy because having your business name in a lot of high ranked blogs will surely make things easier for you.
It is good for namebranding as well as SEO so I suggest that you do like me and join the Reviewme.com program

I browsed through the SEO blog section on reviewme.com and found a lot of interesting blogs that you can choose from… My friends Jim, Esteban and Anton already published their blogs their also and I bet many more will do the same.

If you want to have a post in this blog please visit My SEO blog advertiser signup page or you can also choose to publish a post on my high ranked SEO contest site: Carcasherdotcom Seocontest.

That´s it for now, catch you later!

A while ago I started looking for good sites in people´s online bookmarks, I found some very interesting sites about some of my favourite topics.
I started to bookmark stuff myself and now I gathered a list of all my bookmarks all in one place. I am using a lot of different online bookmarks services to see for myself which works best for me. My favourite at the moment is Blogmarks.net since it´s really easy to add new sites via my Firefox toolbar.
If you are looking for inspiration on where you should store your online bookmarks then the list below will help you because you will see it as user and how it looks for those who are looking at your bookmarks.

Here is the list of my bookmark collection:

Blinklist.com
I like this one, easy to manage.

Blogmarks.net
My favourite so far.

Bluedot.us
Another good online bookmark service.

Connectedy.com
+ for easy to browse - for the lack of design feeling.

Connotea.org
Haven´t really explored this one yet, if you like the style then use it

del.icio.us
A true classic! must see and must use. A good thing here is that you can often export your del.icio.us bookmarks to other bookmark sites. In case you feel like switching to something new.

Diigo.com
Kind of a plain design, I like it that way…. easy to view.

Feedmarker.com
Nice design! and easy tag system.

Furl.net
With this one you can rate bookmarks.

Indiamarks.com
Nice and simple design.

Jots.com
Kind of plain design, a little bit boring.

Lookmarks.com
Hmmm… also a bit boring design.

Ma.gnolia.com
Really cool design and also easy to manage. I recommend this one.

Mybookmarks.com
Lol! must be the most boring design ever, but if you like old school then go for it!

Myvmarks.com
Really simple stuff here, Link + URL and that´s it.

Reddit.com
Another one of those plain bookmarks sites.

Simpy.com
Yet another! with simple design. Nothing negative but nothing really positive either.

Spurl.net
Old school structure mixed with some 90´s design mmm sweet!

Supr.c.ilio.us
Supr what? Basic, but for some reason I like this one.

Technorati
Not really ment to be a bookmark service, but adds your favourite blog feeds easy.

Wists.com
This one is cool! For every bookmark you can add an image from that site.

Taggly.com
Superb! very good!

Feedmelinks.com
Make sure you have a big monitor if you are using this one.

Digg dugged
Good to have it reachable since you often wish to revisit some of those sites you forgot to bookmark.

Google notebook
This one I recently discovered and it´s made in a real smart way + you can download plugins to use it with mozilla as well.

Ok that´s it! and I think that is enough… Well now it shouldn´t be to hard to select a bookmark service that suits your needs.

New SEO forum!

Recently me and my partner / friend Markus Jalmerot (also a swedish guy) launched a new search engine optimization forum!.
The url is www.seoforum.us and anyone that is interested in discussions about SEO are very welcome to make a few posts….

The registration process is really simple and will only steal a few minutes of your time….
Since the forum is brand new there are of course some minor bugs to take care of, but it is functional for anyone to use so if you ever want to learn/discuss SEO our forum is the right place to ask the questions.

Our SEO forum also contains some interesting categories such as a marketplace where you can buy, sell and trade links, websites etc…

The forum itself is running on a script called PHPBB which is a very common forum script and so far most of the important settings seem to be playing nicely Of course there is still a lot of SEO to be done, for example more URL rewrites and installing various mods etc….
I just got the rss to work so if you have a RSS reader like Feedreader or something simular you can use this RSS URL (http://www.seoforum.us/rss.php) to get the latest news from our SEO Forum

I also want to mention that we are planning to release some very good posts/stickys about linkbuilding etc
Since we want this forum to be succesful we actually are going to release some really juice stuff about SEO that I at least never have talked about before….

Oh! and don´t forget to tell us what you think about the forum here: Suggestions and feedback on seoforum.us We appreciate every little bit of help we can get on how to make this forum better….

It was a long time ago since I posted in this blog….. To be honest the weather is to good in Sweden to sit indoors right now, and I also started a few new websites which I have to manage….
But! I will get back to this blog in a while… Because there are a few good things going on in the SEO world right now One of them is that I am going to start a SEO forum with a swedish friend but made entirely for /english/american users….

Also! there are some other interesting things to write about when it comes to SEO, so here are a few of the topics that I am interested in and will be writing about this fall….

Coop Ad network - Use it or loose it….
Linkbuilding - How to do it
Black hat SEO - how can it still be easy to spam?
SEO companies - there are a few…..
Adsense - Make money while you optimize

I also bought myself a new music gear the other day, a Line 6 pod 2.0
It is simply an amplifier for electric guitar that makes a lot of sweet sounds….

