Surprise, but no surprise. Google finally has confirmed the Google Mayday update. At Google I/O, Matt Cutts confirmed that Google has changed the search algorithm. The new algorithm "looks for higher quality sites to surface for long tail queries"......

As we all probably know by now, Google is about to kick Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 to the curbs. Following a whole bunch of other companies, Google’s explanation is simple: old browsers do not support advanced and current techniqu......

Study shows: Dutch SME’s increasing search budget to over € 250 million in 2010 If you deal with customers in the Netherlands, or have plans to enter the Dutch market short term, then read on. A study, recently done by Indenty, a Dut......

Google published a lot of news and updates lately. One even more spectacular than the other. What to think of Google Wave? Or Google Voice? Anyway, a few of the latest updates are interesting, because of the fact they mainly focus on the element '......

Normally I like to write long extensive articles. I like to write about things in search engine land I come across with and how I feel about it. Rewriting quality information is good, and adding more (personal) value to it even better. But not th......

Ah, linkbuilding. The biggest problem child in SEO land. Everybody knows how we should do it, but nobody ever tells how you really get those links. Sure, its about the conversation; about getting to know the person behind the website that has that......

Almost everyone who's ever used Google for his or her search quest has seen them: the radio buttons below the search box to narrow down the search results to country level or a specific language. Research (Dutch) done by Andre Scholten, shows us t......

As we all know, there has been alot going on in social media and search land. Facebook just bought Friendfeed, Google just lauched social gadgets for iGoogle, Yahoo is teaming up with Microsoft. And Twitter? Well, Twitter still is Twitter. And tha......

This week Google announced that they are rewriting the infrastructure of Google's search engine, called Caffeine for now. The update will have a strong focus on renewing the crawling, indexing and ranking process, and will only have a small impact......

Are you having problems getting good rankings in the search engines? If so, you might want to read the article about crawling and indexing over at Google's official blog. In the article they state that "many questions about website architecture, ......

After all the glory and passion last week about Google Wave, Google also is still working on a few smaller projects, definitely worth mentioning. Yesterday, Google posted a new topic about a new plugin they have written for Firefox. The plugin, ca......

Beginning June 4th, all gloves are coming off when it comes to bidding on Trademarked keywords by Adwords advertisers. All gloves? No, not really. The European market still has protection on this topic. Google has released a list of countries and ......

Google is currently testing the presentation of the search results with a small number of users. Along with this both the graphical presentation as the text per search result is thoroughly revised. With this it is possible to restrict the outcome ......

Normally I tend to write huge articles and posts. It is in my nature to write and write and write, and having problems to create a good ending, as there is so much to write about. But not this post (well, actually I do). I want to share my thought......

[Editor]Last week we announced Dennis Sievers as one of the new bloggers at Searchcowboys. Dennis is a loyal Searchcowboysfan and is an SEO specialist from the Netherlands. He works for Gladior as a product manager, the same function he has at Ind......