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Continuous Optimization Visualized by busy city skyline at night

Continuous Optimization is a paradigm I used and developed over the years as entrepreneur, team lead and consultant. It’s combining concepts from software development like “Agile”, with “common-sense” and some “best-practises” I learned over the time. In this post I want to share this mental framework with my readers as it is helping me to continuously optimize and grow my business and the business of my clients…

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The Silicon Valley is producing new job descriptions like nothing! But one is certainly missing. In this article I define a new job role which I call – Traffic Hacker – this is a definition of a technical online marketing specialist, every commercial websites needs…

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In the last 10 Years I compiled a comprehensive list of more than 5 million unique User-Agents together with the date of their first occurrence. This list is probably the largest ever made available to the general public. In this FAQ I answer some of the most common questions on this highly specialized topic.

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When planning a Business-Intelligence strategy, most companies focus on technology: what database types to use, which ETL software, SAS suites, and cloud storage to set up. In the last 10 years, while working as a data driven SEO, I’ve seen many BI strategies fail and only…

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Why should you care about your Bounce Rate? In this article I will explain anything worth knowing about one of the most popular but generally misunderstood metrics in web analytics. How is it calculated and is it a SEO relevant feature…

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Search-Engine Optimization (SEO) is a field surrounded by many misconceptions. This article will debunk some of the most common myths and explain some reasons for this. First …