Category Archives: SEO

The “7-day-long Bing trial”: results

Posted on April 2, 2011 by Dehumanizer

About a week ago, I mentioned that I would be trying out Microsoft’s Bing as my default search engine in my main browser (Firefox 4.0) on my main computer, for at least seven days. So, the week has passed… what … Continue reading →

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AWStats + MRTG search engine referrals script updated

Posted on April 1, 2011 by Dehumanizer

Just a brief note: I’ve just updated my script for graphing referrals from Google, Bing and Yahoo!. I intended it to reset each first day of a month, so one can see whether each month is “better” than the one … Continue reading →

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AWStats tip: removing ‘chromebar’ from search keyphrases

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Dehumanizer

Being still less than a month old, it’s normal that I keep looking at this blog‘s stats quite often, and one of the most interesting bits — especially if you care about SEO — is the top search keyphrases list. … Continue reading →

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More on Google vs. Bing, and the “7-day-long Bing trial”

Posted on March 26, 2011 by Dehumanizer

After my last couple of posts looking at the comparative hits between Google and Bing and investigating the reasons for the huge discrepancy (Bing bringing me a puny 2-3% of Google’s hits), I’m still curious about this subject. So far, … Continue reading →

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Search engine hits: Google vs. Bing (part 2: positions)

Posted on March 25, 2011 by Dehumanizer

In my previous post, Search engine hits: Google vs. Bing (part 1), I showed how three of my sites — a recent US-hosted blog in English, a popular Portugal-hosted forum in Portuguese, and a search engine-weak US-hosted aggregator in English … Continue reading →

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Search engine hits: Google vs. Bing (part 1)

Posted on March 25, 2011 by Dehumanizer

Having been interested in SEO for a long time, one of the things I naturally do is look at how many people are coming from the several search engines. While many people seem to care only about hits from Google, … Continue reading →

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Graphing search engine referrals with AWStats and MRTG

Posted on March 21, 2011 by Dehumanizer

From my previous post, AWStats tip: creating static pages (and why it’s a good idea): for instance, I’m currently using MRTG to plot a graph of Google and Bing referrals, using the AWstats-generated static pages as input So… anyone curious? … Continue reading →

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4 great WordPress plugins

Posted on March 13, 2011 by Dehumanizer

I have been blogging with WordPress since 2004, and during all these years I’ve maintained several blogs; some of them exist to this day, some were eventually shut down, and some “lie dreaming until the stars are right.” I hadn’t … Continue reading →

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The (Eventual) End of SEO?

Posted on March 11, 2011 by Dehumanizer

I’ve just read a thought-provoking article, Has SEO Peaked?, which links to another article called Someday, the sun will set on SEO — and the business of news will be better for it, and I’d like to share my thoughts … Continue reading →

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