Willy Dobbe - search-engines

Promote Drupal On Google

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 14:57:28 +0100

Now you can make the results of Google queries more or less "personalized" via a "promote" and "remove" icon, you might want to help keep Drupal on op. It is already one of the best CMS-es codewise, for sure the best CMS communitywise, and now lets strengthen our position in Google by "en masse" promoting Drupal (with keywords like Drupal and CMS). Only 13 people have done this so far, lets make this a 1000!

Note: Google claims that your actions will not influence other peoples results, but I can not imagine that Google will not use all the rich meta data that users add to the results.

Google's Birthday and Drupal

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:14:44 +0200

It seems that Google is -more or less- 10 years old. To celebrate this, they have a timeline (more on that later ) and a project to do good; 10^100. Drupal.org was just around the corner, I registerd it in later 2001 it seems:
krokodil-boerland-home:~ bert$ whois drupal.org | grep -i created Created On:26-Apr-2001 11:42:11 UTC

But the real drupal site was drop.org (after "dorp" -village in Dutch- as the myth goes) and it 2001 it looked like this. Yes we needed a redesign back then as well

Google also has the Search 2001 site up, where you can -ego- surf and find results from 2001. Try drupal, the results are from January 2001. The first hit is an article on the PHPNuke site. Yek... I actually used that before switching to Drupal in those days. 5 pages of Drupal hits, 5! And most of them porn. Now you will find a lot more and more relevant hits (Results 1 - 10 of about 22,100,000 for drupal).

Looking back is fun. Some things you can laugh at retrospective, some things you can learn from. For example, the mission statement at that time was:
To develop a leading edge open-source content management system that implements the latest thinking in community publishing, knowledge management, and software design. We value flexibility, simplicity, and utility in our product; teamwork, innovation, and openness in our community; and modularity, extensibility and maintainability in our code.

Long as it might be, it was exact to the point and right, better then our mission. And I hereby plea to let it be our mission again!

DrupalCon, planes, URL's, 10% and everything

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:50:48 +0200

This story start with a one dollar bill I found the last day during the DrupalCon Szeged 2008.

A dollar, I thought! This must be my lucky day! So I took it with me and decided it was my lucky Dollar. Little did I know.

We took the train from Szeged to Budapest at 10 a clock, 2 hours later we were at the airport and went for a small snack. We had plenty of time, yet - I am not going in details here - it was very frustrating to see the plane leave, to see the gate getting closed, with you at the wrong side of it. It became a very expensive snack, a bit more then a dollar.

We tried to get the next plane towards Amsterdam, it was fully booked. The next one was overbooked. So we got a flight to Vienna and then to Amsterdam. After checking in, going through customs again, waiting 2 hours, we found out it was cancelled. We got rerouted towards Muchen and then to Amsterdam. After 3 hours waiting the plane actually left the ground, one hour late. We missed our connection to Amsterdam and slept at an 4 star hotel nearby. Not that we enjoyed the hotel because we had to get up at 5 AM to catch the next flight. Only to find out ...

...it was cancelled. 28 hours after we left Szeged, we were at home. Most west coast Americans attending the DrupalCon were probably already in bed. It thought me however a couple of lessons. One of them I wanted to share. There was no single airline that was responsible for the chain of events or knew about it. Sabre

(the independent computer network that all airlines use) is great, they can realtime reroute any passenger over any airline towards any destination. Yet, it is not in use a trouble-ticketing system, airline B knew nothing about my history and when failing to deliver they happily transferred me to airline C. Nobody saw my complete chain of events, from A-Z.

This is a lesson I need to pickup; whenever you fail to deliver a service to a customer, try to place it in the chain of events the customer already experienced. It will not make the delivery better, but you will understand the feelings of the customer better.

Now regarding DrupalCon. Here is a small update. I really REALLY liked the conference. I talked to lots of people, attended more sessions then I planned, got active in a couple of BoF's and co-presented one with Larry and Dries. So here is a small update on stuff I found.

It is great to see that the -on the spot during DrupalCon Barcelona- made up number of 7% female is broken!

With 10% of XX chromosomes during the Con we do represent the number of females on Drupal.org versus the number of males. Sure, it should have been 50%, but as the great Rop Gonggrijp once said, if you are female and want to become a computer geek, you better start electrocuting your Barby when you were 5 years old. And not many girls do so hence the ICT sector could use some more females. With webchick being the co-maintainer of D7, the Open Source community also shows there is no glass ceiling for females.