Picture of my Line 6 pod 2.0

That´s it for now! I will check back here soon again

Ok so now the V7ndotcom Elursrebmem contest is over and I landed on a fifth place
Now it is time to take on the challenge of ranking high in the Carcasherdotcom Seocontest…. This will be pretty hard but there aren´t as much competition as it was in the v7n contest but still there are a lot of good sites around that are competing so it wont be easy to get a place in the top 10…

When you make a search on Google.com for the selected keyword “Carcasherdotcom Seocontest” only 405,000 resluts are shown… seems a bit little if you compare it to the V7ndotcom Elursrebmem contest with 4,440,000 results…

Anyway I have two Carcasherdotcom Seocontest sites, one is located in this blog: Carcasherdotcom Seocontest and the other one I registered a whole new domain for! I managed to get the domain carcasherdotcomseocontest.cc you can take a look at that page here: Carcasherdotcom Seocontest

Another nice thing about this particular contest is that they give away cash prizes each month Let´s hope I can win one of those cash prices later on…..

I checked my referrer stats and I noticed something a bit unusual… A domain wwwdot2000jeep.com is displaying the exact same content as this domain (marcuswestberg.com)

Strange thing here??? I must be some kind of error at Godaddy.com becasue i noticed that “2000jeep.com” is also registered with Godaddy.com… but even more strange is the Whois info which have been changed since the last time I checked… Here is the current Whois info for 2000jeep.com

Whois Record for 2000jeep.com
Page Information
Website Title: Marcus Westberg - SEO blog, Web Developer
Record Type: Domain Name
Meta Description: A blog about V7ndotcom Elursrebmem and Webdevelopment and lots of other stuff …
Meta Keywords: v7ndotcom, elursrebmem, seo
Server Data
Server Type: Apache
(Spry.com also uses Apache)
IP Address: 216.69.141.60 [Whois] [Ping] [DNS Lookup] [Traceroute]
IP Location: United States - Arizona - Scottsdale - Go Daddy Software Inc
Response Code: 200
Blacklist Status: Clear (history)
SSL Cert: No valid SSL on this Host
Website Status: Active

Registry Data
ICANN Registrar: GO DADDY SOFTWARE, INC.
Created: 2004-07-29
Expires: 2006-07-29
Registrar Status: REGISTRAR-LOCK
Whois Server: whois.godaddy.com
Name Server: WSC2.JOMAX.NET
Whois Record

Registrant:
WeWebU
8088 Mitchell Dr
Rohnert Park, California 94928
United States

Registered through: GoDaddy.com
Domain Name: 2000JEEP.COM
Created on: 29-Jul-04
Expires on: 29-Jul-06
Last Updated on: 24-Aug-05

Administrative Contact:
Bailey, Bill Whois Privacy and Spam Prevention by Whois Source
WeWebU
8088 Mitchell Dr
Rohnert Park, California 94928
United States
7076641060 Fax — 8017298300

Technical Contact:
Bailey, Bill Whois Privacy and Spam Prevention by Whois Source
WeWebU
8088 Mitchell Dr
Rohnert Park, California 94928
United States
7076641060 Fax — 8017298300

Domain servers in listed order:
WSC1.JOMAX.NET
WSC2.JOMAX.NET

Last time I checked the whois it displayed “Alexa websites” as site owner! ?? whatever! Just make it stop ok!

no more 2000 jeep ok?

As always I am a bit curious so I also checked what Google´s cache had to say about the 2000 Jeep domain and this was what I got:

What a guy!

John Scott from V7n.com has now announced the winners for the V7ndotcom Elursrebmem SEO contest.

The official thread: V7n.com winner announcements

Here is the official list:

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www.watching-paint-dry.com/v7ndotcom-elursrebmem/ - 38k - Cached - Similar pages

V7ndotcom Elursrebmem by Marcus Westberg v7ndotcom elursrebmem infoThis V7ndotcom Elursrebmem page is supported by Jim Westergren 2 weeks to go! and still lot of v7ndotcom Elursrebmem Excitment! …
www.marcuswestberg.com/v7ndotcom-elursrebmem/ - 66k - 13 May 2006 - Cached - Similar pages

v7ndotcom elursrebmem - Link Exchange - Add Url To v7ndotcom …MaxLinks - Web directory - v7ndotcom elursrebmem | Seo Friendly Web Directory - quality links on the internet.
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V7ndotcom Elursrebmem - Transformers Robots in Disguise …Transformers resource site with downloadable multimedia including video, sounds and images. Chat, info, web links and Transformers - Robots in Disguise!
www.thetransformers.net/ - 47k - Cached - Similar pages

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This is the biggest SEO contest ever and I must say that I am very happy to get a 5´th place
Congratulations to all winners!

Follow the contest thread on DP forums about the contest and see what the contestans have to say: DP v7ndotcom Elursrebmem thread