PubCon 2008 Las Vegas – another week full of networking, partying and some interesting sessions has ended.

This was the fifth time I was here in Vegas, and it only gets better every time.

.EDU links have been hot for a while now, but today we are looking into the big UK universities - thanks to the trusted links they have getting links from .ac.uk domains is something you should look into. Read why!

Once again Yahoo has changed it's Site Explorer interface, breaking all sorts of overlay tools like SEOquake, SEO4FF and various greasemonkey scripts and of course data scrapers that we and fellow SEOs use...

THE Domain Research Tool was already great in March 2006 but has been constantly improved since. Now it’s available at a very special price thru me!

Short recap of my SES San Jose 2008 visit

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!

Some nice posts I want to point you to

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.

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 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.