But hold on, we might have hit 10% XX chromosomes, but can you see what is wrong with this picture?

10% female, but 99,9% white! I am not the pro-positive discriminating kind of person. But I think I saw 1 (one!) black person during the complete conference. If you want to break barriers, we really should look at this as well. 90% of all people active in Drupal are white males, 10% white females. So, lets make sure that the next DrupalCon will be more representative for the population using Drupal! After all, Open Source is there as the big equaliser; there are no secrets (only information that you dont have).

Some other thoughts on the DrupalCon. I really like the talk of Mark Boulton who will be doing the redesign of "d.org", see the video on the Association site. A right balance of humour and content can be very powerful. I loved the story Mark and Leisa Reichelt
pulled together. Leisa is however (see the video) very wrong on one part. And it is a classic mistake to make showing there is still a big gap between designers of code and UI.

Leisa claims that she was amazed to see that most experienced Drupal users typed the URL on drupal.org instead of navigating through the site with a mouse. Now, I am not claiming that the UI of Drupal.org is good, not at all. Mark and Leisa have lots of work to do to make it better navigable and we -as the community- a lot to keep it clean by having some kind of styleguide on how to address the user and a better policy on how and when to promote a story to the frontpage (if there is going to be a frontpage in the classical sense after the redesign).

However, graphical designers only look on how to navigate through a site within the site, this since they are CMS agnostic. What they do not count as usability is the browser chrome, you do not control it as a website and you do not need to emulate the browsers functions. However there is one small part of the browsers chrome that is related to usability; the address bar! It is used by the person on the site just as much as the mouse is, it infleunces the page and hence is part of usability. The fact that graphical designers -and this is not to bash Leisa in any way- do not think of it as usability only shows there is still a huge gap to be bridged between code and design monkeys. The address bar is part of usability and the fact that the functionality of a site is reflected in useful predictable URL's like /node/add shows this. We all have to learn here to help the user navigate what is best for him or her and we should be aware that most some people type faster then they can click: bofhmode]" The world's only useful point and click interface is a .44 Magnum" [/bofhmode].

BTW: someone wants a dollar? Free shiping!

DrupalConSzeged2008 piped

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:04:01 +0200

Today I had some time to arrange a ticket and an hotel for the DrupalCon Szegged 2008, pftttt! Just in time. Then I had some time to nerd around so I created a Y! pipe for All Things DrupalConSzeged2008 related (assuming that that would be the tag?). Feel free to run, edit, copy, change my pipe over at pipes, Yahoo! ID !required! You can see geolocated Flickr images, tweets, delicious links and much more in many formats (for example an RSS feed. feedback in the comments please, I'll update the pipe to reflect your thoughts.

And yes, that is the reason I do not program, even the pipe! looks bad and is not that smart build

When webpages become webapplications... the influence on statistics.

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 03:07:46 +0200

When web pages become web applications. Then page reloads are history and you interact with your webapplicationin your browser in the page and with AJAX/AHAH you will get the data in and out of the page. Nothing new, that is what the marketeers label web 2.0.

But when users interact with pages without having to reload ... when pages become application .. this also means that traditional ways of measuring user activity that are hosted and used as a service, such as Google Analytics, will not be able to tell you what a user has done on a ~~page~~application.

There used to be a time when the success of a website was measured in "hits", way back in the nineties. Then -due to the fact webpages consisted of many HTML elements like Cascading Style Sheets- the success was measured in pageviews. For the last couple of years, the success is measured in unique visitors since advertisers are not that interested in serving the same ad for the 10th times to the same person. And now, due to AJAX, we have to find a new way of measuring the success of webapplication.

Yahoo! understands this and has been offering Yahoo! User Interface services for some time now for free that can be used by a webmaster to give a more rich feeling towards the user. This way, Yahoo still gets to see who is doing what on a website and can offer this as a Analytics competitor as well as use the data for having a better advertising offering with behavioral targeting. The downside is however that to make your pages application, you do more then some icing on the cake; User Interface gadgets are nice. But the real deal is in enriching your data for webapplication use, not just your user interface.

AJAX-As-A-Service (as a new way of Server Based Computing) suffers the same problems as the old way of doing Server based Computing like Citrix has; looking to the world through a straw. Local data and terminal screens from remote do not mix well; a document that is saved on a local harddisk and accessed via a terminal service application still need lots of bandwidth and leads to high latency. The same kind of poblems you encounter when you use hosted AJAX service that are not integrated with your site; the (meta)data of the user is on the webserver and the AJAX application is served from another webserver not able to access all rich metadata.

