Author Archives: Michael Busch

Article marketing Callen Style

If you have been following my blog for a while you probably know about the products Jon Leger creates for Linkbuilding .
Today I signed up for a new service by Bryxen Software, which you may know for products like SEOElite or KeywordElite.
Now Brad Callen has come up with a new product that at the first [...]

What is more important? Relevance or page load speed?

Recently the signals from google that page load speeds plays a more and more important role as a ranking factor were quite clear.
This lead to quite a few people asking whether page speed might even be more important than relevance.
Well – page speed is one out of more than 200 factors important for ranking.
Listen to [...]

Tap into the keyword potiential of your site

I am often asked how to choose keywords. If you unsure of what keywords could bring more traffic to your site or what you should write about more, then you should determine the potential of keywords that are found on your site, but did not lead to any search engine clicks up to now. If [...]

Test your Webmaster knowledge

You never know too much… but how much do you actually know about running a successful site?
Now there is a pretty fun way to know – take the google webmaster quiz!
The quiz can be found over here:
Google Webmaster Quiz
The Quiz is online from today until Wednesday, January 27 at 5PM PST.

Do-Follow and WordPress 2.7

What a shame!
Now I run a blog that is all about Do-Follow blogs and how to find Do-Follow blogs and I am not able to remove the Nofollow tag on my own blog!
Thanks to a hint from one of my readers, I finally noticed that the links on my blog were actually nofollow – wordpress’ [...]

Improve traffic you already have – analyze your Exit Traffic

The major goal of SEO ist getting more traffic to your website. But is getting more traffic all you need to be successful? Of course not! More often than not you will have a goal on your page, like you want your visitors to opt-in to your list, or download something or buy something from [...]

How to get “Awesome Links”

Getting links is not easy and getting good links is even harder. So what about awesome links?
Rand Fishkin, CEO of SeoMOZ has a wonderful way of explaining, so have fun watching the video below:

SEOmoz Whiteboard Friday – How to Get Awesome Links from Scott Willoughby on Vimeo.

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Link Popularity Pitfalls

Link popularity is an important factor in the promotion of your website. Without it you will find success hard to find. Many entrepreneurs devote a great deal of time, energy and expense into the quest for more links to their website, some gain success while others fail terribly. What are the reasons for this?
The most [...]

You don’t have to buy an office program

One of the improvements I added to the blog finder is that the results are now delivered as xls sheets.
This means you can use the autofilter feature to filter for a certain PageRank, for CommentLuv or KeywordLuv and of course for do-follow blogs or nofollow blogs.
Very short after the launch I got an email:
“Nice service, [...]

CTR vs rankings (about ads above the fold)

Did you read that notice from google, too? “We are adapting our ranking algorithm a bit – it concerns only 1% of all searches, and if you listened to our previous adsense advise you are now screwed” … well, that is not verbatim, but it was something along these lines.
What has happened? Actually not necessarily [...]