Bas van den Beld
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Professional Summary
I am the owner of Stateofsearch.com, a website on which myself and some other bloggers try to look at the next step in search. I am also the owner of NetTraject, a Dutch company that advises on international search matters and provides training in search engine marketing and project management. I am also founder of Searchcowboys.
I am a regular speaker on different marketing and search events. Finally I am the host of several podcasts, including a weekly show on a WebmasterRadio.FM.
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Bas van den Beld posted a blog entry 1 hour ago
State of Search radioshow – episode 24: Infographic ethics, eyetracking and a job in robots.txt
Bas and Roy returned with two this week and got into an interesting discussion with each other and the chatroom, about the ethics of an infographic about the Pakistan floods lead to a discussion with the chatroom about good and bad linkbait. Also a new eyetracking study on User behavior in SERPs... more »
Bas van den Beld posted a blog entry 1 day ago
The Need for Speed in Site Performance and CRO: Time is Money!
A few weeks ago I blogged on the need for speed and enabling http compression within IIS and Apache. There have been recent posts on how http compression and crawl rate are related and how speed is now a ranking factor, albeit a small one. While crawl speed is important the effect of site speed... more »
Bas van den Beld posted a blog entry 2 days ago
New changes could mean massive changes for SEO
Its been quite a month for search, including significant changes to the search engines pages, as well as a number of noticable acquisitions for the mighty search behemoth that is Google. In particular Google’s recent acquisition trail would tend to suggest very much a focus on search and... more »
Bas van den Beld posted a blog entry 3 days ago
The Definitive Guide to Image Search Optimisation
Last week Jeroen van Eck and Bill Slawski lamented the lack of a solid guide to image search optimisation. Bill threw down the gauntlet, and I picked it up. Here#8217;s my Definitive Guide to Image Search Optimisation. First, what do we mean with image search? Simply put it#8217;s the vertical... more »
Bas van den Beld posted a blog entry 3 days ago
State of Search news roundup – episode 6: Google realtime, Facebook killings, lawsuits and a job in the robots.txt
As every week we bring you news on State of Search, in a video and podcast! This week in episode six we look at Google Realtime search, Facebook killings, people suing and finding a SEO through a robots.txt. Links to the related stories and a podcast download can be found below the video. Enjoy and... more »
Bas van den Beld posted a blog entry Aug 29, 2010
Google’s acquisitions (infographic)
I#8217;ve been thinking about what would be a nice infographic to make, one which actually had some use, next to getting the link attention for which many of them were made. One I did think of is an overview of all the Google acquisitions, since Google is currently buying more than a company a... more »
