Posts by Bas van den Beld

Bas van den Beld is a speaker, trainer and online marketing strategist. Bas is the owner of Stateofsearch.com. -- You can hire Bas to speak, train or consult. -- More articles and bio from Bas van den Beld

A summer interview with… Stephen Pavlovich: “Persuade the visitor”

There are many great search-experts out there. We decided we wanted to give some extra attention to some of them. Therefore we will be interviewing some of these experts. During the entire summer you will be served with short interviews with influential people in the industry. You will be seeing interviews with the likes of Joost de Valk, Marcus Tandler, Chris Sherman, Mike Grehan and Danny Sullivan, and off course our bloggers! Be aware that some interviews will be published in the newsletter!

Today: a conversion expert, he who knows what we all want, conversion: Stephen Pavlovich
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A summer interview with… Marcus Tandler (@mediadonis): “Infographics – they work pretty well these days”

There are many great search-experts out there. We decided we wanted to give some extra attention to some of them. Therefore we will be interviewing some of these experts. During the entire summer you will be served with short interviews with influential people in the industry. You will be seeing interviews with the likes of Joost de Valk, Marcus Tandler, Chris Sherman, Mike Grehan and Danny Sullivan, and off course our bloggers! Be aware that some interviews will be published in the newsletter!
Today: One of Europe’s finest and definitely German’s hottest and hippest SEO: Marcus Tandler
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A summer interview with… Jonathan Allen (@jc1000000): “SEO strategies are finally on the boardroom agenda”

There are many great search-experts out there. We decided we wanted to give some extra attention to some of them. Therefore we will be interviewing some of these experts. During the entire summer you will be served with short interviews with influential people in the industry. You will be seeing interviews with the likes of Joost de Valk, Marcus Tandler, Chris Sherman, Mike Grehan and Danny Sullivan, and off course our bloggers! Be aware that some interviews will be published in the newsletter! Today: someone who is making a career for himself pretty fast: SEW chief editor Jonathan Allen

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A summer interview with… Jeroen van Eck (@jvaneck): “Don’t fixate on numbers”

There are many great search-experts out there. We decided we wanted to give some extra attention to some of them. Therefore we will be interviewing some of these experts. During the entire summer you will be served with short interviews with influential people in the industry. You will be seeing interviews with the likes of Joost de Valk, Marcus Tandler, Chris Sherman, Mike Grehan and Danny Sullivan, and off course our bloggers! Be aware that some interviews will be published in the newsletter!

Today: Its time for ‘one of our own’ again: our blogger Jeroen van Eck.
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A summer interview with… Mike Grehan (@mikegrehan): “the most interesting time to be involved in the industry”

There are many great search-experts out there. We decided we wanted to give some extra attention to some of them. Therefore we will be interviewing some of these experts. During the entire summer you will be served with short interviews with influential people in the industry. You will be seeing interviews with the likes of Joost de Valk, Marcus Tandler, Chris Sherman, Mike Grehan and Danny Sullivan, and off course our bloggers! Be aware that some interviews will be published in the newsletter!

Today: One of the Godfathers in search and a man I appreciate highly: Mike Grehan.
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A summer interview with… Rishi Lakhani (@rishil): “Stop looking at SEO as a crack addiction”

There are many great search-experts out there. We decided we wanted to give some extra attention to some of them. Therefore we will be interviewing some of these experts. During the entire summer you will be served with short interviews with influential people in the industry. You will be seeing interviews with the likes of Joost de Valk, Marcus Tandler, Chris Sherman, Mike Grehan and Danny Sullivan, and off course our bloggers! Be aware that some interviews will be published in the newsletter!

Today: One of the hard cores in the business, and someone who should be blogging here: Rishi Lakhani
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A summer interview with… Lisa Myers (@lisadmyers): “I’m “baking” a baby”

There are many great search-experts out there. We decided we wanted to give some extra attention to some of them. Therefore we will be interviewing some of these experts. During the entire summer you will be served with short interviews with influential people in the industry. You will be seeing interviews with the likes of Joost de Valk, Marcus Tandler, Chris Sherman, Mike Grehan and Danny Sullivan, and off course our bloggers! Be aware that some interviews will be published in the newsletter!

Today: the co-founder of this blog: Lisa Myers.
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A summer interview with… Rand Fishkin (@randfish): “Double check the most linked-to pages”

There are many great search-experts out there. We decided we wanted to give some extra attention to some of them. Therefore we will be interviewing some of these experts. During the entire summer you will be served with short interviews with influential people in the industry. You will be seeing interviews with the likes of Joost de Valk, Marcus Tandler, Chris Sherman, Mike Grehan and Danny Sullivan, and off course our bloggers! Be aware that some interviews will be published in the newsletter!
Today: The guy who seems to be everywhere in the world at the same time: Rand Fishkin.
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A summer interview with… Greg Jarboe (@gregjarboe): “Conduct a search on YouTube”

There are many great search-experts out there. We decided we wanted to give some extra attention to some of them. Therefore we will be interviewing some of these experts. During the entire summer you will be served with short interviews with influential people in the industry. You will be seeing interviews with the likes of Joost de Valk, Marcus Tandler, Chris Sherman, Mike Grehan and Danny Sullivan, and off course our bloggers! Be aware that some interviews will be published in the newsletter!

Today: One of the (or the?) biggest online video experts out there: mr Greg Jarboe of SEO PR.
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A summer interview with… Danny Sullivan (@dannysullivan): “Learning to surf”

There are many great search-experts out there. We decided we wanted to give some extra attention to some of them. Therefore we will be interviewing some of these experts. During the entire summer you will be served with short interviews with influential people in the industry. You will be seeing interviews with the likes of Joost de Valk, Marcus Tandler, Chris Sherman, Mike Grehan and Danny Sullivan, and off course our bloggers! Be aware that some interviews will be published in the newsletter!

Today: someone who has been an example for me since the beginning, a legend for me: Danny Sullivan, chief editor of Searchengineland.
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State of Search radioshow – episode 17: Twitter automation with @seoidiot Paul Madden

Not a lot of search in this weeks show but a huge amount of information on automating Twitter and spam. Bas and Roy talked to Paul Madden, aka SEOidiot. Paul is an expert on automation and talked about how to automated, when to automate and the difference between automation and spam. The good and the bad were discussed where Paul gave useful tips on how to recognize spam accounts. A very interesting show to be listening to!

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Cutts says: don’t use nofollow within your site

There is always a lot of discussion on using nofollow within your site for Pagerank Sculpting purposes. Matt Cutts now talked about it in his video responses. He says: let it flow naturally. He even thinks it doesn’t hurt to have the login page in the search results. I disagree with him on that one. Not for search purposes, but for conversion purposes. Check out what Matt said and tell me what you think.