Therefor only websites that are based on a Content Management Systems that is old will use these kind of services, modern CMS-es like Drupal ship with their own plug-able extend-able AJAX library. And if that CMS enables you to turn a web-page into a webapplication, you have two options to have the right statistics based on the right data; logging from the CMS or raw logging from your website. Drupal never has been good in providing logging analyses; it is good for technical webmasters but the analyses is not usefull at all for marketeers and managers. Analysing raw logging yourself is IMHO still the best way; you also get to see those firefox users that block urchin or have the best firefox plugin aivalble installed. However, it takes time and most of the reporting is by far not as fancy as Google Analytics.

So we will see how AJAX will influence web-analytics, maybe CMS-es will provide better statistics?

Bert Boerland is moving towards Dutch Open Projects (DOP.nu)

Sun, 03 Feb 2008 20:31:03 +0100

The short story:
I will join Dutch Open Projects, DOP.nu. A 20 person PHP shop that offers SugarCRM, Joomla!, Symphony, Zend … and Drupal in the Netherlands!

The long story:
I started working in 1996 at PinkElephant, a student founded IT company in the Netherlands, hence the name. My first job was as a contractor to help out at one of the Global Network Management Centre’s of AT&T in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. I think my first GNU/Linux slackware installs date back from that time. I learned a lot about Unixes, Cisco’s IOS, TCP/IP and managing firewalls. Remember that back in the mid 90-ies, the concept of "firewalls" was still catching on, it was for sure not a widespread best practice. I even remembered a funny trick back then, SGI (for the youngsters, think a hip machine like a Mac) was still a widespread used Unix and running many websites. You could use telnet (yes, unencrypted telnet!) towards such a box and login as the line printer daemon (lpt) that had default no password and a shell! All you had to do was use your favorite search engine, atltavista back in those days, and "google" for "powered by SGI" and you were in.

After my contract at AT&T, I worked internally at Pink’s emerging internet division. However, there was not much internet there, mostly managing Novell boxes. I disliked office automation in general and Novell in particularly so while I liked the young creative people, I went over to UniSource somewhere around 1998. Unisource was part of KPN. KPN just made the shift of a governmental owned telecom provider that had a monopoly on landlines towards a "commercial" company and UniSource was the datacommunication’s department. We managed dial in connections for nearly all ISP’s, managed the backbone of the Internet in the Netherlands. Like all providers UniSource was building a new network and when we rolled the network out, AS21286 was the fastest internetwork cloud in the world, using Packet over Sonnet with 2.5 Gbs per second in the core over Cisco 12016’s. Such a record was in those days beaten in a week, since everybody was rolling out "the new network". While I was in the networking team, the Unix team was only 5 meters away and I learned a lot about for example scaling transparent proxy’s as well.

Around 2000 I rejoined PinkElephant again, now part of Roccade and called PinkRoccade. I designed the new Internet infrastructure for them and was project lead for implementing it. I created a new AS and made the internet connections resilient via BGP4 and two independent upstream providers. After implementing this, my chief was smart enough to make me the manager of the network group and the Unix group. While I started managing the groups existed of only a dozen people, one year later I managed 30 people. During this time, around 2000/2001 I played around with PHPnuke and very soon after I stopped using that spaghetti code, I came across the drop.org website. Ever since that moment, I am more or less "active" in the Drupal community as a non coder. I had several functions after that moment, lead architect for a huge (20k plus seats) Server Based Computing environment, overpaid Business Consultant, speaker and for example active in (pre)sales. And during all these functions, I kept aligned to Drupal but never did anything with it professionally. I tried multiple times to introduce Drupal in my company and some customers. But the timing was wrong and the tool didn’t fit my employer at that time, who is one of the biggest Microsoft implementers in the world.

A year or so ago, I was fed up with my employer. I will not go in to details about why I wanted to leave the company since that would be very unprofessional but two things were most important and I would like to point out. PinkRoccade was bought by Getronics and Getronics lacks any kind of vision; the people in charge are basically there because of a bet gone wrong I presume since they must have been one of the most empty heads I ever met. I like to think / act that all people I meet are smarter then me but that was not the case at all when I spend some time at the headquarters of Getronics. The other reason is that the lack of vision of Getronics shows most when it comes to the IT; they focus completely on Office Automation, the desktop and hence on Microsoft products. In a world that is changing to services instead of clients, de jeure standards in stead of de facto standards and open instead of close, a wrong vision were I don’t want o be part of anymore. Luckily my network (see linkedin is after more then a decade in ICT with lots of contacts with customers and vendors good and –not to brag- I get a call from a headhunter every week or so. So when a small company that is implementing exclusively Open Source solutions came across my path, I decided to go there; I am joining Dutch Open Projects (dop.nu)! Nu btw is "now" in Dutch so it was a popular TLD some years ago in the Netherlands.

