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Want SEOs to lose their job? Start doing yours!

yoast.com

by Joost de Valk

December 11, 2012

This morning, an article by Paul Boag was published on Smashing Magazine that got a few SEOs, including myself, all riled up.

As Bill Slawski pointed out in the comments, Paul has written articles on SEO before. Paul, whom I respect tremendously for his web development work, obviously doesn't "get" SEO and has evidently had some bad experiences with the snake oil side of our trade over the years. Luckily he's shown himself to be willing to learn and I hope to be part of that learning experience. But I also wanted to write about this as I think it's important for our industry.

Why and how we sell premium WordPress plugins

yoast.com

by Joost de Valk

November 5, 2012

About 2 months ago I released my first premium plugin for WordPress, my Video SEO plugin. A lot of people have asked me about the how and why of the selling and I thought it'd be a good idea to outline that in a post.

Why sell premium WordPress plugins? Of course we got some backlash for making a plugin available to the world and daring to charge for it. Unfortunately there are still people in the WordPress community who think everything should be free. What they don't understand is that not everything can be free.

Video not showing in search results: why?

yoast.com

by Joost de Valk

November 1, 2012

In helping out people who are using my Video SEO plugin, I'm finding that some sites get "hit" by what I now call the "Not really a video page" effect.

While it's a pretty rare phenomenon I thought it was a good idea to share with the wider community and see what one can do about it. After installing my video SEO plugin there are a few things that can happen, usually after having waited for about a week / two weeks...

WordPress Archive Pages: the tutorial

yoast.com

by Joost de Valk

August 22, 2012

On any bigger site, you'll get archive pages of some sort.

Whether they are taxonomy or category archives, like this SEO category, Custom Post Type archives like this one for our WordPress plugin reviews or my speaking engagements, or even date archives: they all share the same common traits. In WordPress an archive will, by default, consist only of a listing of posts. As these pages will get visited by normal people, that means those visitors are "thrown" upon a page that doesn't try to tell them where they are.

Why relative URLs should be forbidden for web developers

yoast.com

by Joost de Valk

August 17, 2012

Twitter is the website / web service most of us love and sometimes hate, a service that has become an integral part of most of our online identities.

It's one of the services we expect to be there when we Google ourselves or other people. So when you Google yourself and instead of twitter.com, you see a weird result, you think "huh". Then, when you're like me, you try to figure out what caused that and once you figure it, you think "d0h!". You'd think the people at Twitter would know better than to use relative URLs or even worse, a HOST header to determine the domain, resulting in this result when you search for my name...

Please Do Not Call the Police Department When Facebook Is Down

yahoo.com

August 1, 2014

Let this serve as a reminder: If you cannot visit Facebook, do not call the police. Just go to Twitter.

Framed for child porn by a PC virus

Yahoo! Tech

by Jordon Robertson

November 9, 2009

Of all the sinister things that Internet viruses do, this might be the worst: They can make you an unsuspecting collector of child pornography.

Heinous pictures and videos can be deposited on computers by viruses - the malicious programs better known for swiping your credit card numbers. In this twist, it's your reputation that's stolen. Pedophiles can exploit virus-infected PCs to remotely store and view their stash without fear they'll get caught.

NSA Officers Caught Using Domestic Surveillance Program To Spy On Their Lovers!

xrepublic.tv

August 24, 2013

NSA Officers Caught Using Domestic Surveillance Program To Spy On Their Lovers!

NSA Twists Words To Fit Agenda, Cites ZERO Terrorists Intercepted

xrepublic.tv

August 11, 2013

"The National Security Agency is searching the contents of vast amounts of Americans' e-mail and text communications into and out of the country, hunting for people who mention information about foreigners under surveillance.

The N.S.A. is not just intercepting the communications of Americans who are in direct contact with foreigners targeted overseas, a practice that government officials have openly acknowledged. It is also casting a far wider net for people who cite information linked to those foreigners, like a little used e-mail address, according to a senior intelligence official."* Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

"The ABUSE Is That The Govt Is Collecting This In The First Place Without Suspicion Of Wrong Doing!"

xrepublic.tv

August 10, 2013

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