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Back to San Jose for the SES

I’m back to San Jose, CA for the SES 2008.

The SES in 2005 was the first US search engine conference I’ve been to and now four years later I’m back, still knowing that I will learn and profit from sessions which cover 80% of the stuff I already know.

read why!

Dammit - I broke the RSS Feeds last month

Some weeks ago we had to perform some emergency fixes (thanks damn Trackback spammers) to this blog and with that I broke the RSS feeds completely, redirected readers of the blog to the weblog.cemper.com feed.

Sorry for this.

here are the proper feeds urls again, in case you removed them from your reader.

SEOktoberfest - classy VIP event in Munich

This year we’ll see the first SEOktoberfest. This is going to be a SEO VIP gathering at the time of the real Oktoberfest in München and is being run by Marcus Tandler and Quadszilla

Revisited: Google(.de) passes first link's anchor only

Revisited: Google rates only the first link text

The question if only the first link to a page counts or not has been tested and discussed for quite a while now, and Johannes Beus did test it again with Google.de last monday – showing some VERY interesting results – especially in relation to image links.

NOFOLLOW CSS Class - fake or new way to rip of link buyers?

Years after the NOFOLLOW tag was introduced as a publicly visible tag for links to be ignored

there’s a post about an internal NOFOLLOW class that only Google is able to interpret – per site …

Common Forward Links Tool - get Super-Authority links from sites that have authority back links

The common forward links tool finds those super authorities that a bunch of other authorities or important sites link to.

And you then just go out and get links from those!

It follows an idea I had almost two years ago when MSN introduced their “linkfromdomain” operator and I came up with three great uses for the linkfromdomain command

Matt Cutts confirms: we return(ed) random Pagerank data

I’m here at the SMX Advanced in Seattle, and there’s def a coverage of the show on many blogs out there, but I guess this little juicy nugget of information might be missing on most of them.

Google's Merchant Search - killing insurance, loan and credit card comparison affiliate sites

Now this new merchant search feature by Google is going to scare the hell out of a LOT of people, including several of my own clients.