A Radically New Concept in Keyword Research
By Hamlet Batista at March 12, 2008 | 12:41 am | 16 Comments
SEO expert and blogger Donna Fontenot recently honored me with a positive review of my recently launched software, RankSense. I must admit that I was not born a salesman and I detest hype and hyperbole, so it feels great when my peers see the value in what I am trying to bring to the market.
Categotries : Blog , Keyword Research , SEO Technology
Writing for People (and Search Engines): How to improve click-through rates for organic listings
By Hamlet Batista at January 15, 2008 | 6:46 pm | 16 Comments
Another new year has come and many of us are still analyzing the balance of successes and failures of the previous one. It is definitely a useful chore. I am happy to count this blog as one of my successes. It was humbling to see it included in SearchEngineLand’s blogroll and nominated for Best SEO
Categotries : Blog , On-page SEO
A detailed look at what can (and can’t) be automated in SEO
By Hamlet Batista at September 26, 2007 | 12:33 am | 14 Comments
In my post about SEO automation, SEO expert Halfdeck expressed concern about the possibility of customers preferring a sophisticated SEO tool over a highly-trained SEO professional. I am sure many of my peers had the same thought running through their heads when they saw my post on Sphinn. The post even made it to the
Categotries : Blog , SEO Technology
SEO can be automated!
By Hamlet Batista at September 18, 2007 | 2:15 pm | 17 Comments
… partially Loren Baker has asked a thought-provoking question: “Can SEO be automated?” Coincidentally he asks the question just a day after we released a product at TechCrunch40 with just such a goal. It seems that the folks at Commerce360 are working to build a product similar to our RankSense. There is a fundamental difference
Categotries : Blog , On-page SEO
LinkingHood v0.2 – Find all your supplemental pages with ease
By Hamlet Batista at August 3, 2007 | 12:05 pm | 1 Comments
As it is well known by now, Google decided to remove the supplemental label from pages it adds to its supplemental index. That is unfortunate because pages that are labeled this way need some “link lovin’.” How are we going to give those pages the love they need if we are not able to identify
Categotries : Blog , Technical SEO
LongTailMiner v0.1 alpha — find invisible Long Tail keywords
By Hamlet Batista at May 31, 2007 | 3:54 pm | 6 Comments
I’m really enjoying this blogging thing! Every comment I am getting from my readers is a new idea that I feel rushed to put into practice. My reader, Andrea, mentioned she parses log files to mine for keywords as well. That is an excellent idea. I decided to put that idea into code and here
Categotries : Blog , Keyword Research , Technical SEO
LinkingHood v0.1 alpha — Improve your PageRank distribution
By Hamlet Batista at May 30, 2007 | 11:57 pm | 7 Comments
As I promised to one of my readers, here is the first version of the code to mine log files for linking relationship information. I named it LinkingHood as the intention is to take link juice from the rich to give to the poor linking sites. I wrote it in Python for clarity ( I
Categotries : Blog , Link Building , Technical SEO
The power of custom built software
By Hamlet Batista at May 26, 2007 | 12:14 am | 0 Comment
One of the key things that helped me move quickly to super affiliate — I started earning 5 figures per month after six months — was the fact that I knew how to create scripts and systems to help me do the repetitive stuff. I usually did everything manually first, and once I could see
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