DOP is a 20+ person company, specialized in PHP. We do frontend (Joomla!, Drupal), midoffice (Drupal, Zend) and backend (SugarCRM, Symphony) implementations. I will be evangelizing Drupal for customers, working on sales, doing consultancy and leading projects. And hopefully, have a good time.

I always worked for employers with a couple of thousands employees, PinkElephant 1.500, PinkRoccade 10k, Getronics-PinkRoccade 20k and now Getronics-PinkRoccade is part of KPN that has some 30k employees. I am really looking forward to working over at DOP with only 20 people. No more making business plans in powerpoint (we use OO.org and don’t plan that way) but doing and making business in a more agile.

Now –after some 6 or 7 years of helping the community- it will sure be different to make money with Drupal. I hope that I will be able to keep the same independent attitude I had in the past as a Permanent Member of the Drupal Association. Please correct me anytime in the future if you think that I am mixing the community and business, slap me, hit me and correct me. I need you to do that. Ooh, and thanks to all of you who SMS-ed me, send me postcards and mail to congratulate me. I really appreciated that. And I sure will miss my nice colleagues over at Getronics-PinkRoccade, Dr John and Alessio to name two.

I was planning on making a videocast but the amount of post production was too much, kudos to everyone investing so much time in them!

Downloadgeneratie 2.0

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:21:27 +0100

Frankmeeuwsen zei dat hij een stukje van de NRC over "downloadgeneratie" in een keer kon vinden in google als eerste hit op twitter:

rechtsmenuklikt op "downloadgeneratie">search google>eerste hit>pats raak. Ongelooflijk...

ging ik de uitdaging aan.

aan de hand van iemand die gisteren googlede naar downloadgeneratie

en poste zelf een stuk over de downloadgeneratie op mijn site.

Zou ik het winnen? Zou ik met mijn blog entry boven die van de NRC komen? Drupal -het CMS onder deze site- is super SEO dus na een dag stond ik al op de 4de plaats. En vandaag even kijken en wat blijkt? Op google.COM sta ik nu op nummer 1. Eet je hart uit NRC en het CMS dat er onder ligt.

En de title? Downloadgeneratie 2.0? Wel dat is een mooie naam die de huidige download generatie aan de volgende generatie kan geven. Een download generatie die niet enkel download maar ook weet wat de juridische gevolgen zijn, gebruik maakt van torrents maar wel CC licenties in acht neemt. Maar dat is voor later.

Yahoo! using! OpenID!

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:48:04 +0100

Fresh from the wire

Yahoo! Inc. , a leading global Internet company, today announced its support for the OpenID 2.0 digital identity framework for all 248 million active registered Yahoo! users worldwide. OpenID, an open framework based on proven Internet technologies, enables users to consolidate their Internet identity, eliminating the need to create separate IDs and logins at all of the various websites, blogs, and profile pages they may visit in the course of their online session.

This is big. It means nearly 250.000.000 people have an OpenID account and Identity Management online just gained enourmously. For those who dont know what OpenID is, check http://openid.net/. Basically, it is one online profile so you can you use your profile on every site (that supports OpenID). Thereby the user has Single Sign On (or at least one identity), the Identity Service Provider gets lots of meta data and the site that is OpenID enabled gets a user that is not cyberdude67 but someone who takes care of his or her profile and is not some lame GeenStijl ass.

Drupal events geo-mapped via Y! Pipes

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 23:28:20 +0100

I have been playing lately with Yahoo! pipes again and they really made the project a lot better. With just three boxes I was able to get the ical feed from groups.drupal.org (agenda) and map it on the earth. If you have a Y! ID, go to drupal events on pipes and see where the Drupal event action is right now (even on Google earth with the KML export).

