SEO Blog - Marcus Westberg

Many SEO´s frequently gets spammed by link exchange emails.

One of them (not me) reacted and sent them back this:

THIS IS RIDICULOUS, if anyone send me again, any site for LINKEXCHAGE… i will gonna kick his ass and gonna fuckoff that site ( now don’t ask me, how i gonna fuck off your site )

Once again, my humble request to all. Please remove me from your mail list.

Thanks for understand me.

Haha! well I can agree. Sometimes you get really tired of all these mails… Not to talk about spam comments sent to Wordpress installations. I have left this site untouched for a while and man do I have a lot of cleaning to do now.

Getupdated.com signs Letter of Intent to Buy Florida based Search Engine Optimization Company eTrafficJams. Read more at GetUpdated´s official site.

Recently GetUpdated also opened up an office in London. It was not long since GetUpdated opened an office in Florida and already so much has happened on such a short period of time.

Another event that we (GetUpdated) held was the SEO World Championship where we recently announced the winners. Congratulations to all the winners It was also fun to see that everyone in the top 5 came from completly different parts of the globe. U.S.A, Sweden, India and Portugal were represented among the first.

Other then that I can say that Sweden in general is still like 2 years behind when it comes to SEO compared to the U.S. But more and more swedish SEO talents are popping up and we´re getting closer

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That´s it for now, catch you later!

I noticed today that I was ranked kind of high for the keyphrase SEO blog on Google.com. Not in the top 10 but in place number 13 which is not that bad either considering that I have not been adding links here at all lately.

This is so sweet, I was just wondering what keyword I was going to optimize this blog for… But now I found the answer by searching Google. Actually I got a mail from a guy named Jim Burnett where he gave me a link to his new Intelligent Link Replication Tool. I have to check that one! The info I really needed could not be found on the site I was transfered to when clicking the link.

I am also wondering right now why webmasters are accepting the Dmoz staff´s behavior, you see Dmoz or the web directory a.k.a the Open Directory Project is abusing the Internet so badly becasue beeing listed in DMOZ gives you a great headstart when it comes to SEO. If everyone could get a listing at the ODP it would not be a problem but right now there is an very uneven quality among the DMOZ editors and some editors only accepts sites that they are familiar to etc…

I am sure that the Open Directory Project will die by itself, no one is interested in catalogue like that anymore. Maybe it worked in the 90´s but not anymore I believe.

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….

Here are the latest threads from the SEO forum (www.seoforum.us)

The forum is administrated by Me and my friend Markus Jalmerot and we are planning to promote it a lot

The forum is open for anyone that wants to discuss search engine optimization, if you can spare some time pls visit the search engine optimization forum

I knew I would get in contact with this Black Hat crap sooner or later

Oh! my! God! I tried a black hat method just for fun and I was so impressed of it that I have to write about it here. First of all I would like to point out that I don´t ever do Black Hat SEO myself and nor do I want to promote it any way… But it is a problem for Google therefore it is important to remind you all that it exists and you don´t need to be a computer wizard to make it work.. that´t the most scary part!

So there are a lot of Black Hat techniques out there and the one I got involved with was this “Automatic Content Generation” or as we also call it spamdexing.
Basically what you need is a few programs about 2-4 and some webdesign + SEO skills + a whole lot of domains to store all this crap you get auto generated.
Now the big bad black hatters usually bulk register domains 100-500 at the same time to get a discount…. Your not going to believe this but there is also software for making domain names that matches your also autogenerated keyword list, nothing advanced really all it does is that it adds a hyphen between eventual spaces in keyphrase and also adds a .com or a .net in the end of the keyword.

What amazes me so far is that every single little step is fully automated and made for a huge amount of sites.
Ok next step was the keywords! there are several ways of finding those keywords for example overture sr or wordtracker….. Now the list is complete and next step is the layout and design etc.

What it´s all about is really like white hat seo when it comes to page structure, but then again all is automated! (scary). There are several ways to make good page structure using all you know. For example FEEDS and guess what that is also automated, the software imports a highly related feed from a high ranked site and mixes it into your content… Some other things are included such as PHP commands that calls random quotes etc. Man! there are a lot of other things to but I am not sure if I want to write all of them I just want you to understand what it´s all about. What I am trying to say is after doing all this stuff you have a highly optimized site for the search engines because you form the template + design yourself and if you know SEO pretty good you can make it as perfect as you wish.

So anyway I made all modifications needed to be done and then started to autogenerate my sites, I went for a snack a when I got back I had 21,000 pages all about SEO (which was my selected main keyword) all sites was optimized for specific terms and I thougt well the pages must look like crap now! So i uploaded some of the files + templates and css etc. to my test domain.

The Results of this Black Hat crap

It actually works! all pages where different and with some more modification you would never guess that the site was auto generated. Of course I didn´t spend to much time on this to perfect my templates etc but the general idea about how this works was now clear to me.

What is needed to be done to stop this?

Well you tell me? this is actually a real big problem to the search engines as I see it.
Something needs to be done about this! that is crystal clear but the big question is how to do it?
I am not in to this Black Hat SEO crap myself but I can imagine what the Black Hat Pro´s are up to.
There are much more to be said about this, but hey! I will let someone else find out about the rest of this mess… To messy for me!

Search engine optimization tests

Since I am so addicted to SEO and finding out more about it I have plans on starting a bunch of SEO tests soon.
The plan is to write about it in my Seo N00b blog but have not yet made any plans on exactly what to test…

One thing I am looking for an answer for is if the location of the webhost itself plays a big part in geographical ranking. Sure everyone has something to say about this but no one really knows for sure or has any facts to back up their explanations with..

Most optimal for a website you are trying to optimize would be if everything is related to that specific country you are trying to optimize for….
This was discussed at a swedish SEO forum and this is what I believe:

Where nr1 has the most influence

Ok there we have it! but still to find out how much each one of them is affecting your specific target market is for me at least very interesting….