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Hello World, Here’s Tim!

I’m very blessed and proud to announce the birth of my son, Tim. My wife gave birth to Tim on New Year’s Day at 22:05. All though Tim arrived pretty early (week 34), he’s doing very well and already charming all the nurses. My wife is recovering after a very intense delivery, but is doing [...]

Tips on updating my weblog

I’ve decided to pay more attention to my weblog. So the last days I’ve spend quite some time on updating my Wordpress installation to the latest version, added more plugins, created connection to HelloTxt, Friendfeed, Facebook, etc..
From now on all my blogposts, tweets, Flickr additions and more should be updated automatically. From this point on [...]

SMX London – An event to remember

The second edition of SMX London took place this Tuesday and Wednesday at the New Connaught Rooms in the beautiful Covent Garden area. After already attending last year, this year was special because I made my first appearence in speaking at this event.
The sessions I spoke were International SEO (day 1) and Local Search & [...]

The importance of branding in search

Last week I was reading an article by Aaron Wall on the importance of branding in Search Engine Marketing. Over the last couple of years I’ve seen many examples of companies which could do search advertising with a decent Cost Per Order mostly because clicks on their brand name caused cheap conversions.
The best example of [...]

Speaking at SMX London 2008

I want to let you know that I’ll be speaking at the SMX London 4 & 5 November at the New Connaught Rooms, Covent Garden. Together with lots of great minds in the Search industry, I’m pretty sure we’ll have a great and inspirational conference. I already attended last year’s SMX in London and was overwhelmed by the [...]

Holiday at Texel

This year we decided to stay in the Netherlands on our holiday. Since we don’t want to spend all time at home (behind my Mac), we’ve booked a nice hotel in De Koog at Texel. The photo you see next to this post kind of describes what Texel is about.
Great nature and nice picturesque villages. [...]

Over 1 trillion webpages and counting (by billions a day)…

Google today announced that their web spider Googlebot has indexed over 1 trillion (1,000,000,000,000, I had to copy this from he Google website, since I didn’t know how much it in fact was) and that this number is still increasing by billion’s a day.
It was only 1990 when the internet really got shaped as we [...]

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