Too bad I do not have a Google Mashup account yet otherwise I could easy turn this GeoRSS in an embeddable map combining Google maps and Yahoo! Pipes

Amazon owns all your URL's (and the US patent office is full with idiots)

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:59:24 +0200

Amazon (apart from having cool services such as EC2 and S3) is known for it's infamous patents. And the patent office in the US known for having idiots as employees. A great combination! After their "one click shopping" patent, now A9 (amazons's search engine) claims their fame by patenting a String at End of a URL. Prior what? Something Drupal does -in combination with some mod rewrite voodoo- for ages.

Amazon search subsidiary A9.com was awarded U.S. patent no. 7,287,042 for 'including a search string at the end of a URL without any special formatting.'

And it is new according to Amazon, because:

Description of the Related Art
...
Some search engine sites support the ability for a user to submit a search query by encoding the search string within a URL (Uniform Resource Locator). Typically, however, the user must encode the search string in the URL using special formatting that is inconvenient or unnatural for users to type. For example, in some cases, users must add a special string such as "query=" to indicate that a search is being requested, and/or must add special characters to the search string itself. As one example, the URL www.google.com/search?q=mars%20rover may be used to the search for "mars rover."

Now it is clear that Amazon doesn't get a way with this and the moment they would sue a Drupal site that can do this like Drupal.org the complete blogosphere and OSS community would be against Amazon making them the paria that SCO has become. Yet, there will be a time -I think within the next 20 month or so- that Drupal.org, Dries, the hosting party or the Drupal Association will get sued over a patent. That's why we -not just Drupal but the complete Open Source community- have to get organized and be prepared for such a slaughter. That's why there is work under way from Dries and the Association to be prepared. And you can help the association. By donating time or money. Please do!

Old Skool SEO

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 21:18:48 +0200

Over at searchnewz.com you can find "10 things about SEO. What is it with the .Digg generation? Is David letterman to blame for this? Why does every site wants to post a "12 firefox extensions you cant do without" posting? And why is Digg (the masses) full with this? Can they youngest under you not read more then 12 lines, unless it is 13 wordpress addons?

Either way, 10 "SEO tricks". mostly well known and hence needed for your site but not discriminating anymore and hence not SEO anymore.

Read number 7

7.) Dont use the default file names and hierarchical structures in Wordpress / Joomla / Drupal / or any other Content Management system. For example, is 2007 a good Category heading, or directory name? Its out of date in a few months time! Still, its not uncommon to see sites based on silly, out-of-date directory/file name combinations.

First of all ALL cms-es that are worth looking at, dont have a filesystem and hance dont use directories. All content is from a database and the URL structure might be used to reflect the taxonomy structure as is the case with Drupal where you could have // kind of alliasses.

Second, if 2007 is a valid taxonomy item (for example a picture you made in 2007( then it is fine to have this in a URL, it is additional metadata end hence should be give to people and Search Engines.

Funny detail? Look at theu URL of the post:

topstory/news/sn-2-20070911DoYOURFileNamesStink.html

Why the topstories? Is it? Also in 2 years time? Why the news, will it be news in 10 days (or even, is it news today?). Then the redundant sn-2-... Why? Is that SEO? And the trailing ".html". Now that would be a great 11th point of yesterdays SEO tips, drop the .php, .asp, .jsp or .html suffixes.

Stop the Google Fan!

Thu, 16 Aug 2007 03:17:49 +0200

With all the Google Street View sightings floating around the net, it is time to stop the Google Van (see also googlevan.com/) that takes these snaps from entering our private rooms! Luckily there is an easy way, just print the text from this sign and put the robots.txt on a spot where it can be seen from the street.

Playmobil and Lego, just good friends?

Sun, 22 Jul 2007 21:23:33 +0200

Mea culpa, I was wrong in my previous blog entry about Joomla! (the site) being down in pageranking from 9 to 7. I was looking at joomla.org where www.joomla.org still has a Google pageranking of 9. I was wrong, mea culpa and thanks for putting me straight. Maxima culpa.

But I wasn’t wrong in a bad way. I know that "you will not get bigger by belittling others" and I was not bashing Joomla! I think they make a fine CMS and we (the Drupal community) can learn a lot from them when it comes to ease of use and install as well as how to market a product. On the other hand, Joomla has a lot to learn when it comes down to scalability (only three roles, very limited taxonomy, no AJAX in core) and most of all understanding the GPL. So I wasn’t bashing Joomla!

