So excited. I found a picture of Mount Chiperone – the name giver of my blog.
The internet is amazing.
Month: June 2011
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Bike tour to Bad Säckingen and back
I cycled over 60 km to Bad Säckingen via an unwanted detour to Liestal, and then on to Rheinfelden, Möhlin, Wallbach, Stein. I cycled back on the German side via Schwörstadt, Grenzach-Wyhlen.
No mountains. A few hills.
I only took a few photos.
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Bike tour Basel to Bad Bellingen and back
A quick blog post to document Monday’s mini tour to Bad Bellingen and back.
I wanted to avoid cycling along the Rhine cos it is so monotonous and boring on the German side (done it before and found it boring). I started ok but somewhere between Märt and Efringen-Kirchen all bicycle path signs took me down to the river. So I ended up on the Rhein-Radweg. On my way back, I took a different route via Istein village.
About 20 km one way. Easy ride.
Some snapshots
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Saint Peter
Some architecture snapshots of a church built in the mid sixties. Unfortunately the door was closed so I’ll have to go back for the glass windows.
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SEO ranking factors
2 resource links – for future reference
from a survey:
keyword is the exact-match root domain
keyword present in the title element/tag
uniqueness of the content on the page
uniqueness of content across the whole site
search volume for the brand/domain
authority of users tweeting links to a page
quantity of unique domains linking to the domain
CTR from Google to the page for the keyword
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Bike tour to Kandern and back
From Basel about 17 km one way.
Via Weil am Rhein, Binzen and Wollbach, along the railway tracks to Kandern.
Easy ride.
Wow, Google Maps now offers a bicycle option in its Get Directions menu. Though not for the route below.
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SEO in the year 2011
I want to write a blog post on SEO. My primary motivation is to learn what the changes are and I learn best by writing my own notes.
Here we go. Some notes on SEO off the top of my head and unsorted:
Panda
Following the Panda release and other algrithmic changes by Google, the net is full of speculation – even to the extent that email newsletters may influence results – a fact that was refuted by Matt Cutts. (Shame on me – I retweeted the link before reading the comments. Note to myself: Read before you retweet. But somehow I fell for the arguments cos it sounds realistic.)
Google offers the following advice on developing high-quality content.
But…
- What about product pages which need to be short and snappy for today’s busy business managers? Quite a challenge to make these original! Cos often folks are looking for reassurance rather than novel content.
- Is a company blog a requirement? Long original articles pointing to short product pages?
After reading the comments I compared search results between Bing and Google. I guess it depends on the search terms but i don’t see Bing results being better than Google just yet.
SEO tools
I’ve got a list of Drupal SEO tools via Volacci and Netnode which I’ll post sometime soon.
And … Here on my WordPress blog I use Yoast’s SEO tool.
But to be honest I enjoy blogging and hiding in full public view. Chiperoni.ch is my knowledge base and my memory lane and my notepad and my diary.
Social SEO
Besides SEO, social media references are gaining importance. And definitely influence my click.
If somebody in my Twitter network recommends a link, it gets my attention. If over 400 people “like” Handmade 2.0’s article on Facebook, I am going to pay more attention.
Referring links
Backlinks from high ranking websites remain important.
I stumbled across this SeoMOZ presentation discussing the full bandwidth of inbound marketing: