What Bing Tells Us About Keyword Research And Link Building

Bing Webmaster Blog has recently published an article on the topic of keyword research where they also mention other SEO topics and mention how to go about link building.

Since all search engines try to avoid manipulation of their rankings they also avoid telling you exactly what you need to do – but they do give good hints which you need to interpret correctly.

I’ve taken some of the more interesting and important hints from the above article and tried to interpret them (when needed) in my own way. Read more

USA Trip – September 2011

I am planning a trip to the US Open tennis tournament at the end of August and will be staying in the USA for the most of September.

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If you’d like to meet, share a pizza and a beer – let me know!

I’ll be in NYC and have time to meet from 5th to 9th of September.

Then I am off to Milwaukee where I’ll stay a day or two. Read more

Design Contest Websites – Best Way To Outsource Design?

In my quest to find the best way to outsource design, I’ve recently tried a few design contest websites.

The difference and the key advantage of design contest websites and the usual outsourcing through freelancer.com or elance.com is that you get multiple designs to choose from.

When you’re using the freelancer, you choose one of the providers based on their portfolio – but you cannot really know if they will »guess« what you had in mind for your site design.

With a design contest website, you’ll get multiple designs (logo, website, wordpress theme, …) and you can ask every provider to tweak their design until you like it or you can simply ignore and dismiss the ones you don’t like and eventually choose the best one. Read more