In fact, Joomla is a fine CMS and for certain kind of problems the solution. I often compare it with Playmobil vs Lego. When you were a kid, you could play with Playmobil or Lego. With Playmobil, you open the box, put the puppet behind a counter and there you have a flower shop up and running you could play with. Where on the other hand if you would open a box of Lego, you had to draw a plan, put the bricks on top of each other, tear them down, redo your plan and then rebuild the shop, dinosaur, boat, bank or whatever you come up with. And that is the difference between Joomla! and Drupal. Joomla! is good at delivering fast, Drupal is good at building what you want. This comes at a price and if you have a simple business need, Joomla might be a good fit. If you have a more complex business requirement and the resources to create the solution for your need, Drupal is the way to go.

And I was not wrong in a way that I or others could have foreseen. I think it is strange that a FQDN with WWW and without WWW with the same IP address and the same content, could differ so much in pageranking as www.joomla.org (9) and joomla.org (7) do. Google should have fixed that. Still, it is only pageranking, people don’t contribute or download for pagerankings but because of their itch. So we should create a search engine called Itchy.com with itchranking for Open Source Software products! Then people can see the light (thanks Jamy, I smoke and see way to much lights.)

While we are on the subject of (not) bashing other projects Infoworld has a rather bad article on why Open Source projects should target their commercial counterparts. Stupid? Yes! If you run an Open Source project or company, you should listen to your users, your own needs and your peers. But you shouldn’t talk about your peers in a bad way, independent if this peer is commercial (read: proprietary) or Open Source.

The obvious right answer is you target the big market. Who does Zimbra target? Exchange, not Open-Exchange. Who does Alfresco target? Documentum and Microsoft Sharepoint, not Drupal. Who does JBoss target? BEA and Oracle, not Jonas (or Tomcat or whatever.)

If an Open Source project plays the game this way, it will end up using the same dirt throwing, FUD spreading and nonsense talk as most proprietary products do. And worst of all, they will loose since Open Source projects do not offer trips to Norway or Redmond and don’t give away goodies like Xboxes or iPOD’s.

And they shouldn’t. Open Source projects should give away freedom and quality code reviewed by many eyes. Two things proprietary products can never do. And by sticking to this way of playing the game, proprietary software can never catch-up nor catch Open Source counterparts. Mind you, I am fine with proprietary software, my last name is Boerland not Stallman.

BTW: It is time that IBM hooks (hmmm, we don’t have an IBM-hook in core yet) up with Dries since this comment on their site is strange:

Between Drupal and Joomla! - I can only say that Joomla! has a better name, nicer and more colorful logo and a project manager well tunned with the open mind wing of the Open Source movement.

It doesn’t say so per se, but you could read this as "Joomla!’s has a better name, a better logo and Joomla!’s project lead is more tunned in the Open Source movement".

Ooooh, and congrats to the Joomla community for shipping a RC for 1.5. Now, enough Joomla! plugs from me for one day.

Back to my usual self: "Gee, Brain. What are we going to do tonight?" ...

De volkskrant, SEO en het gebruik van META tags

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 21:47:41 +0200

De volkskrant.nl probeert van alles te doen om te scoren in search engines. Kijk eens naar de source.:

<meta name="KEYWORDS" content="de volkskrant, nieuws, kranten, actualiteiten, nieuwsarchief, binnenland, nederland,  buitenland, filmrecensies, boeken, weer, de volkskrant, economie, films, uitgaan, kunst, achtergronden, dossiers, ombudsman, peiling, discussie, forum, nieuwsarchief, nieuwe media, Den Haag, binnenland, nederland, nieuws, kranten, buitenland, weer, de volkskrant, De Volkskrant, economie, discussie, forum, nieuwsarchief, nieuwe media, Den Haag, kunst, achtergronden, dossiers, ombudsman, peiling, filmrecensies, boeken, films, uitgaan" />

Yek, alsof ik ga Googelen voor "peiling", of "weer" en dan bij de VK wil uitkomen? Redelijk old skool poging tot SEO. Maar lieve volkskrant, Google gebruikt de meta tag "keyword" helemaal niet. En veel andere search engines ook niet meer, rumour is dat het zelfs negatief werkt.

Even kijken? Google voor bovenstaande keywords en je vindt geen volkskrant, wel 4 hits! Vier hits, van sites die de keywords wel indexeren. Maar dus geen Volkskrant en dus geen zin om dergelijke keywords op te nemen.

OSCMS on the Oreilly Radar

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 16:13:56 +0200

The success of the OMCMS summit is on O'Reilly's Radar as well. Read the article to find out how "traditional journalists" (hey, arent the middlemen as well? ) write about the story.